Former two times WWE World Champion Drew McIntyre who is also a former two times WWE Tag Team Champion recently discussed how he is planning to win back the WWE Universe.
McIntyre made his WWE main roster debut in 2009 after spending one successful year in the Florida Championship Wrestling which was the development Territory of WWE back then. In this one year time period, McIntyre won the FCW World Heavyweight Championship one time.
Smackdown – Drew McIntyre Discusses Winning Back The WWE Universe
After making the main roster debut in 2009 he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship very early. He started having an undefeated run until it was finally beaten by the Big Red Machine Kane. He was portrayed as The Chosen One by Vince McMahon. He was actually very much a favourite of Vince, he really believed in McIntyre.
But ultimately it was understood that he was not ready for the push he was receiving. As a result he was promoted to a jobber role. And in 2014 he was released by WWE. In 2017 he returned to WWE again after spending three years on the independent circuit and some other promotions as well. Since then he is going really strong.
He won the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 36 after earning the spot in the main event of the show by winning the Royal Rumble match in the same year. He dropped the title at Hell in a Cell to Randy Orton only to win it back in only two weeks’ times again.
Champion Drew McIntyre who is also a former two times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke with Shakiel Mahjouri from CBS Sports where he discussed how he is planning to win back the WWE Universe. He said;
“I remember that particular time. It was amazing that the fans stayed so positive for such a long time and the only way we could gauge it was social media. Generally, they are the harshest critics. So they were positive for such a long time until I think I had wrestled with Lashley a couple of times. Even though it had technically only been maybe two matches, it felt like it’d be going on for a long time.
“Perhaps we didn’t do as many interesting things as we could and should have done to keep fans invested. I think they were just over that particular storyline. By the time fans were coming back, there was still a bit of a feeling like we’d had a lot of Drew in our face, which we had. Realistically, we had Drew McIntyre at the top of the card for a year and a half, which in today’s day and age might as well be 20 years with the short attention spans that people have.
“I was aware of that fully when the crowds were coming back, especially at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view… So as soon as I got the opportunity to cover for all earlier in the night, I had the money in the bag. If you go back and watch it, you hear the initial reaction. When I appeared, I was just glad to hear the noise. Like there was a lot of cheers, but also some booze mixed in there as well, which. Like had before.
“If you watch the duration of the promo, I was back to being just regular Drew. I wasn’t trying any outside-the-box things like ‘Story Time with Drew’.I instantly dropped that crap the second fans came back because I knew it wasn’t gonna work with a live audience. You could hear them cheering by the end of the interview.
“From that moment forward, I kept with what I know works, what brought me to the dance as a main event player, which is just me with the volume turned up. I had fun on the rest of my time on Raw with a live audience being there. Outside of the title scene, fans really started paying attention again and the move to Smackdown was like a whole fresh coat of paint all over again. That was the kind of rebirth again of Drew McIntyre.