Piper Niven responds to William Regal health warning: ‘Take heed my darlings’

Piper Niven — who is currently battling a serious neck injury of her own — hopes that wrestlers listen to William Regal’s health advice.

On Sunday night, Regal sent out a tweet warning wrestlers against doing “stupid” moves where they get dropped on their heads. Regal detailed the consequences that he and others like Bryan Danielson are dealing with from the damage they suffered in their careers — and he pleaded with the younger generation to stop doing moves that carry such great risk toward their future quality of life.

Niven responded by backing up Regal’s advice and asking other wrestlers to heed his warning. She said there’s a very fine line between feeling fine and not being able to feel okay.

“The line between ‘But I feel fine!’ And ‘I just want to feel ok again’ Is horrifically thin and you have zero idea how close you are teetering on the edge of it,” she wrote. “Please take heed my darlings.”

Though Regal did not state this in his tweet, most fans assumed he was responding to the spot from AEW Worlds End where Kyle Fletcher landed on his neck while taking a top rope dragon suplex from Jon Moxley. Regal previously worked for AEW before returning to WWE in 2023.

Niven responded to a fan on X who thought Regal was being hypocritical for indirectly criticizing an AEW spot when he hasn’t done so for WWE.

“Or perhaps it’s just a great way of getting solid advice to people he doesn’t have a direct line of communication with or see at work to tell them in person,” she wrote.

Niven is a member of the WWE SmackDown roster but has not wrestled since August due to a neck injury that could be career-threatening.

Fletcher is believed to be fine despite how scary the Worlds End spot looked.

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Joseph Currier
Joseph Currier

Joseph Currier is the lead editor of F4WOnline.com, directing daily news coverage and writing articles on professional wrestling. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, obtaining a journalism degree in 2016. Joseph joined F4W during his time at UMass and has now been writing about the industry for nearly a decade.

In addition to his work with F4W, Joseph has previously contributed to Sports Illustrated's wrestling coverage. He lives in Massachusetts and is a diehard fan of the Boston sports teams and Liverpool Football Club.