William Regal Insisted WWE Superstar Hit Him in the Face

In 2019, during the build-up to the first women's WarGames match at NXT TakeOver: WarGames, Dakota Kai was involved in a notable incident. She was set to compete in the match but instead attacked her teammate Tegan Nox, leading to a confrontation with William Regal, who was then the NXT General Manager.

Recently, Kai shared details about this event on a Twitch stream.

“They asked me to do [push Regal], and I’m like, ‘It’s literally William Regal, legend, I don’t want to get in trouble and do something too far. Too much.’ He pulls me aside backstage and is like, ‘I want you to hit me in the face. I want you to punch me in the face. It needs to look like…I need you to punch me.’

Coach Sara Amato, legend, overheard this conversation and him telling me this and me standing there, scared shitless, ‘Yup, I’m going to punch you in the face.’ He left, she pulled me aside and was like, ‘Don’t punch him in the face.’

After every match, he’s always backstage giving us critiques. He wants legitimacy in this, which is great, we need that. She immediately was like, ‘don’t punch him in the face. Don’t do that.’ I was like, ‘No, never, I was never going to punch him in the face.’ I actually wasn’t.

We did the shove that we did, which still worked. It worked for what we wanted. It was like a forearm shove, but I put some sauce behind the shove. He didn’t need to have me do that, but that was cool. The look he gave me after I did that was very, ‘Oh, I messed up,’

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— Ben Jordan Kerin Nov 22, 2023 03:10PM