One of the mostly hotly debated subjects among wrestling fan is Who is the best wrestler to never win a World Championship? For years, the conversation included Roddy Piper, Ted DiBiase and Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig. More recently, another name has worked its way into the discussion, and thats William Regal. After thirty years in the business, Regal is in semi-retirement and fans are coming around to his contributions to the sport. Things could have been very different if William Regal had stuck with his first gimmick. Just like Steve Austin was The Ringmaster and Triple H was Hunter Hearst Helmsley, William Regal was The Real Mans Man. He was shown in vignettes doing traditionally manly things like shaving with a straight razor and chopping down trees, and he had an incredibly hilarious theme music that once youve heard once youll never forget. Where this gimmick gets really stupid is what the original endgame for the character was. Eventually it was going to be revealed that he was a Real Mans Man in more ways than one, and it would be revealed that Regal was gay. While representation is important, and wrestling could definitely use more homosexual characters, the plans for Regal were to play his sexuality for laughs, and is hardly the progressive representation wrestling needs. At the time, Regal was suffering through a battle with prescription medication, and checked himself into rehab. He was released by WWF and went back to WCW. He came back to WWF a year later much healthier and was given a character that suits him much better, and became one of the most enduring characters of The Attitude Era.
