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The amount of time on Regal's contract and a potential return to WWE are among the unanswered questions.

Josh Nason
12 hours ago



One of wrestling's most interesting -- and unanswered -- stories currently is the future of William Regal.

In recent days, there has been speculation that Regal is returning to WWE in some kind of backstage/executive role given his past connection to WWE's Paul "Triple H" Levesque. That speculation caught social media fire after Levesque tweeted a montage of Regal saying "WarGames" on Saturday during Survivor Series:

At this point, Regal is believed to still be under AEW contract but the length of the deal is the main question which neither Regal or AEW's Tony Khan have publicly commented on.

In discussing the rumors Monday, our Dave Meltzer said Regal had said he had signed a three-year deal with AEW but that "something was going on." He also said there was some off-the-record information that he was given which he was not allowed to discuss.

Meltzer didn't have any new information on Wednesday's Wrestling Observer Radio following an AEW Dynamite that saw MJF take Regal out following the new AEW World Champion's in-ring promo. Regal was bloodied up in the mouth, stretchered out, and taken away in an ambulance which some took to mean he was being written off in storyline.

On Thursday, Fightful reported that talent believe Regal's contract could be up this month -- a topic speculated about during this past weekend's WrestleCade event.

After 22 years in the company, Regal was released by WWE in January and debuted for AEW at March's Revolution, eventually starting the Blackpool Combat Club. He turned on Jon Moxley at this month's Full Gear which led to MJF winning the title and on last week's Dynamite, Moxley confronted him and told him to leave.

While MJF gave the background for when Regal aligned with him during the aforementioned promo, there was still no explanation from Regal as to why he decided to turn on Moxley.

The 54-year-old Regal was a mainstay in WWE NXT for the better part of the last decade and had been the company's director of talent development and head of global recruiting during his time with WWE.

10 months seems like an odd amount of time for a contract.

You mean like the 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days of Lio Rush that strangely ended right after he dared calling Tiny out after the whole Swole drama?

Thelone wrote: ↑Dec 2nd, '22, 07:24 You mean like the 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days of Lio Rush that strangely ended right after he dared calling Tiny out after the whole Swole drama?

Yeah, but there has been no report of unhappiness on either Regal or Tony's part.

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Dec 2nd, '22, 10:29Yeah, but there has been no report of unhappiness on either Regal or Tony's part.

Oh I'm not saying there's some bad blood between the two or anything, more that Dub contracts mean about as much as WWE ones apparently. Also Regal is professional and smart enough to keep some potential frustration behind closed doors, but you know he thinks this is a shitshow and that he would have just waited for "the call" if he knew ahead of time that Vince was gonna be ousted so quickly.

Here, I think Trips really wants Regal back (he was more or less his right-hand man in NXT, also on a big re-hiring spree currently) and either they're trying to find an arrangement to make it happen or Regal has a clause in his contract that would free him somehow if WWE comes knocking.