WWE’s Drew McIntyre Names The Best Match Of His Career
Drew McIntyre has made his selection for the best match of his career and it’s a match that he didn’t win.
As a former three-time WWE World Champion who has been part of WWE for most of the last 17 years, Drew McIntyre has a lot of great matches that he should be proud of.
With decades of experience as a pro wrestler, McIntyre is still performing at a very high level while making memories all the time whether he’s in a match or stealing another grown man’s bracelet.
When it comes to the best match in a wrestler’s career, that can often be hard to label, but in McIntyre’s case many would go with the incredible triple threat match from WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles. Gunther won the match to retain the Intercontinental Title in a match that also included Drew’s best friend Sheamus.
For many fans, it was the WWE Match of the Year and perhaps the Pro Wrestling Match of the Year in 2023. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer gave the match a coveted five-star rating, which is also what I rated it in my live review.
In an interview with Chris Van Vliet, McIntyre explained why he enjoyed the WrestleMania 39 match with Gunther and Sheamus so much.
“I’d say bell to bell, the fact that it was at WrestleMania that could be the best match, probably is the best match of my career. I mean, how can you top being at WrestleMania, having a match that people say is one of the greatest Mania matches of all time, but perhaps the greatest Triple Threat of all time, and also the history I have with Sheamus? For the past 20 years, in the ring and out the ring, everything we’ve gone through together, and then adding Gunther, was somebody who’s just very similar to us, such an incredible physical in-ring talent.
Put us all together and it was amazing. I remember not even 10 minutes into the match. Think it was after Sheamus gave me about 40 beats to the chest and the face. Nice. And then the crowd went crazy, and they’re chanting I believe ‘this is awesome.’ And I was like, ‘wow, we’re not even getting started. Wait till you see’ and also, why am I seeing double at this point? That was cool.
The story for the match was cool as well, because eventually Gunther disappeared for a while, and Sheamus and I have always dreamed about our one-on-one match at WrestleMania. And we went back and forth for 10 straight minutes, claymores and brogues and hitting our bombs. It was like we were having that singles match. We forgot about Gunther, and at the right moment, he just reappears. Boom, steals it, heads out. So that was cool as well that Sheamus and I kind of got a one-on-one match at Mania we should have had the year prior.”
Drew McIntyre Violently Assaults CM Punk On WWE Raw
At the WWE Bash In Berlin last Saturday, CM Punk defeated McIntyre soundly in a brutal Strap Match.
On the Monday Nigth Raw that followed, CM Punk was in a celebratory mood saying he was going after the World Heavyweight Champion Gunther, but Drew McIntyre disagreed with that. McIntyre destroyed Punk in a cheap attack that included multiple Claymore Kicks to the head. McIntyre also broke the coveted bracelet that belonged to Punk and then he put the bracelet beats into Punk’s mouth as well.
It is expected that Punk and McIntyre will have a Hell in a Cell Match at the Bad Blood PLE on October 5th although that has yet to be made official by WWE as of this writing.