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Ask.com Biography:

Darren Matthews was born on May 10, 1968 in Codsall Wood, Staffordshire, England. His wife's name is Chris and they have 3 sons (Daniel, Dane, & Bailey). At the age of 16, he started to wrestle on The Golden Mile at Pleasure Beach in Blackpool. That wrestling involved challenging beach goers to survive several rounds with one of the wrestlers. After a few years of this, he became involved in more traditional wrestling circuits in Europe. In 1993, he was signed by WCW.

Lord Steven Regal was briefly managed by his butler Sir Bill Dundee. He won the TV Title from Ricky Steamboat. After being involved in the TV title picture for almost a year, he started teaming with Paul LeVesque (Triple H). After Triple H left WCW, Steven formed the Blue Bloods with Bobby Eaton.

After being in a tag team for almost a year, in 1996 he began feuding for the TV title again. He beat Lex Luger for the title and later regained it from Ultimo Dragon. His drug addictions started to interfere with his ring performance and he was fired shortly after a televised match with Goldberg in 1998.

In 1998, he was signed by the WWF and renamed William Regal. He was given the gimmick of The Man’s Man. His drug addictions started to interfere with his career again and he was forced into rehab. While he was in rehab, he suffered a relapse and was let go. After checking out of rehab, he was rehired by WCW. After a few months, he was let go as part of the cost cutting measure that were going on in WCW at the time.

He was rehired by the WWF shortly after but had to wrestle in Memphis for a few months. When he was called back up in 2000 he feuded over the European title and became WWF Commissioner for a good portion of 2001. As a member of the Alliance, he was fired from the WWF after they lost the Invasion but was rehired in a controversial angle that saw him join the Vince McMahon “Kiss My A** Club”.

He started of 2002 with a feud over the Intercontinental Title with Edge. Later in the year, he joined The Unamericans, a group of foreign wrestlers that hated America. That group also consisted of Lance Storm, Christian, and Test. He won the tag team titles with Lance Storm.

In early 2003, he suffered from a major heart ailment. It caused the lower half of his body to retain water and he gained close to 40 pounds. The doctors had to stop his heart and restart it for him to get better. In April 2004, he returned to TV as the manager of Eugene. A few months later, he was able to wrestle again and held the tag team titles with Eugene and Tajiri. In 2007, he was named the General Manager of Monday Night RAW.

On the April 21, 2008 edition of Monday Night RAW, Regal lived up to his last name. By beating Hornswoggle, Finlay, and then CM Punk, William Regal was crowned the King of the Ring.

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WWE.com Biography:

Normally, William Regal is one of WWE’s most smug and haughty Superstars. A distinguished Englishman, Regal finds most others crass and downright unworthy of his time. While presenting himself as a dignified man away from the ring, Regal is a sadistic mat wrestler inside the squared circle, taking great pleasure in torturing his adversaries with stiff strikes and brutal submission holds.

Learning the ropes as a young teenager, the native of Blackpool, England traveled across the United Kingdom wrestling as part of carnivals. Facing off against challengers from the carnival circuit as well as from the crowd, Regal quickly earned a reputation as a lethal opponent, with fists of iron and dozens of different holds to render his adversaries helpless. Always interested in sharpening his tools as a wrestler, Regal traveled across the world, winning several championships in Europe, the Middle East and Japan before landing in WCW in 1993. There, Regal held the WCW Television Championship on four occasions; he also nearly won the WCW Tag Team Championship on several occasions with Bobby Eaton and Squire David Taylor, and also had a memorable rivalry with Finlay that saw the Irish brawler break Regal’s nose during a match in 1996. Regal came to WWE for a short time in 1998, but headed back to WCW shortly thereafter.

Regal finally hit it big when he returned to WWE in 2000. Less than a month after his return, Regal defeated Al Snow for the European Championship that October. In April 2001, he would defeat Snow again to earn a different title: WWE Commissioner. Regal earned several chances at the Intercontinental Championship that summer; he was unsuccessful, but after enlisting Tajiri as his assistant, Regal became a key figure in WWE’s battle with the ECW/WCW Alliance.

The Englishman also used his class and wit to determine the week-to-week function of the entire Monday night roster as the General Manager of the Raw brand, keeping in line "pillicks" and competitors alike. Arguably his crowning achievement, however, was becoming really regal by winning the 2008 WWE King of the Ring Tournament. Ultimately, his misuse of authority - blackening arenas and cutting microphone feeds - came to an end when Mr. Kennedy defeated Regal in a Loser Gets Fired Match on the May 19 edition of Raw.

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Stats/Career Highlights

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Title History

(WCW)
TV Title
9/19/93 Fall Brawl – Ricky Steamboat
6/23/94 Clash of the Champions – Larry Zbysko
9/20/96 – Lex Luger
5/18/97 Slamboree – Ultimo Dragon

(WWE)
I-C Championship
1/20/02 Royal Rumble – Edge
World Tag Team Championship
1/6/03 – w/Lance Storm beat Booker T & Goldust
1/20/03 – w/Lance Storm beat The Dudleys
1/15/04 – w/Eugene beat Champs Rob Conway & Sylvan Grenier, and Tajiri & Rhyno
2/7/05 – w/Tajiri beat Rob Conway & Sylvan Grenier
European Championship
10/16/00 – Al Snow
12/4/00 – Crash Holly
3/21/02 – Dallas Page
5/6/02 – Spike Dudley

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