Drew McIntyre has confirmed reports that he stormed out of this year’s WWE Royal Rumble match after entering at number 17. The match lasted over 26 minutes before Damian Priest eliminated him.
He got backstage and was reportedly shouting and swearing before leaving the arena. It was reported afterward that he was upset at someone in the match “having to get their moves in.”
It was believed to be LA Knight, as McIntyre felt Knight got in the way during his planned elimination, and they had to redo it. McIntyre spoke about the situation while appearing on the Getting Over podcast.
“Not all the details are accurate, but yeah, I was fuming (at WWE Royal Rumble), and I let everybody know what I thought, and then I left. Because I’ve learned as an adult nothing good happens when you’re highly emotional, so just calm down, get the facts, then deal with it because I don’t want to punch somebody in the head and be unprofessional and then find out facts later I didn’t know about. It was the grown-up thing to do.
For me, it’s just if I ever feel somebody did something disrespectful, went into business for themselves and the likes. That’s when I get frustrated, and sometimes it’s not what it appears on the surface, and you have to get all the facts together, and you have to just calm down. It’s just fun that every time I have a moment — it doesn’t happen often.”
Priest finally jokes about it on the promo because that’s all he’s got aside, ‘Drew complains all the time. He’s always gonna leave the building’ and I was like, ‘Come on, mate, it’s a couple times in a few years.’ Consider I’m Scottish, I got an anger problem, that’s not too bad. Also, if I stayed, I might have punched some people out and been like, oh, actually, it wasn’t their fault. Wakey, wakey.”
McIntyre is slated to work a singles match with Damian Priest at WrestleMania 41.
H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription
