Former WWE Star Reveals William Regal’s Early Interest in NXT Star

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A former WWE star has revealed that William Regal was interested in a current NXT star from an early age, though the father had other ideas.

Bull Buchanan spoke about William Regal’s interest in his son, Brooks Jensen, when they met at an EVOLVE seminar.

Speaking on the Insiders Edge podcast, Buchanan explained:

“Ben (Brooks Jensen) has just been in love with this business since he was a little kid. He was kind of like me I guess. I just kind of fell in love with it.

“So, all these years, the indie shows and stuff like that, he’s always went with me and at seven or eight years old, he was trying to help put up chairs at the indie shows I would go to.

“He would try to help set up the ring. He went from that to, I think, when he was 13 or 14, he approached me and asked me if I would train him and I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, we’ll train you as a referee and we’ll see how you do’ and I made him referee for about a year and while he was refereeing, I would take him in the ring and show him a little bit here and there and I trained him and he has that first match actually at 16 and he did most of it himself, he got himself booked.

“I made him go out and contact promoters, I made him do it all, kind of grassroots kind of thing.”

It was clear to Buchanan that the future Brooks Jensen definitely wanted to be involved in the business, which is how we get to the EVOLVE seminar, with Buchanan explaining:

“He had himself booked every weekend and I think it was 2019, EVOLVE had a show in Atlanta and William Regal was doing a seminar beforehand and it was all him. He contacted him.

“He was working at a small feed mill over in (a) town we live in, part-time job after school and he saved up his money, I think it was $200, paid to go to the seminar and I just kind of hung out.

“Of course, I wanted to see how he did. But while he was in the ring, William Regal came over because we had known each other for a long time and always had a good relationship so we sat and talked and he asked me, you know, ‘Would he be interested in coming down there?’ ‘I’m sure he would.’”

Buchanan would reveal his vision for the future of his son, however, stating:

“But, really my idea was for him was continue to work the indies and maybe get him over to Japan to spend a few months in a dojo there.

“I wanted him to be well-rounded. I really kind of saw him maybe getting a shot with ROH or IMPACT or something smaller to kind of prepare him for WWE.

“But, (2020), that’s when COVID hit and pretty much just threw a monkey wrench into everything.

“But, Regal actually contacted me in November and said, ‘Hey, we’d like to bring Ben in. I know you wanted him to get some experience and go to Japan’ but I think at the time, his son was over in Japan, they weren’t doing any more visas.

“Everything was kind of shut down so he said, ‘We’ll bring him in’ and I said, ‘Well, you know, give him a call. See what he says. I wish I knew what the answer would be’ and he went down and had the tryout.

“I guess the rest is history. He moved down there in late August and by early September, he was on TV and they’ve been running ever since.”

Jensen signed with WWE in August 2021 and would make his in-ring debut alongside Josh Briggs on the September 14 episode of WWE NXT 2.0.

Briggs & Jensen would be the last champions to hold the NXT UK Tag Team Championship.

Transcript from Post Wrestling.

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