William Regal Says Bryan Danielson Carried Him For 17 Minutes In One Of His Last Matches

Wiliam Regal made his debut during the AEW Revolution pay-per-view. He appeared after Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley’s match and helped them form a tag team. Regal revealed how Danielson once carried him in one of his last matches as well.

William Regal has competed all over the world and worked with numerous top talents throughout his career. This includes Bryan Danielson, whom he helped hone his craft to perfection.

While speaking on Talk Is Jericho, William Regal talked about squaring off against Bryan Danielson during a match on WWE Superstars in Liverpool, England back in 2011. Regal recalled how Danielson carried him for 17 minutes in the match, which turned out to be one of Regal’s last matches.

“I did a match with Bryan, it was when I wasn’t wrestling. We did a match on Superstars, we wrestled each other for two weeks in Europe, I couldn’t believe I was getting two weeks with Bryan. We tore it up. The night before TV, we were in Birmingham, he gave me a dropkick in the corner and my good knee, I tore the meniscus in it. I knew I was on with him the next day. I was gonna go out and I thought it was it.

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I tore my meniscus in my right leg, but the next night, I’m on with Bryan and they’re like, ‘You can’t wrestle,’ I said, ‘No, I want to put him over.’ He’s the person who stuck around me and listened to all my nonsense. I’ve sent him to places and put good words in. If there’s one person I want to have my last match with, it’s him. If you watch that match, you’ll see me walk to the ring and they played a rib on me and played my ‘Man’s Man’ music and I’m glad. They had to help me into the building that day, I couldn’t walk. It’s 17 minutes of him carrying me because I can’t walk. He did a masterful job. He did stuff on my leg without bending it.

It looked like he bent my leg around the corner post and it never bent. We came out and I was happy, I put him over. I said, ‘Somebody is going to pay attention to this because this lad is something special.’ They already were (paying attention). I thought that was it. I came back and Mr. McMahon was there. I didn’t know he watched Superstars. He was right there, we shook hands, Bryan walked off and he went, ‘Thank you very much, that was a proper wrestling match. That lad is going to make a good villain isn’t he?’ People used to cheer me (in England), so they were booing him and Bryan turned it up. Mr. McMahon said, ‘he’s going to make a good villain.’ I don’t know if Bryan even knows that, but two months later he started turning him villain. I was really happy, ‘I had done that for him.'”

William Regal is currently managing Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley as the two are now a formidable tag team. We’ll have to see how the two will fare under Regal’s tutelage.

h/t Fightful

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