Former two times WWE Champion Drew McIntyre recently talked about the male model gimmick that he almost ended up portraying. The current gimmick of Drew is quite different from the one he played during his first WWE run. He started an undefeated streak which in the end was broken by Kane.
Previously, Drew McIntyre was signed by WWE in 2010 after seeing his impressive performance in the Indies. Vince McMahon tried to push him but it could not work well for the Scottish professional wrestler.
Drew McIntyre On A Potential Male Model Gimmick
In 2014 he was released by the company and he made his way to the independent circuit and some other promotions like the Impact wrestling. He became quite successful in the process winning so many Championship throughout the globe.
In 2017 WWE decided to rehire Drew McIntyre and since then he has been doing really very good. In 4 years time in WWE he won the NXT Championship once, the Royal Rumble match in 2020, and the WWE World Championship twice. He also won two Slammy Awards last year.
The Scottish Psychopath recently appeared on Out of Character where he talked about the male model gimmick that he did not play. He said;
“When I was about to come out of FCW, I remember the character, and some people have heard of this but many haven’t, but my character pitch was gonna be The Runway Man where I was gonna be a male model.
“I think this is what became of Fandango eventually. It was kinda modified, but yeah, there was gonna be a catwalk and I was gonna walk to the ring as a male model. That was a whole thing and I was like ‘Alright, I’ll make it work’. So it was pitched to me while I was working on stuff.
“I was 265 when I was tagging with Wade in FCW and I leaned down to the size of the chosen one which was about 230. I was getting ready to be a male model and then I went to TV, I had my sit down with Vince, and I made it clear that I didn’t love it but I’ll make it work. Whatever he thinks is best but thankfully he did not feel it was best and just kinda let me be myself and did the chosen one thing. But I was almost the Runway Man.”
Credit: Out of Character. H/T 411Mania