Booker T and William Regal have both had incredible careers in their own right, but it seems that their personal relationship definitely got off to a rocky start at the beginning.
During a recent episode of the Notsam Wrestling Podcast Booker T discussed the first time he met William Regal, and he revealed that there was animosity between them from the very beginning.
“The first time I met Regal, we almost got into a fight, I swear, the first time. I remember so vividly, it was Main Event gym, Sting and Lex Luger had a gym and my brother and I walk in with Sid Vicious and Regal is walking out the door. I look at Regal, and he looks at me and we look like we want to kill each other.
“From that point on, we really didn’t have a great relationship, we wasn’t friends, we wasn’t pals, we wasn’t buddies or anything like that. Then, all of a sudden as King Booker we are working together. Man, we had one of the greatest runs ever as far as King of the Ring goes, so you know, he’s a good friend of mine, William Regal now.”
The Hall of Famer went on to say that he was “very braggadocios” backstage while talking about his in-ring ability, and the way that he presented himself did not go over well with Regal.
“I would say it every time, ‘top that, go and top that.’ I would push the guys in the locker room to work as hard as they could when I was working. I was very braggadocios, William Regal used to want to kill me. I would be in the locker room, one of the youngest guys in there and I would say, ‘I am one of the top five workers in the world.’ That was my slogan, ‘I am one of the top five workers in the world.’ In the locker room, as loud as I could.”
Luckily for Booker T and William Regal it seems that everything turned out ok.
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