Although it was very brief, Drew McIntyre won the WWE World Championship at WrestleMania.
The Scottish Warrior Drew McIntyre finally got his moment at this year’s WrestleMania. He managed to dethrone the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Seth Rollins. But that only lasted for a short while. CM Punk attacked McIntyre allowing room for Damian Priest to cash in his Money In The Bank Contract and win his first world title.
Recently, while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight Podcast, Drew McIntyre reflected on his WrestleMania moment.
“Yeah, it did. I mean, the match itself, opening Wrestlemania, myself and Seth, one of my greatest rivals. We have a big professional rivalry, and the match itself is perfect, just with a story going into it. We’ve had so many matches like technical, high fly, near falls left and right. This was okay, just starting off, Claymore, just unload, unload, unload, unload, till somebody doesn’t get back up.
“And finally, I put the last round in Seth, and had that moment where the crowd were chanting, you deserve it. Wrestlemania. Seth had that moment telling me the same thing, which meant a lot, and then being able to present the title to my wife, who has been such a big part of the journey. But no, I’m not going to talk about what happened after that. But just that five minutes or whatever I dragged it out to because I made sure I milked every second of it, because that was very real. It was very emotional. To be able to give her the title and say, this is yours too. And hugging my brother, who’s my original tag partner, was very, very cool. And then Punk f*cked it up.”
Drew McIntyre feels his WrestleMania win would have meant more than if he had won at the inaugural Clash at the Castle
The Scottish Warrior also mentioned that he could have won the title at the inaugural Clash at the Castle PLE in some way or the other but in the end that did not happen. He also feels like his WrestleMania win would have meant more even then.
“I think so. It’s weird, because you look at certain moments and in the moment when you’re living them you’re like this is ridiculous. We should have found a way out of this. Theory could have cashed in, and I could have pinned him because we had to protect The Bloodline and Roman at that time, that’s the top story in the company, the top character. And perhaps at that time, I was like, I just feel this is a bad move.”
McIntyre also mentioned that singing along with Tyson Fury was a stupid move.
“That thing with Tyson Fury. That was stupid. There’s no excuse for that. That’s the worst moment in my entire career. We did the bit, the song, and then I told him, Hey, you want to sing Sweet Caroline, because British fans [love it]. They’re upset that I lost. They don’t know American Pie. He was like, Nah, I’m good. I’m not gonna fight you, you’re Tyson Fury. I figured we’re off the air that’s why I started doing the Oasis bit and singing Don’t Look Back in Anger. Just got the crowd going. And I was like, Oh, this sucks, but we’re off the air. Then I found out we’re still on the air. It was a whole thing,” Drew McIntyre said.
