How Drew McIntyre Really Felt About Losing WWE Grudge Match

Drew McIntyre has opened up about how he felt about losing one of the biggest matches of his WWE career.

The best WWE feud of 2024, in the eyes of a lot of fans, was the rivalry between CM Punk and Drew McIntyre. Since Punk couldn’t wrestle for over six months due to a torn triceps injury, the feud lasted about ten months.

While CM Punk was unable to compete, he ended up costing Drew McIntyre the World Heavyweight Title on multiple occasions, including at WWE Clash at the Castle, which was a rare WWE PLE in McIntyre’s home country of Scotland.

When Punk was finally able to wrestle in the summer, McIntyre won the first match, Punk won the second match, and the third match was a Hell in a Cell Match. The two men went on to have a bloody battle that many people considered to be WWE’s Match of the Year at the event known as Bad Blood.

That Hell in a Cell Match at Bad Blood was won by CM Punk, while Drew McIntyre has admitted that he felt woozy during the match because he was hit in the head with a toolbox. Referees checked on McIntyre during the match, but he was able to continue. After it was over, McIntyre needed 16 stitches to close the wound.

Drew McIntyre Understood WWE’s Decision To Have CM Punk Win Hell In A Cell Match

In an interview High Performance, Drew McIntyre said he was okay with losing to Punk even though he legitimately has issues with him. McIntyre went on to discuss other wrestlers in the company and how WWE storytelling is now more reality-based.

“From a character perspective, I was okay with it. If anyone’s been following our show, you know, with Drew McIntyre, the journey that I’ve been on, I was the number one good guy, World Champion, all that jazz and was wronged in a lot of ways by certain people who were bad guys at the time.

Then these bad guys became good guys all of a sudden for no particular reason other than they took a vacation. Like Roman Reigns, our top star, disappeared for six months, drank some margaritas, got some abs, came back and because he’s a big star, people just forgot all the bad stuff he did to everybody. He’s back and he’s got abs now. He’s cool. We love him, and a couple of his family members started doing some cool things.

Like his cousin Jey Uso says a fun word, Yeet. Does a little hand gesture. He didn’t do anything particular to turn good. He just started doing that and people just started cheering him all of a sudden because we’re very interactive. So if our fans like to chant things, they like to join in on the gestures.

From my character perspective, those guys made my life a living hell. They screwed me up with the world title multiple times, beat me down with chairs violently. Those chairs are real. Multiple times, and suddenly they were getting cheered. So I had certain issues when usually historically in wrestling, if you’re good, you just get on with the good guys you’re bad you’re going with the bad guys.

You know, since Triple H took charge of the creative process it’s very much based in reality now. These days, it’s not just the good guys and the bad guys fighting each other like it used to be.”

On SmackDown after WrestleMania, Drew McIntyre was in action against LA Knight in a competitive match that ended abruptly when McIntyre’s rival Damian Priest pulled him out of the ring for a disqualification.

Drew McIntyre beat Damian Preist at WrestleMania 41 in a Sin City Street Fight, but it appears as though the rivalry isn’t over.