[1993-01-30-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Steven Regal

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This is Regal's U.S. debut! Watts had the idea to bring him in as a tough guy babyface, which is interesting.

 

If you look at who Watts brought in after getting past some retreads early on -- Regal, Benoit, Scorpio, Van Dam -- and look at the guys already around who were starting to get pushed harder -- Austin, Pillman, Douglas, Cactus -- this is a guy who didn't come in knowing who the best young talents were, but he figured it out quickly. He had a terrible last part of 1992, but with him bringing in guys like this and luring Flair back, I'm curious what would have happened with another 6-12 months of time. It may have suffered the same end fate, but he may have been able to rebuild.

[benj]

Short and to the point, neat to see the Regal tv debut.

[shoe]

It's is what it is.

[El-P]

I never knew Watts brought in Regal as a straight face. Odd to see. I agree things looked much better in early 1993, the TV was getting really good again.

[Kevin Ridge]

Regal isn't the full British type regal guy in this. WCW is the only place to be for him.

[PeteF3]

Regal's a humble babyface but he still isn't using his genuine accent. He doesn't have much to say yet, but this is an interesting footnote.

[WingedEagle]

Regal debuts! He's been in England for 9 years and debuts next week. It's a while until we see him in-ring.

[soup23]

Wow Regal is a young chap here. Funny to see him as a babyface too talking about the best talent in the world is in WCW.

[garretta]

Not much to say here, except that I'm looking forward to seeing Regal's metamorphosis.