A tweeted clip featuring a spot from an indie show caught the eye of WWE’s William Regal, and Triple H’s point man for talent development & recruiting saw it as an opportunity to share a hard earned lesson.
Namely, getting dropped on your head will mess your neck up.
The video looks to be from Glory Pro Wrestling’s Fear of the Dark show on Sun., Nov. 11, and features Brody King being driven head first into the ring apron by Kevin Lee Davidson. King quote-tweeted it, and Regal responded...
I don’t like doing this as I know I propably wouldn’t of changed what I did in my career. I’m also someone who knew what I was getting into and don’t complain about injuries or want any pity. But this stuff will lead to the following ...... https://t.co/I4lSfp4jMZ
— William Regal (@RealKingRegal) November 12, 2018
...This is my neck today. You may think you know what you’re doing or you don’t care or “ well this or that...”. I have 4 fused disks and trained my neck properly almost daily. It WILL happen if you keep this up and you don’t want to go through it! pic.twitter.com/fnyDlNpoPx
— William Regal (@RealKingRegal) November 12, 2018
While Regal acknowledges that offering unsolicited advice probably won’t make much of a difference, it did garner thanks from King. It also led to this exchange between Regal and another person:
Yes, getting dropped on your head.
— William Regal (@RealKingRegal) November 12, 2018
Seems straight forward enough, but if you watch much wrestling - including stuff that takes place in WWE rings - you’ll see performers taking bumps that end with the top of their heads crashing into the mat or other hard objects. Given that Regal admits his neck required surgery despite proper training, the lesson appears to be that since it’s impossible to completely predict when you’ll take a spine-altering shot in this business/artform, don’t do ones designed to send you crashing down on your dome.
Since I’m not trained and have zero legs to stand on when it comes to offering wrestling advice, I’ll take the old villain’s lead and offer some to my fellow fans. You probably won’t listen to me, because I know 20-something me watching ECW or Attitude Era Mankind matches would have cheered whatever he wanted to. but...
Stop popping for and tweeting video & GIFs of wrestlers getting dropped on their heads.