Drew McIntyre understood why his character had to lose against CM Punk.
Over the course of 2024, Drew McIntyre and CM Punk would go to war with one another, with McIntyre initially taking Punk out of WrestleMania 40, with Punk striking back on multiple occasions while out injured. The two men's rivalry would culminate at WWE Bad Blood 2024, where they would meet in a brutal Hell In A Cell match.
While speaking to High Performance in a new interview, McIntyre was asked if it bothered him having to lose to Punk, who he has issues with outside of the ring. McIntyre remarked that he understood the loss from a character perspective.
"From a character perspective, I was okay with it. Ff 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."
McIntyre recently competed at WrestleMania 41 in a Sin City Street Fight with Damian Priest. You can read more about that here.
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