Drew McIntyre wasn’t the only one who had an issue with an unknown star in the Men’s Royal Rumble match. As first reported by PWInsider.com, McIntyre was upset and stormed out of the match.
It was reported that something went wrong with the elimination as once McIntyre got to the backstage area, he was “screaming and cursing” that “someone had to get their moves in” at the expense of a number of stories in the match. It was added that they were told, “McIntyre pretty loudly stormed out of the building and was gone well before the Rumble match ended.”
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted the locker room was upset with one star for trying to get themselves over.
Meltzer said, “I did hear about Drew. The Drew story, which Mike Johnson broke, that’s just, that’s a legit story. Okay, so Drew came back, and he was mad about somebody who because at first, it was funny, it came out, you know, I heard it, and then someone goes, Ah, it’s just, don’t worry. It’s a work. And then that same person came back later and just goes, Oh God. Just, I just figured he was doing that because he was in front of everybody and just said, there’s a guy that a lot of people were pissed at in that match with the idea that he was trying to get himself over and not the match over, and he was doing things. I want to mention his name. It’ll probably come out tomorrow because it’s only one person telling me the name, but it’s multiple people telling me that the Drew thing was he wasn’t happy. It’s not an angle. If they end up doing an angle with the person later, there’s no hints of anything. I heard that Drew was not the only one unhappy about the situation. It was nothing that I noticed in the match….I didn’t notice anybody trying to show off or anything like that doing stuff that they weren’t supposed to do, or whatever. But there was more than one person you know in that match who said the same thing.”
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