Drew McIntyre Admits WWE Glasgow Screwjob For The Best
Drew McIntyre has taken a look back at one of his biggest defeats.
It’s fair to say that Drew McIntyre hasn’t exactly enjoyed his recent returns to the UK. At Cash at the Castle in 2022, he lost out to Roman Reigns thanks to Solo Sikoa, and at the same event two years later he was screwed out of another World Title run by CM Punk.
Back home in Glasgow, Scotland, McIntyre appeared to have the match won against Damian Priest before Punk — serving as referee, refused to deliver a three count. To round off the disappointment, Punk flattened McIntyre with a low blow for good measure.
During a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, McIntyre admitted that in the moment, defeat was incredibly tough to take.
“That was a tough one. 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.”
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Despite that initial disappointment, McIntyre agreed that losing in Scotland was the right call as it set up another big moment at SummerSlam. Somewhat tellingly, McIntyre said that on reflection the loss was easier to take as he knows “we will stick to the story.”
“Yeah, there’s always that moment and in the environment we’re in now, it’s story above all else. I didn’t feel that way in the past. I was like, if we don’t do this now, things could change in a couple of weeks. It’s a lot of pivoting left and right, and characters and stories changing consistently.
Now I know we will stick to the story. It hurt, but I see what we are now, and I’m like, Okay, if I won that night, then I’m just, yeah, I did it. I’m right, go screw yourselves.
Because of what happened and much as I can’t stand him, that moment was something that would be replayed forever, just the big near fall at the end, everybody in my freaking home country going insane. One two, and it’s that piece of sh*t counting the fall and cost me the match with the low blow.
And at the same time, it’s SummerSlam. If you noticed, the way I gave him the low blow was exact same corner, exact same way he did it to me. So he can’t say one word about how things happened at SummerSlam.”
Fresh off the back of being defeated by CM Punk at Bash In Berlin, Drew McIntyre viciously assaulted his rival on Raw ensuring he left on a stretcher. It’s long been rumoured that the pair will finally settle their differences at Bad Blood inside Hell in a Cell. At present, each man holds one win over the other.
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