[1993-06-12-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Steven Regal & Sir William

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Regal debuts with Bill Dundee as his sidekick, both repackaged with the aristocrat gimmick we've all grown to know and love. I'm not sure this could be any more stereotypical.

[Bix]

This is the promo with the reference to Americans drinking "cold tea," right?

[Loss]

Yes.

[Death From Above]

The Sir William thing makes me laugh. Jamie Dundee said his dad was working as a road agent anyway so he booked himself as Sir William so he could get paid twice.

 

If true, bravo Bill Dundee you wonderful carny.

[Strummer]

somewhat ashamed to admit I didn't realize it was Bill Dundee until I read it in PWI

 

it was the glasses!

[El-P]

Finally. White meat british babyface Steve Regal wasn't exactly exciting. "Marcus Bagwell ? It's sounds like a sickness !". Ah ! Dundee is great. Talk about getting a gimmick and being at home with it right away.

[Kevin Ridge]

It's fun to see Dundee in the role as Sir William and Regal immediately fits in with the gimmick. It almost doesn't make sense he wasn't doing this from the start.

[PeteF3]

A stereotypical-as-all-hell gimmick, but Regal fits into it. They're seriously trying to pretend Regal is a newcomer? Seeing Dundee in this setting after watching two and a half years' worth of the Superstar in Memphis is jarring, to say the least. Regal is upset that Schiavone is interviewing him and not his "friend" Lawrence Zbyszko, which is hilarious in hindsight. Regal wants Lady Di to stop pestering him with phone calls and then recites what an embarrassment the Royal Family are at the moment, and he has been tasked to show that the Brits are still the greatest people in the world.

 

Regal is trying but this gimmick still needs a lot of work. Eventually he'd incorporate his own touches into making it slightly more authentic, but here he's just reciting crap from a British Stereotypes 101 textbook and doing it rather awkwardly--tea crumpets queen Di hovel--there were Tugboat promos more subtle than this.

[soup23]

Foreshadowing of the Larry Z program already. This feels like an odd and dead gimmick on the surface especially with established Dundee in the role but they made it work well.

[garretta]

This may be stereotypical and cheesy as all get out, but these two make it work. I can tell that Dundee in particular is having the time of his life here. He most likely knew he was going back to Memphis eventually, but was taking this opportunity to freshen himself up and explore a new side of his wrestling personality. One can only be a Superstar in the kingdom of Lawler for so long, you know.

 

Regal lays it on a tad too thick, but he gets off some good lines, especially when he tells Dundee to tell Lady Di to stop pestering him. Tony plays straight man for these two and does it well; I can't wait to see what Mean Gene does with this setup once he gets to WCW.

 

It's a bit much to assume that we don't know that Steve Regal wasn't just on our TVs as a face two months ago, but compared to some of the other reckless assumptions WCW has made in the past and will continue to make in the future, this one's rather harmless. I can't wait to see more of these two.