Darren Kenneth Matthews was born on 10 May 1968, and better known by the ring name William Regal, is an English retired professional wrestler.
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31 Facts About Darren Matthews
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Darren Matthews is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling, where he manages the Blackpool Combat Club stable.
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Darren Matthews is known for his over 20 years spent in WWE, as both a performer and an on-screen authority, and for his time performing in World Championship Wrestling.
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Darren Matthews went on to wrestle for national-level promotions on the UK wrestling circuit, and wrestled on television for ITV.
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Darren Matthews then progressed to touring around the world until 1993, when he was signed to World Championship Wrestling, where he took the ring name Steven Regal and became a four-time World Television Champion.
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In 2000, Darren Matthews joined the World Wrestling Federation, where he became a two-time Intercontinental Champion, a five-time Hardcore Champion, a four-time European Champion, a four-time World Tag Team Champion, and the 2008 King of the Ring.
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Darren Matthews had stints as the on-screen commissioner, the General Manager of the Raw brand, and the official match coordinator for the 2011 season of the original NXT.
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Darren Kenneth Matthews was born in Codsall on 10 May 1968.
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Darren Matthews grew up admiring wrestlers Terry Rudge and Jon Cortez, whom he later called "wrestlers' wrestlers".
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Darren Matthews went on to tour worldwide, including Germany and South Africa.
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Darren Matthews relayed that through Lord Alfred Hayes, WWF had become interested in seeing the young wrestler and offered him an opportunity at the WWF UK Rampage Show on 24 April 1991.
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Two months later, Darren Matthews was again wrestling on the UK swing of a major American promotion, although this time it was World Championship Wrestling.
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Darren Matthews then defended the title against fellow Brit Davey Boy Smith, whom he faced to a fifteen-minute time limit draw at Halloween Havoc.
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Darren Matthews held the title for five months and defended the title against the likes of Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Dean Malenko, former partner Bobby Eaton and Psychosis.
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Darren Matthews re-debuted in a match with Chris Benoit at the Third Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Show.
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Darren Matthews was fired as commissioner by Linda McMahon, but Shane McMahon, who was the owner of WCW, hired him as the Alliance Commissioner.
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Darren Matthews referred to being dressed as a buxom wench for a pirate, the aforementioned locker room incident with Vito, and being knighted by a false king as examples.
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Darren Matthews began incorporating game shows into Raw while general manager.
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Darren Matthews later faced Randy Orton in a match during the European tour to try to teach him some respect.
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Darren Matthews continued to work as a color commentator for NXT after FCW was rebranded as NXT.
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Darren Matthews became a trainer at the WWE Performance Center after the passing of Dusty Rhodes.
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Darren Matthews appeared during the Cruiserweight Classic semi-finals, handing TJ Perkins his medallion for defeating Kota Ibushi.
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Darren Matthews began to work as the manager for Danielson and Moxley's tag team, known as the Blackpool Combat Club.
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Darren Matthews' real accent, which greatly differs from the RP accent he primarily used on television, is a mixture of his native Staffordshire accent and a Lancashire accent inspired by his teenage years in Blackpool.
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Darren Matthews has a tattoo which says "Made in England" on his left leg and a rose with his wife's name on his left arm.
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Darren Matthews's pets include two dogs, three cats, two snakes, eight lizards, and a tortoise; he once quipped that he owns so many pets because "humans disgust [him]".
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Darren Matthews participated in a 2001 episode of The Weakest Link, winning two of the first three rounds and eventually finishing third.
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In 2003, Darren Matthews was misdiagnosed with what was later found to be a heart defect that was causing the right side of his heart to beat out of sequence with the left, allowing large volumes of fluid to build in his body.
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Darren Matthews' autobiography, Walking a Golden Mile, was released on 3 May 2005.
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Darren Matthews received stanozolol, somatropin, genotropin, and anastrozole between November 2004 and November 2006.
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