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INTERVIEW: British Wrestling Legend Doug Williams Is Coming Out Of Retirement

Cultaholic Wrestling

Cultaholic

Sports, Wrestling, Sports & Recreation, Wwe Podcast, Wrestling Podcast, Wwe, Aew

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

BritWres and ROH Legend Doug Williams talks to Cultaholic.com's Aidan Gibbons about coming out retirement, ROH Wrestling and weighs in on the WWE thigh-slapping debate.


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1:27.8

that you were busy returning to the ring because of events over the past year.

1:31.3

Primarily because of the pandemic, essentially, you know, had a lot of time to sit at home doing

1:37.3

nothing, thinking about your life and the things that ultimately you enjoyed and you know, things that you might maybe have taken for granted for a while

1:45.5

and now you realize that they were a fundamental part of your life and something that really enjoyed and actually

1:49.9

you know made your life what it was and I think wrestling was definitely one of those, one of those things, you know.

1:56.5

So it kind of gave me the itch to get in there and start performing again.

2:00.8

Whilst I'm still able to, I don't think I'm totally over the hill yet. I don't think I'm totally over the hill yet I don't think I've totally written off.

2:05.6

So have you started training already to get back in the ring or?

2:08.3

Only insofar as I do like the normal kind of lockdown exercises which is walking outside and body weight exercises on the room, you know, in my living room, but I haven't done the, I mean, I'm doing any wrestling training really can you unless I was going to wrestle myself on my bed or something.

2:25.3

That's going to start happening in earnest on April or 12 isn't it when those sort of facilities are open again.

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