In a recent interview with High Performance, Drew McIntyre opened up about his feud with CM Punk and how he felt about coming out on the losing end. According to McIntyre, he’s content with the outcome—at least from a character standpoint.
“From a character perspective, I was okay with it. For anyone’s been following our show, you know, with Drew McIntyre, the journey that I’ve been on, I was the number one good guy, world champion, all that jazz and was wronged in a lot of ways by certain people who were bad guys at the time.”
McIntyre went on to point out what he sees as inconsistencies in how certain WWE stars were portrayed over time, referencing major names like Roman Reigns and Jey Uso:
“Then these bad guys became good guys all of a sudden for no particular reason other than they took a vacation. Like Roman Reigns, our top star, disappeared for six months, drank some margaritas, got some abs, came back and because he’s a big star, people just forgot all the bad stuff he did to everybody. He’s back and he’s got abs now. He’s cool. We love him, and a couple of his family members started doing some cool things. Like his cousin Jey Uso says a fun word, Yeet. Does a little hand gesture. He didn’t do anything particular to turn good. He just started doing that and people just started cheering him all of a sudden because we’re very interactive. So if our fans like to chant things, they like to join in on the gestures.”
He also touched on the shift in storytelling direction under Triple H’s leadership:
“From my character perspective, those guys made my life a living hell. They screwed me up with the world title multiple times, beat me down with chairs violently. Those chairs are real. Multiple times, and suddenly they were getting cheered. So I had certain issues when usually historically in wrestling, if you’re good, you just get on with the good guys you’re bad you’re going with the bad guys. You know, since Triple H took charge of the creative process it’s very much based in reality now. These days, it’s not just the good guys and the bad guys fighting each other like it used to be.”
McIntyre’s comments offer a rare behind-the-scenes look into how WWE talent processes character development and shifting crowd dynamics in today’s landscape.
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