History Wrestling / WilliamRegal

* WrestlingFamily: His son Bailey is also a wrestler under his real name.

* DoingItForTheArt: He allowed Wrestling/AntonioInoki to shoot choke him unconscious rather than submit as was originally agreed, because he believed it would make for a better finish.

* BadassBoast: From his duelling promo against Wrestling/{{MJF}}, when calling him out for having to use the Dynamite Diamond Ring to get cheap knockouts:

* {{Calvinball}}: ''WWE Backlash 2001''. Then-commissioner Regal versus Jericho in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Queensberry_Rules "Duchess of Queensbury"]] match. Jericho tries to pin Regal? Match is divided into two rounds, and round one just ended. Jericho gets a submission? No, submissions aren't allowed. [[spoiler:Regal]] won the match.

* BookEnds: His first and farewell promos in AEW had him being interviewed by Creator/TonySchiavone.

While William Regal was never a world champion, he has extensively trained several future world champions employed by WWE. [[Wrestling/TripleH You might]] [[Wrestling/CMPunk have heard]] [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson of them]]. Regal's final match came in 2013 against Wrestling/AntonioCesaro on NXT, after which he became the General Manager of the black and gold brand. After 9 years in the position he was released at the start of 2022 as part of WWE's ongoing attempts to scrub all traces of the former black-and-gold brand from NXT 2.0. He debuted for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling at ''Revolution 2022'', becoming the mastermind of the Wrestling/BlackpoolCombatClub.

* PowerTrio: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Regal's Ruthless Roundtable]] with Ezekiel Jackson and Vladimir Kozlov. The latter two had been having a contest to outdo each other on WWECW that was bound to end in violence until William Regal somehow convinced them to work for him instead. He later attempted to sell their services out to Chris Jericho, who was on the Raw brand at the time, before ECW general manager Tiffany put an end to it.

* DemotedToExtra: Is today hardly seen on TV, for a while he appeared on ''Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}}'' as the "match coordinator" and is now an announcer. He had a brief moment of spotlight when he got in the middle of Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}'s feud with Wrestling/TheBigShow. As of 2013-2014 though, his position as announcer at NXT is fairly formalized, serving as a regular announcer signature to the show in the same way Jim Ross is treated. As of the end of 2014, he's the onscreen General Manager for the NXT 'brand'.

* BourgeoisBumpkin: William Regal likes to present himself as an English nobleman, which was part of the motivation for his feud with Jamie Noble, who was proud of the trailer he came from and was trying to court an English Lady, Layla. Those who know the UK know Regal's blue collar roots from the first word they hear him speak though.

While William Regal was never a world champion, he has extensively trained several future world champions employed by WWE. [[Wrestling/TripleH You might]] [[Wrestling/CMPunk have heard]] [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson of them]]. Regal's final match came in 2013 against Wrestling/AntonioCesaro on NXT, after which he became the General Manager of the black and gold brand. After 9 years in the position he was released at the start of 2022 as part of WWE's ongoing attempts to scrub all traces of the former black-and-gold brand from NXT 2.0. He debuted for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling at ''Revolution 2022''.

While William Regal was never a world champion, he has extensively trained several future world champions currently employed by WWE. [[Wrestling/TripleH You might]] [[Wrestling/CMPunk have heard]] [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson of them]]. Regal's final match came in 2013 against Wrestling/AntonioCesaro on NXT, after which he became the General Manager of the black and gold brand. After 9 years in the position he was released at the start of 2022 as part of WWE's ongoing attempts to scrub all traces of the former black-and-gold brand from NXT 2.0. He debuted for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling at ''Revolution 2022''.

* VeteranInstructor: As previously mentioned, he is currently the single most experienced wrestler on the WWE payroll, with over 30 years in the business, and his main job these days is recruiting and training the new WWE talent (especially under the NXT brand). There's also the little factoid that he has had a hand in training many of the WWE's biggest, most tenured stars.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: While commonly perceived as one of the premiere "elder statesmen" of the wrestling business by the time he debuted in AEW at ''Revolution 2022,'' Regal was in fact only 53 years old at the time, only about 2 years older than Wrestling/ChrisJericho (who'd wrestled one of his best matches in years earlier that night) and ten years ''younger'' than Wrestling/{{Sting}} (who in his match shortly following Regal's debut had ''leaped off a balcony to splash an opponent through a stack of four tables''). However Regal would be the first to admit that he hasn't taken as good care of himself as those two men (in his debut promo on ''Dynamite'' he said that it would only be a few more years until he'd be reduced to being pushed around in a wheelchair), and while he doesn't look ''that'' old, his active in-ring days are definitely behind him.

While William Regal was never a world champion, he has extensively trained several future world champions currently employed by WWE. [[Wrestling/TripleH You might]] [[Wrestling/CMPunk have heard]] [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson of them]]. Regal's final match came in 2013 against Wrestling/AntonioCesaro on NXT, after which he became the General Manager of the black and gold brand. After 9 years in the position he was released at the start of 2022 as part of WWE's ongoing attempts to scrub all traces of the former black-and-gold brand from NXT 2.0.

* IncomingHam: '''''"WARGAMES!"'''''