AEW President Tony Khan responds to William Regal’s public warning about neck and head bumps
William Regal, who has been WWE’s vice-president of Global Talent Development in recent years, issued a warning to wrestlers that are taking bumps on their head and neck. Regal wrote the following via Twitter/X…
“Most of you doing this STUPID stuff aren’t going to listen to me, but hopefully a few will. Stop it now if you want a decent quality of life after wrestling, because that part of your life will be over before you know it.”
While speaking to The Mark Hoke Show, AEW President Tony Khan issued a response…
“Pro wrestlers are always taking hard-hitting, high-risk chances, and that’s one of the things that makes pro wrestling so exciting. But in AEW, we’ve been able to have all these great events and we’ve never had a career-ending injury like that from our wrestling.
And I don’t think that AEW is any different than any other wrestling promotion in the world, where the wrestlers want to do their very best. And sometimes a promotion will step in—and AEW and I have, at times, stepped in—and said, ‘I can’t do that. I don’t think that’s a good idea.’
And I don’t want to do that every day or in every match, but there are times where it comes up, and it’s okay.
I thought World’s End was a great show, and I thought everything about it was wonderful. And if anybody was talking about Kyle Fletcher versus Jon Moxley, that’s one of my favorite matches of all time.
And it’s all subjective.”