{"id":149754,"date":"2022-12-06T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pillman-jr-pushes-back-on-idea-aew-talent-didnt-appreciate-regal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:56:59","slug":"pillman-jr-pushes-back-on-idea-aew-talent-didnt-appreciate-regal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pillman-jr-pushes-back-on-idea-aew-talent-didnt-appreciate-regal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillman Jr. pushes back on idea AEW talent didn’t appreciate Regal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reporting on William Regal’s departure from AEW and return to WWE has come along with a significant number of takes about the how & why behind a pretty remarkable turn of events. <\/p>\n
While making his public-if-second hand comments about Regal’s experience with AEW management, EC3 also told Sportskeeda the talent under contract to Tony Khan wasn’t terribly interested in being coached from a veteran who’s spent the past decade scouting & developing WWE Superstars:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe’s too valuable to not be in a developmental system. And I know we can say ‘oh he’s there mentoring the people in AEW’, the thing is they are not listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Wrestling pundit and indie manager Justin LaBar basically summarized that on Twitter yesterday (Dec. 4), leading to an exchange with Brian Pillman, Jr. The second-generation manager didn’t exactly paint a picture of a locker room fighting for spots under Regal’s learning tree, but he did dispute the notion no one was interested in what the old villain had to offer.<\/p>\n
\n\nThis is not entirely true. There are several of us, myself included, who spent multiple hours before TV working with Regal and learning from him. Should there have been more? Maybe, but he and Danielson always had a solid audience around the ring before TV.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Brian Pillman Jr. (@FlyinBrianJr) December 5, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nI know you said \u201csome\u201d, I just didn’t want the narrative to be that he was just standing there preaching to the air. Some days there would be 10 guys out there soaking it in, some days it would just be me and wheeler and Lee. I did n’t mind when his attention was n’t spread as thin<\/p>\n
\u2014 Brian Pillman Jr. (@FlyinBrianJr) December 5, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n