Drew McIntyre has revealed that the match did not “live up to expectations”: “The crowd was a little bloated.”

Drew McIntyre has climbed many WWE mountains: from falling career to winning the Royal Rumble to winning the WWE Championship at WrestleMania. Not every moment can be updated as expected, and McIntyre experienced this in one of the most enduring paid events in the WWE.

On his way to the WWE SummerSlam in August, McIntyre hoped to bring out his best friend Jinder Mahalen. A match between McIntyre and Mahal, which lasted 4:40, did not live up to McIntyre’s expectations. The former WWE Champion opened the competition in an interview with CBS Sports ahead of WWE Day 1 on January 1, where he will face Madcap Moss.

“No, certainly not,” he said. “I did not expect Becky [Lynch] back. He gave that pre-match reaction to the crowd at that moment. Then when they were expecting a long game with Becky and Bianca [Belair], the wind blew the sales, the match being 20-something seconds. After that, the crowd was a little bloated. The reaction was not what I expected.

“It may not have been what I expected in the game, but it was a great victory for Drew McIntyre on a big stage, a very big victory. Even if I say sometimes, ‘I want to go there and have the best game possible », Sometimes you have to save yourself and protect the character and raise the character. That was lifting Drew McIntyre and he did that on a big stage. “

See the full interview with Drew McIntyre below.

McIntyre was at the forefront of WWE programming during the time of the unpopular pandemic, which successfully captured the WWE Championship at the main event of WrestleMania 36. It’s a moment he likes; however, it doesn’t fully measure up to McIntyre’s full-blown WrestleMania public ability to raise WWE gold.

“I’m happy with everything I’ve done in my career, especially since I returned to the WWE,” McIntyre said. “I want to, absolutely. I’ll work for it, but there are a lot of things I can control and I work as hard as I can for everything I can control. If that doesn’t happen, it doesn’t mean. But I’ll get a significant moment in Mania. not in the last game, but in the last game. I will do that, but I will have that significant moment.

“I won the cap two years ago without anyone there. It meant the world to me and it was necessary in those times. Next year, I’m fighting for the title. Again, my two years in a row, what are the chances. I will drown my moment. Then I drown so I don’t get my moment in front of the fans. So maybe Mania won’t be my best charm, but I have a good feeling that it will be a significant moment for Drew at a Mania “Everyone thinks I’m already forty … Even though it feels like I’ve always been, I’m still 36. I still have a long way to go.”

McIntyre says he will return to the world championship scene with Roman Reigns vs. Against the winner Brock Lesnar. It’s a salty opportunity to compete for the Universal title, but McIntyre has enjoyed his time away from the main event.

“You have to try new things,” McInty said. “When you’re a champion, you really want to play everything. You’re expected to play everything. When you’re not a champion you can throw some things against the wall and see what sticks. What works and what doesn’t. There’s not so much when you don’t take part in that title scene. It gives the fans a chance to see it in a different light. They see you doing something else. And in the end, hopefully, they’ll get it. ” This is driving me crazy. I want to see you there again … “they say.

“It’s nice to run away, to add a few layers to the character. Maybe it’s like they like to say in the fighting industry, and the fans start to get behind you and start after the title. Because you know, interest and money.