Pro wrestling legend offers stark warning to competitors about landing on their heads

Pro wrestling fable William Regal urged in-ring competitors to larn and found harmless practices amid a drawstring of scary-looking bumps.

Regal posted a lengthy connection connected his societal media, accompanied by an X-ray showing his ain breached bones from taking pugnacious bumps portion helium was successful the ring. He performed for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), WWE and was a manager astatine All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

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Alexa Bliss, William Regal and Charlotte Flair talk during NXT astatine Full Sail University - Ebbs Auditorium connected Sept. 16, 2025, successful Winter Park, Florida. (Bradlee Rutledge/WWE via Getty Images)

"I enactment disconnected present but was alerted to thing contiguous that has alarmed me. I don’t work immoderate comments truthful don’t discarded your clip trying to reason oregon warrant your precise incorrect opinions connected this. I broke my cervix twice, (92/93) successful ringing and a car wreck successful ‘97 and stupidly ne'er told anyone. And I was taught decently however to span and not onshore connected the apical of my head," helium wrote connected X. "It’s a accomplishment that possibly 99.9% of radical don’t cognize oregon volition ever larn anymore.

"I kept going someway but knew each the tricks that again radical don’t larn present and ticker movie and conscionable copy. After Misawa San passed from his cervix problems, I thought it would halt this nonsense but it’s got worse and whenever I speech to radical astir them doing it it’s ‘well it doesn’t hurt….’ Believe maine it will. I person radical adjacent to maine now, Bryan (Danielson) being one, who is suffering regular similar myself from his neck. It’s a regular misery and slumber and each different facet of your beingness is much than hard. Although radical usage the word pugnacious astir maine you’ll ne'er perceive maine accidental that arsenic I’m not and don’t deliberation I americium oregon person ever been."

Two of the scariest-looking hits this twelvemonth occurred successful the past 2 months.

On Saturday nighttime astatine AEW’s Full Gear, Jon Moxley suplexed Kyle Fletcher from the apical rope. Fletcher landed connected the apical of his head.

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Adam Cole is kicked by Kyle Fletcher during the AEW "Dynamite" amusement connected May 28, 2025, astatine El Paso County Coliseum. (Gaby Velasquez/ El Paso Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

During WWE’s Survivor Series: WarGames, CM Punk and Cody Rhodes teamed up to present a Doomsday Device to Bron Breakker. As Punk clotheslined Breakker, the second wrestler flipped backward and landed connected the apical of his head.

On the surface, some Fletcher and Breakker appeared to beryllium OK.

"Money and immoderate nonsense fame is expected to beryllium is not worthy the symptom oregon expected 2 evening glory you get from these ridiculous moves dropping yourself connected your head," Regal continued. "The immense bulk of fans don’t cognize the quality betwixt a vertical suplex and a brainbuster and that’s a acold tamer determination than galore I spot now.

"I’m 57 and go little applicable each time but fame has ne'er been my happening truthful astir of you doing this STUPID worldly are not going to perceive to maine but hopefully a fewer do. Stop it present if you privation a decent prime of beingness aft wrestling due to the fact that that portion of your beingness volition beryllium implicit earlier you cognize it and wrestling done close is hard capable but breached necks oregon decease are not thing you should deliberation is pugnacious oregon cool. It’s idiotic thinking."

CM Punk with a clothesline to Bron Breakker during Survivor Series astatine Petco Park connected Nov. 29, 2025, successful San Diego, California. (Georgiana Dallas/WWE via Getty Images)

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Pro wrestling is overmuch safer nowadays, but the apical stars successful promotions crossed the athletics are dealing with brutal injuries from years of pushing the pedal to the metal.

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