Drew McIntyre is on the best run of his pro wrestling career and some of his best work has come during his feud with CM Punk.
While speaking on Chris Van Vliet’s “INSIGHT” podcast/YouTube show, McIntyre talked about his character work being the best of his career:
“I mean, it’s all across the board. With the new management coming in, new creative process, Hunter kind of leading the ship and giving a lot of people, basically everybody, but specifically the ones that have been there for a minute, the chance to hey, if you’ve got more to show, then show it. This is your chance. There’s no wrong answers. Go for it, and if it fails, it’s on you. If you’re willing to take that wrist slap, and I’m willing to take a wrist slap, a fining, a firing to be true to myself and the relationship now I have with creative, how much they know the character, because it’s essentially me with the volume turned up. When it comes to the Punk stuff, especially because I can’t stand the guy, it’s easy, but it’s awesome. To see across the board, not just for myself, just how many characters have stepped up and standing out right now and RAW is a lot easier to watch. Three hours is still a lot, but it’s a lot easier to digest these days. The show flows so well. There’s so many popular characters. It’s amazing just to see wrestling so healthy and everybody thriving.”
On Batista helping Drew McIntyre get into the movie, “The Killer’s Game”:
“He called me and had a pitch. I thought it was just the catch-up, and he mentioned that he’s working on his new movie, The Killer’s Game. Told me a bit of the premise, which I loved. The hitman that takes out the bad guys and is never going to have that happy part of his life. He does what he does, and he finds the right girl and everything’s perfect until it’s not perfect, and he decides to take a hit on himself. I’m not going to ruin it any more than that, but it gets pretty exciting. A lot of people come to kill him, including this guy. Then you need some extra characters. The director, J.J. Perry had said,’ I’ve got this idea for these Scottish brothers, the Mackenzie brothers. I have one of them. The other one, I just want to be, you know, the big, imposing guy that can feasibly and realistically beat you up. I just want them to have these thick Scottish accents and be just wild, kind of drinking party badasses that are somewhat unintelligible because of their thick accents’, and Dave basically said, ‘I actually know that guy. He exists’, and he called me.”
On the Jack Perry photo:
“I was flying to LA and they just did a show the night before. I’d seen Roderick Strong at the airport, a buddy of mine, and we got to catch up,which was awesome. He was heading to an ROH show I believe. Then on the flight, I just saw Jack, had a little chat with him and his misses, and then we snapped a picture, and the internet had a freaking meltdown. It was hilarious.”
On how long the photo stayed online:
“I think it lasted 45 minutes. The numbers I heard were 2 million impressions or something insane for 45 minutes. It was pretty wild. People enjoyed that immensely. So, yeah, I’m always dancing on that line of what’s acceptable, not acceptable and make people question things.”
On if he was asked to remove the photo”
“Did someone tell me? Was it by design? Did I choose to remove it? I’ll never answer that question, because I love people asking questions.”
On his Triple Threat WrestleMania 39 match with Gunther and Sheamus:
“I’d say bell to bell, the fact that it was at WrestleMania, that could be the best match, probably is the best match of my career. I mean, how can you top being at WrestleMania, having a match that people say is one of the greatest Mania matches of all time, but perhaps the greatest Triple Threat of all time, and also the history I have with Sheamus for the past 20 years, in the ring and out the ring, everything we’ve gone through together, and then adding Gunther, somebody who’s just very similar to us, such an incredible physical in-ring talent. Put us all together and it was amazing. I remember not even 10 minutes into the match, I think it was after Sheamus gave me about 40 beats to the chest and the face, the crowd went crazy and they’re chanting, I believe, ‘This is awesome.’ I was like, wow, we’re not even getting started. Wait until you see, and also, why am I seeing double at this point? That was cool. The story for the match was cool as well because eventually Gunther disappeared for a while and Sheamus and I have always dreamed about a one-on-one match at WrestleMania. We went back and forth for 10 straight minutes, Claymores and Brogues and hitting our bombs. It was like we’re having that singles match. We forgot about Gunther, and at the right moment, he just reappears, boom, steals it, and heads out. So that was cool as well that Sheamus and I kind of got a one-on-one match at Mania we should have had the year prior.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Chris Van Vliet with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
