William Regal Recalls Bryan Danielson Calling Him To Come To AEW & His Connection With Jon Moxley

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William Regal has recalled the call from Bryan Danielson that led to his arrival in All Elite Wrestling and his connection with Jon Moxley.

Appearing on AEW Unrestricted, the AEW star discussed coming to the company and Bryan Danielson calling him to convince him.

Regal said:

“I was checked out, Bryan called me, ‘that sounds like fun, exciting.’ I love being around young talent who want to do this. It turned into a job for me with my former employees. I had a great ten years being able to do that. A lot of other things, but that was the main thing, being around a group of talent. I would never like there to be a day where there isn’t a wrestling business. Although I’ve worked for other companies, I’ve never worked for a company, I work for wrestling because I would help anybody who is interested. I wouldn’t force myself, but if you come to me, I would hate to be at a time like when I was younger because there was no way to get into the wrestling business when I started. I never heard of a wrestling school until I came to America and you had to find a wrestler to get you in somehow or you were an amateur wrestler. Then you have to find a way and stay in it. I want there to be a wrestling business.”

William Regal continued on to discuss the original idea behind Bryan’s call, explaining his storyline with Jon Moxley and his past with the former AEW World Champion.

Regal explained:

“Bryan called me, sounded interesting, I start watching. All of a sudden, this is two weeks before I turned up, ‘Oh, it’s Bryan and Jon,’ somehow else who, from day one…it’s funny because the first day of the job, at my last job, I went down to Florida when it was FCW and I always watch what’s going on. I had seen Jon and seen him doing the promos. He had just got there and nobody knew who he was. I didn’t get him the gig there, I started doing that right after this day. The first day we turned up, he was sat in the corner, it was a showcase, people had a match and a promo, and whoever was running it at the time said, ‘is there anybody you’d like to see?’ and I said, ‘Can we see Jon Moxley please?’

There was a lot of people like, ‘Who?’ He just sat in the corner in his denim jacket. He slowly walked through the crowd and climbed in the ring and I’m thinking, ‘I hope he’s as good as I’ve seen him be because otherwise I’m gonna look pretty [dumb].’ He started, he had a one-minute promo, and within ten seconds I thought, ‘thank goodness for that, he’s as good as I thought he was.’ In 20 seconds, I’m looking around and everyone in the place was [in awe]. It crushed everybody’s spirits because whatever they had just done, this had done them out the water. I looked at Triple H and he went, ‘hmmm,’ meaning he got goosebumps. The following week, it used to take six months to get on TV by the time you got there, I had been doing commentary. We taped three shows, he was on the first show doing a promo, he was on the second show beating somebody in about two minutes and he was on the third show doing a promo and from then on he was on the main roster. We have that connection and while he was there, we had a lot of things go one, which no need to get into. There’s always been that connection.”

William Regal has formed the Blackpool Combat Club with Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley after his AEW debut at Revolution.

His two charges will be in action this Friday on AEW Rampage in singles competition. Moxley will face Wheeler Yuta, while Danielson will face Trent Baretta.

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