Arn Anderson recently offered high-praise for a pair of European pro wrestling legends.
During a recent installment of his ARN podcast, “The Enforcer” gave significant praise to William Regal and David “Fit” Finlay when talking about the pair of European wrestling legends and his experiences with them during their respective runs in WCW and WWE.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the show where the AEW performer gives his thoughts on Regal and Finlay.
On William Regal: “Steve [William] Regal was a great wrestler. I love that European style. He could have a match literally with a salt shaker and make it good.”
On David “Fit” Finlay: “And Fit Finlay now walks in the door. Prior to this, before he came to work for us, just out of the blue I was talking to Terry Funk up in the stands and we’re talking about ‘we need some fresh talent in here’, ‘it’d be nice if we could get somebody that nobody knew’, ‘I mean, we need some heat on some heels’. He looked and said ‘Arn you’re got to get Dave Finlay’. I said, ‘who’s Dave Finlay?’ He said ‘he’s the best heel in the business’. That came from Terry Funk in a time that I thought I was pretty good, a hot commodity. I thought I was a good heel, I thought Curt Henning was a good heel. Ted diBiase was a good heel. He said ‘I’m telling you, you see this guy work, he is a vicious son of a b*tch’. Well when we got Fit, and he came in from day one, he was an assassin. To this day ,I’ve never seen anybody that’s as vicious, had a grasp of psychology, was a nasty heel, could make guys and make himself at the very same time. Man when he mugged you, he really mugged you – it was solid. It was relatively safe I would say. […] He was a superstar I was just in awe of the different things he did – that European style amazes me anyway. Him and Regal, mostly him, beat the ever-loving crap out of each other.”
Check out the complete episode at WestwoodOnePodcasts.com. H/T to ITRWrestling.com for transcribing the above quotes from the show.
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