WWE legend expresses gratitude towards ‘Blackpool’ after 42 years

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“It’s 42 years this week that I left home and moved to Blackpool to became an apprentice Wrestler for World Wide Wrestling Promotions Of Blackpool. For the next two years I spoke when spoken to, put up rings for 400 + shows, wrestled, trained how I was told, carried the older wrestlers bags and fetched the teas and sandwiches. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Thank you to everyone that was a part of that time. And thank you to @visitBlackpool as everything that’s been good in my life started with living there for the next 10 years,” wrote William Regal.

Regal credits Blackpool with the foundation of everything good in his life. He lived there for a decade, building the base for an illustrious career that spanned the UK, WCW, WWE, and later AEW, where he formed the Blackpool Combat Club.

WWE legend William Regal wrestled in New Delhi, India, back in 1992

William Regal shared a rare picture of a wrestling show held on March 11, 1992, in New Delhi, India.

He posted a promotional poster for the Dara Singh Gold Cup Freestyle Wrestling event in New Delhi on X. As a part of the main event in Dr. Ambedkar Stadium, ‘Steve Regal’ was against India’s Kartar Singh.

An Olympian and Asian Games champion, Kartar was one of India’s most respected wrestlers who later served in a senior police position in Punjab. Regal has claimed he won the match during his international tour.

The other bouts in there mostly featured all-Indian wrestlers, with the exception of Skul Murphy from Germany and Muhammad Naseer from Pakistan.

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