Drew McIntyre looks back at WWE Bad Blood.
At WWE Bad Blood 2024, CM Punk and Drew McIntyre's rivalry that spanned throughout 2024 culminated inside Hell In A Cell at the premium live event. The match was a brutal affair, and at one point McIntyre was busted open by a toolbox shot to the head from Punk. The gash was a significant one, and McIntyre was soon covered in blood. However, McIntyre would finish the match, with Punk coming away with the victory.
While speaking on Wafflin' in a recent interview, McIntyre reflected on the moment, noting that he came to on his knees after the shot to the head.
"Yeah, I got hit with a toolbox, come around on my knees, and I remember kind of shaking it off and I went, wow, that hurt. The referee was trying to tell me something, and I was trying to look at him and I couldn't hear what he was saying. I have a bad hearing as it is, but things were a bit woozy. I saw some blood spurt across the ring, land a bit three feet in front of me, like a faucet. I went, oh, that's weird. Then I come up straight and it just came right down my face. I went, oh, oh, that's bad. You don't have to do anything. Our referee is in communication with backstage. She was in communication with the doctor. So they're all talking, panicking, and relaying messages exactly what's going on. Because if they have to, they'll stop the match, especially in today's day and age, and knowing what we know about head injuries and the likes, I had to communicate very quickly that my senses were still there. I was still with it. It was just a very bad gash in my head. But initially, I was, oh, no, no, and the lights were getting very bright. Anyone that's gone out before knows that's what starts to happen before you go out. So I was able to regain my composure, kind of go over the initial shock of it, and continue the match, but not before. back and forth with the referee in the backstage to ensure that I was capable of continuing. I also rolled to the referee on the floor, sorry, the referee, the doctor on the floor. He was outside the cage. So there was a Hell In The Cell where basically it's a cage match with a very big cage around the ring and it's got a roof on it. So the doctor can't get there unless we open the door. So the camera stayed off me while I talked to him just so he could make sure that I was a hundred percent. He also had a little needle in his hand that he was going to stop the bleeding with. It was like, this would stop the bleeding. Well, how the fuck are you going to get it to me? I'm in a cage."
McIntyre is now currently in the midst of a feud with former Judgment Day member Damian Priest. You can read more about that here.
Elsewhere in the same interview, McIntyre looked back on some of the more physically imposing wrestlers he has shared a ring with. You can read more about that here.
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