WWE Posts Rare Drew McIntyre Match Against Legendary Tag Team (VIDEO)
A match from very early in Drew McIntyre’s career was posted by WWE and it’s a rare one against a former championship tag team.
Drew McIntyre has been on a long journey that saw the former three-time WWE World Champion debut as a regular member of the main roster in October 2007 when he was just 22 years old. McIntyre started wrestling a few years before that when he was a teenager before landing his dream job with WWE.
There’s a relatively new YouTube channel called WWE Vault that is run by World Wrestling Entertainment featuring some old matches involving current talent as well as names from the past.
A new video was posted featuring a young Drew McIntyre in action in a tag team match with veteran wrestler Dave Taylor against The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags), who were former WWE and WCW Tag Team Champions. The match took place in 2007 when McIntrye was signed to a WWE deal, but wasn’t yet a regular on television.
At the time, there was a report credited to PWInsider about what went wrong in the match.
The Nasty Boys apparently treated the dark match as if they were major stars who just returned. They took too long getting into the ring when they came out because they kept interacting with their friends and family seated at ringside. Knobbs got in the ring with his back to the hard camera while Saggs came in and stood right next to opponents Drew McIntye and Dave Taylor, making them look stupid.
During the match, the Nastys were stiff with McIntye who is only 21 and new to the main roster. He took the abuse for awhile but eventually started giving out his own stiff shots to the Nastys. The Nastys even worked stiff with Dave Taylor even though he is a respected veteran.
Some blamed the Nastys match taking so long for screwing up the entire Smackdown taping, causing it to end at 9:54PM ET and giving WWE just six minutes to change the ring and set for ECW On Sci-Fi.
It was also evident from watching the match that The Nasty Boys were not in great shape at this point in their careers. They also messed up the double-team finishing move they attempted to do to McIntyre to win the match. Saggs ended up pinning McIntyre to win the match, even after the botched finish.
In a bit of Nasty Boys wrestling trivia, Saggs’ wife is the sister of Michelle Runnels (Rubio), who is the wife of the late, great Dusty Rhodes and she is the mother of current WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. This means that Saggs is Cody’s uncle.
Drew McIntyre Rematch With CM Punk Taking Place At WWE Bash In Berlin
The present-day version of Drew McIntyre is a much more impressive athlete than the young man who faced The Nasty Boys in 2007. The confident McIntyre picked up a big, controversial win over CM Punk at SummerSlam earlier this month and they are set to have a rematch.
At the WWE Bash in Berlin PLE this Saturday, August 31st in Berlin, Germany, the Drew McIntyre-CM Punk rematch will be a Strap Match where both men will have their wrists tied together thanks to a leather strap.