William Regal Says He Had ‘Different Plan That Never Transpired’ In AEW

Former AEW star and current WWE name William Regal has spoken about the AEW plans that didn’t quite end up coming to fruition.

Regal joined AEW at the company’s Revolution event in March 2022, before becoming the manager of the Blackpool Combat Club stable featuring Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta and Claudio Castagnoli.

He later left AEW in December 2022, so that he could return to WWE to be with his son, who features on the company’s NXT brand as Charlie Dempsey.

Speaking on Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip, in an interview that was recorded a few weeks ago, Regal spoke about his unrealised plans in AEW:

“As you know, I left one company, I’ve gone to another, it’s like a blink of an eye, I start back with WWE again and it’s like nothing has ever happened and nothing has changed in the slightest. It’s weird.

“Anybody that is listening that’s young, I know you don’t like listening to older people; make the most of every second you have on this earth. It really is, you get to a certain age and time goes so quickly and we waste a lot of it.

“Sometimes you think, ‘I’m going to make the most of it.’ Even trying to make the most of it, you end up not making as much of it as you can and it’s gone.

“I just had a wonderful seven or eight months with a real good group of my friends, and boom, it’s gone in the blink of an eye. I haven’t even caught up with any of the stuff we’ve done because it’s just the way it is.

“If you’re into the wrestling, it was a bit convoluted and finished off the way it finished off where I’ve been in AEW, but I’m back with the WWE by the time you hear this.

“I’ve had people asking me to do things. There is a lot that happened this year and a lot of things that made me go, ‘I’m quite happy being not in the limelight.’ I have been for many years.

“I had my time and I had a nice little gig with NXT for a long time where I just showed up occasionally, and then in the pandemic, I was used a lot more because we had to go into survival mode and there were certain characters and it changed things a little bit. I said, ‘Don’t use me as much, if you don’t mind, it should be about the talent, not about me.’

“This (interview) will be the last thing I’m doing. Unless WWE asks me to do something as myself, I’m doing nothing else about anything or wrestling for at least a year.

“I’m happy with that. That was one of the things, in the last months of AEW, it was getting far too much about me. It should have been about the talent I was with, not about me.

“I’m quite happy being in the background. All it is is grief. I’ve had my run. I couldn’t have had a better last few months as far as TV and doing that, but I didn’t go there with that intention.

“The intention was to do something different, and it started off the way it did, but I didn’t expect it to end up being this thing that it was for the last seven months where I just became talent.

“I went there with a different plan because I was asked to go there to help out in a different capacity, and that never transpired. Okay, I’m done.”

Regal now serves as WWE’s Vice President of Global Talent Development. Shawn Michaels is notably the Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative.

According to reports, Regal will not be able to appear in WWE in an on-screen capacity until 2024.

Transcription courtesy of Fightful.

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