Drew McIntyre Furious But Not Why WWE Fans Think
Drew McIntyre stormed out of the WWE Royal Rumble but it seems his anger stemmed from a moment in the match that has been overlooked.
Drew McIntyre entered the men’s Rumble at number 17 and looked set to be among the final runners and riders but things didn’t pan out that way. The Scottish star lasted 26 minutes and 55 seconds but claimed no eliminations before he was dumped out of the ring by Damian Priest.
McIntyre looked shocked as he was forced to walk away from his chance to headline WrestleMania 41 but backstage all hell broke loose.
Drew McIntyre stormed out of the building after screaming and cursing that “someone had to get their moves in” at the expense of other stories in the match. Following news of his unhappiness, a clip did the rounds online of LA Knight colliding with Damian Priest as Priest was about to eliminate McIntyre. But it seems that’s not where McIntyre’s unhappiness lay.
Drew McIntyre Unhappy With Rumble Spot
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted McIntyre’s anger was very real and he was not alone. LA Knight still seems to be the focus of that anger but it was for an earlier spot than many people thought:
The main issue was not the elimination where LA Knight did get in the way of Damian Priest as he was throwing Drew McIntyre over the top rope. I saw that and I thought that’s the spot. I have found out that it was earlier that was the [problem].
He was very loudly hot about it, it was not a secret or anything like that. It’s not an angle. It was basically exactly how it was reported, the feeling was LA Knight was doing stuff that was not planned in the match, that’s the claim and it got in the way of things that were supposed to happen including his actual elimination, when it was supposed to happen. Then it got in the way of his later elimination, it was actually supposed to happen earlier. And it took some time to get back in position for the elimination so the second elimination was not the planned elimination.
It wasn’t like one person was mad, it was a number of people. But [McIntyre] was loud when he got back to the dressing room about it.
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