McIntyre talks both Clash at the Castle events.
The gradual shift in Drew McIntyre’s on-screen character has been on display over the last several years. A turning point in his story occurred at WWE Clash at the Castle 2022 where he challenged Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.
McIntyre lost the match after Solo Sikoa, who made his main roster debut, stopped the referee from making a three count as McIntyre had Reigns pinned. While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, McIntyre suggested an alternative idea for the finish to that match and it includes Austin Theory cashing in his Money in the Bank contract.
Theory did make a run-in during the bout, but was taken out by pro boxer Tyson Fury. McIntyre brought up the idea of Theory cashing-in, being added to the match and then pinning him so Reigns could be protected. As for Clash at the Castle: Scotland, McIntyre said that was a tough pill to swallow as well.
I think so (WrestleMania XL title win means more than if I had won at Clash at the Castle 2022). It’s weird, because you look at certain moments and in the moment when you’re living them, you’re like, this is ridiculous. We should have found a way out of this. (Austin) Theory could have cashed in and I could have pinned him because we had to protect The Bloodline and Roman (Reigns) at that time. That’s the top story in the company, the top character, and perhaps at that time, I was like, I just feel this is a bad move. That thing with Tyson Fury, that was stupid. There’s no excuse for that. That’s the worst moment in my entire career. We did the bit, the song and then I told him, ‘Hey, you wanna sing Sweet Caroline?’ Because British fans — one, they’re upset I just lost and two, they don’t know American Pie. He was like, ‘Nah, I’m good mate,’ and I’m like, I’m not gonna fight you. You’re Tyson Fury so give me the mic and I figured we’re off the air. That’s when I started doing the Oasis bit and singing Don’t Look Back in Anger. Just got the crowd going and I was like, ‘Ah, this sucks but we’re off the air.’ Then I found out we were still on the air. It was a whole thing but anyway, I digress. Oasis are back together. Gotta get some tickets for that. Yeah, that night, I was very upset. Was like, man, I don’t wanna hurt that market. How does McIntyre rebound from this? Which took a minute to do. But, because I didn’t win that night, the way things worked out, the story we’ve been telling, that was such an integral part of the story, especially initially with the character shift with Jey Uso moving from SmackDown to Raw and bringing up the trauma and PTSD McIntyre, me, had from The Bloodline and what they’d done to cost, not just me, but my family that moment who were all in the front row. My dad, my wife, my brother, my sister-in-law, my cousin. Like, everybody’s there who’ve been missing me for all these years. I’ve not seen my nephews grow up. That was gonna be our moment and this trauma is brought up by this Bloodline member just showing up and everybody cheering him and saying his silly little word yeet and doing his little silly dance, and I go, ‘Wait a minute. This guy’s a bad guy,’ and then suddenly, people start turning on me so if it wasn’t for what happened at Clash, if it wasn’t for the journey, and the way we tell stories now and can tell stories now, we wouldn’t be where we are right now.
Yeah, that was a tough one (he said about losing at Clash at the Castle: Scotland). A really, really tough one. The same time, if I win, then I’m right. Sometimes it’s okay to be right. Yeah, that one really stung.
As of this writing, McIntyre is feuding with CM Punk. They are 1-1 in singles matches and this past Monday on Raw, McIntyre continuously went after Punk and it resulted in Punk having to be taken away in an ambulance.
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