Regal also revealed that he wrestled with a broken neck between 1993 and 2014 having suffered the injury in a match against Ricky Steamboat.
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There were rumours swirling around last week about AEW’s newest recruit William Regal’s health. Of course, while they seem to have been wildly exaggerated, Regal shed light on some of his health issues during his appearance on Talk is Jericho.
Speaking with his colleague, Chris Jericho, Regal said that once spent eight weeks in hospital after suffering sepsis in the leg. The Englishman was faced with the prospect of having his leg amputated and in a very scary incident was only given 24 hours to live.
“Once I was released, I went home two weeks before Christmas. The reason being, which we might get to, the last time my family were all together was 2018 for Christmas, and I was in hospital for eight weeks. I was given at one point 24 hours to live, I had sepsis in my leg, they were gonna cut my leg off. This is January 4, 2019. So, I insisted on going home for Christmas, because you know I’ve been through a lot. I had a hell of year 2018… sorry, it’s a bit, like, I usually just tell people, but now I’m sat with you and I’m comfortable, things hit you a little bit. 2018, you know I’ve had a lot of heart trouble at different times. And since 1998, I got Pericarditis, and Pericarditis is an inflammation of the sack around your heart, and what it does is scar that sack.”
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Regal also revealed that he wrestled with a broken neck between 1993 and 2014 having suffered the injury in a match against Ricky Steamboat.
“So I ended up having my neck done in 2014, that was the end of my wrestling career. In 2013, I wasn’t wrestling that much, I was winding down, doing a lot of commentary, whatever I was doing with NXT, which was all great. And I knew my time was… you know, I was beat up. I worked it out, if you take away the last few years of my career, take away when I say I started the first year, so go from 1994 to when I finished, apart from a year being out, a few times off. and I took very little time off with some major injuries, you just never never said anything, just didn’t do it, and a couple of suspensions, I wrestled solidly for a minimum of 150 days a year. Minimum, for 26 years. You (Jericho) were smart because you used to take a couple of years off every now and then… you had other… well I don’t have any other interests or anything else going on and it was always that thing that was drilled into me. I always thought, ‘If I can just get a 20 year career’, I was in wonderland”, said Regal.
