Drew McIntyre – ‘I Was Right About UK Pay-Per-Views Even Before Clash At The Castle’

Speaking on a recent edition of the “Under the Ring” podcast, Drew McIntyre weighed in on the build to Clash At The Castle 2022 and his labors to get WWE management on board with a UK-hosted pay-per-view event.

McIntyre will challenge GUNTHER for the Intercontinental Championship this weekend at WWE SummerSlam 2023.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On his support for a UK PLE before Clash was planned: “Man, it feels good to be right. I don’t like to say I told you so but… [laughs]. I had been harassing management for many, many years. When it came to the stadium show in the U.K, I’ve always known the passion for the UK fans, I knew that they would show up if they were getting something that was theirs and I know financially how good it would be for the company. Obviously that’s not my [place], it isn’t for me to say, ‘We should just do this’ because I don’t understand the logistics and that was the excuse I got initially. But when it got to the point where we were doing super shows in places like Australia, suddenly things like logistics and time difference raised my eyebrow. I said, ‘Okay, we really should be looking at this.’ Eventually, I heard rumblings of the conversation of [the UK] maybe getting a stadium show and eventually, I was able to get involved and speak to the government. It was so cool to finally get a significant stadium show at Clash At The Castle, and also to be in the main event and to hear the fans.”

On what international success means for the industry: “Then to see every show afterwards, seeing the TV [tapings] selling out left and right and just in general, the product across the world, WWE is so hot right now selling out all over the place. You get big shows in places like Puerto Rico and the UK, to see how passionate the fans are, hopefully shows the US fans [that they] better up their game or we may start taking our shows elsewhere across the world. We want to hear that kind of noise in every single building we go to, not just somewhere outside the US.”

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