Drew McIntyre has confirmed that he left the WWE Royal Rumble early because he was upset, but not all the details were correct.
McIntyre entered the Men’s Rumble match at number 17 and lasted 27 minutes before being eliminated by LA Knight. Shortly after the show went off the air, news broke that McIntyre abruptly left Lucas Oil Stadium and allegedly said that someone was ‘having to get their moves in’ in the match.
When watching the match back, it was seen that McIntyre’s elimination was not as smooth as others with McIntyre and Damian Priest colliding with others shortly before his exit. Follow-up reports indcated that the individual at fault was LA Knight, who made an ‘errant movement’ during the elimination spot.
Appearing on the Getting Over podcast, the 3-time World Champion confirmed that he was angry over what took place and did leave, but not all the details published were correct:
“I mean, 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 (he laughed). (Damian) 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.”
Drew McIntyre WrestleMania 41 Match Confirmed
Following the Royal Rumble, McIntyre and Priest have been at odds for weeks with both men attacking each other on SmackDown. During a SmackDown taping in London, Priest slammed McIntyre onto the windscreen of a car, which saw McIntyre suffer an eye injury and put his involvement at WrestleMania in doubt. However, the match has since been made official for WrestleMania 41.
H/t to Post Wrestling.
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