Regal told Gordon what he wanted to hear.
In 2017, Flip Gordon signed a contract with Ring of Honor. He began his in-ring career several years prior. Before signing his deal, Gordon had a conversation with William Regal at a seminar.
He recounted this interaction as he was being interviewed by Piers Austin. He stated that Regal gave him advice about joining the WWE Performance Center or continuing to travel the world as an independent wrestler.
Gordon recalled Regal talking about traveling the world and learning from hundreds of different people whereas at the Performance Center, Gordon would be learning from the same 30 or so people. Flip said he’s glad Regal told him that.
I remember asking William Regal at a seminar once and this had to have been 2017 or ‘18 before I signed with Ring of Honor and basically I asked him, I said, ‘Do you think it’s better to go to the P.C. and learn from you guys or travel the world and learn that way?’ And he was like, ‘When you come to the P.C., you’re learning from the same 30,’ whatever people they have down there. He’s like, ‘When you travel the world, you’re learning from hundreds and hundreds of different people.’ He’s like, ‘Go learn how to work in different crowds, go learn how to this’ and that to me, that’s what I wanted to hear. I’m glad he said it because that’s what I really wanted to hear and that’s when I kind of was like, all right, let’s go do this and that was back in 2017 right before I got signed by Ring of Honor and it worked. Working the independents has made me a very good professional wrestler and because you’re put in so many different scenarios that I feel like you wouldn’t be in on TV. But obviously, I love TV wrestling too.
Gordon was with Ring of Honor until their hiatus in 2021 which led to AEW’s Tony Khan acquiring the company.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit Piers Austin with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
