In this WrestleTalk News, William Regal speaks on god just so many things, including some
very serious health scares, Cody Rhodes and WWE have a top secret plan, Tempest’s review
of NXT 2.0 and more.
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William Regal appeared on the Talk Is Jericho podcast, an episode that was released just
today, where he spoke about oh so many things across his illustrious career, including so,
many, health scares and conditions.
“the last time my family were all together was 2018 for Christmas, and I was in hospital
for eight weeks.
I was given at one point 24 hours to live, I had sepsis in my leg, they were gonna cut
my leg off.”
“And since 1998, I got Pericarditis…I know I’d been wrestling with a broken neck
since 1993.
From the first year I came in America, the firs time I won the WCW Television Title,
I was on with Ricky Steamboat, I’m 25 years old, and you can actually watch this.
The finish is me giving him a German Suplex…I land and you can see it clear as day if you
watch this right now – you see my neck…
my head hits, and my neck just goes to the side, and it went ‘crack’.”
“Once I tore my meniscus in my right leg, but the next night I’m on with Bryan.
They were going, ‘No you can’t wrestle, you can’t wrestle’.
I said, ‘No, I wanna put him over” “He (Dr Maroon) went, ‘I’ve only seen
something as bad as this before, and that person was already in a wheelchair.
I don’t know how you’re walking’.
And I’m going, ‘Nah, I was just bridging the other day, I do a three-minute bridge
every day with my nose touching on the mat.
That’s what I keep doing’.
He said, ‘I don’t know what I’m looking at’.”
Please, Mr. Regal.
Please take care of yourself.
I guess this makes the whole vibe of his debut promo on Dynamite make a lot more sense.
There’s tons more on the episode, including his thoughts on NXT, feuds and working with
Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, a cancelled programme with Kurt Angle and more.
Make sure to check out wrestletalk.com for more, and a big thank you to Liam from wrestletalk.com
for scouring through the episode and finding these quotes for me.
I know the whole Cody Rhodes to WWE story has kind of gone off the boil at this point,
especially after Monday night’s Raw episode where he still didn’t show up, but there’s
more news on his status, so talk more about Cody Rhodes we must!
After Cody and Brandi Rhodes left AEW, Cody was definitely going to WWE, until he wasn’t,
but then he was again!
And then he wasn’t…but then he was again!
And now there’s a new report to say…he’s still going!
A new report from Ringside News, pinch of salt required, notes that the WWE writing
team aren’t being told anything about the Cody situation, with one source on the creative
team mentioning “whatever his deal is, it’s being kept ‘up above and secret’ for now”.
The rumoured and reported match for a while has been Cody Rhodes vs Seth Rollins, and
with Seth not being given a direction for the most stupendous etc. show for now, losing
to Kevin Owens on Raw for the right to interview Stone Cold, christ, it seems his path is being
left deliberately open in case WWE want to pursue it.
But do we have any more reports of Cody definitely maybe having a WrestleMania match?
We do?
Oh, that was a joke, but ok.
Who am I talking to?
Wait, this is pre-recorded?
I’m reading off a teleprompter right now?
I wrote this script?
Dave Meltzer has weighed in with his latest report to say that Cody Rhodes is definitely
wrestling at WrestleMania.
Unless something changes.
Which it might.
“Everyone there is (under that impression).
The impression is that Cody Rhdoes and Seth Rollins is the WrestleMania match.
He’s coming.
I mean, that’s it, he’s coming, he’s wrestling Seth at WrestleMania, unless something
changes.”
Cody Rhodes definitely to WrestleMania unless something changes
in
which case it’s a maybe confirmed!
And now hot tag to Tempest for his review
of
last night’s NXT 2.0!