Why WWE’s Drew McIntyre Feels He Could Fit In Another WrestleMania 41 Match
Drew McIntyre’s WrestleMania 41 match is set, but the powerful Scotsman feels like another match makes sense for him.
The WWE roster is as loaded as ever in 2025, so there are only so many spots for wrestlers who want to be in WrestleMania main event matches. Even though WWE likes to say Royal Rumble winners are going to the main event of WrestleMania, it’s not expected that this year’s Royal Rumble winners, Jey Uso & Charlotte Flair, will be in main event matches.
It has been previously announced by WWE that the WrestleMania 41 main events are Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins on April 19th and Cody Rhodes defending the Undisputed WWE Title vs. John Cena on April 20th.
Former WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will be in action at WrestleMania 41 when he faces Damian Priest. It’s a story that goes back one year when Priest cashed in Money in the Bank on McIntyre to win the World Heavyweight Title.
Even though Drew McIntyre’s match with Damian Priest makes sense in terms of the story, McIntyre spoke to the Getting Over podcast about how he also has a lot of history with the guys in the Reigns-Punk-Rollins match.
“Yeah, it would have 100 percent been logical (if I was involved in night one WrestleMania 41 main event) for all the reasons you just mentioned. You know, doing the Bloodline hunter thing which, you know, we kind of come back to.
That’s just an ongoing story but it would have been nice to get there for WrestleMania and you mention CM Punk. Couldn’t be anymore hatred there than there already is and we can’t take it any further currently in a singles situation so it would have to be wanting to be that main event and preventing him from getting his dream in that main event.
Seth (Rollins) and I, non-stop feuding over the years. World Title match, WrestleMania last year and with Paul Heyman, as I mentioned in that story, I guess I will say things in my own fun, little way,
I referred to myself as the daddy of The Bloodline but, when I broke it down so everyone could understand, it was, I’m the one that beat Brock Lesnar, I’m the one that sent Heyman off into the ocean and it was Roman (Reigns) who had to rescue him from obscurity because I sent him there which led to The Bloodline, led to all the horrible things, the reign of terror that happened to me and multiple other people who if I didn’t win that match, would be in the position we’re in now.
Would that have happened? You know, we’ll never know and Roman’s always been my kryptonite. I’ve never been able to get that win over him, no matter how many big matches we have had.”
Drew McIntyre Appreciates WWE Fans Who Want Him In A Bigger WrestleMania Match
Many WWE fans feel like Drew McIntyre has been one of the best performers in the company for several years and he should be rewarded for that with a bigger match at WrestleMania. McIntyre said he appreciates those fans who have supported him.
“I appreciate all the fans out there who felt like, ‘Hey, Drew should be in to a title match or this match’ and did some fantasy booking on my behalf and based on my work over the last couple of years, I’ve been able to show what I’m truly capable of when I’m unleashed.
I mean, that’s thanks to who’s obviously leading the creative right now and just letting a lot of people loose who he can trust to be themselves and take it as far as they can go creatively on television and off television. I’m on 24/7. So yeah, I really did appreciate that.
At the same time, I guess there’s only so many spots at the top of the card. I did question why I talked about Roman (Reigns) for three months and it didn’t really go anywhere but, I don’t make the decisions of what the final matches are. And I was fully aware there is a year-long storyline with Damian Priest and I and that has not been told yet.
Beginning at WrestleMania last year and we finally have the chance to start telling on TV — or I told for the past month and Priest finally had his little say back this week where people finally realized, oh, okay, wow. This has been going on this entire time.”
A face-to-face segment has been promoted between Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest on the April 11th SmackDown from Seattle, so both men will be able to express themselves one week before their WrestleMania 41 showdown.