Drew McIntyre Still Wants To Hold The WWE Title In Front Of Live Crowds: ‘I Will Get My Moment’
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Drew McIntyre is still chasing the chance to have a triumphant victory in front of a live crowd.
McIntyre won the WWE Championship in an empty arena at WrestleMania 36, and as the challenger, he lost a chance to regain the title at WrestleMania 37 when fans returned for the first time.
Now that WWE is preparing to return to some semblance of normalcy by getting back on the road, McIntyre wants to get the moment he hasn’t had yet. In an appearance on Out of Character with Ryan Satin, McIntyre made it clear that he still hopes to carry the title in front of a live crowd.
“I said throughout all the media like, throughout the pandemic that I want to be the first person to walk out …as champion so I can raise the title and go, ‘Woo, we’re back, we did it,'” said McIntyre. “It’s awesome and I’m the first person that came out, and I got the chance to kinda do that at WrestleMania this past year, and I was the first person to walk out. I wasn’t champion, [but] what a feeling that was, just to get that little tease of having the fans there.”
McIntyre also acknowledged that, as the face of WWE throughout the pandemic, he was constantly on WWE programming, so he felt some concern that the fans would turn on him at WrestleMania 37
“And just coming out [to the ring], and in the back of my mind before I walked out, thinking like, ‘Man, you’ve been in their face a lot for the past year,'” said McIntyre. “‘There’s a lot of Drew content out there.’ And our fans sometimes maybe turn on the flavor of the month or flavor of the year, and especially if they’ve been very much in their face, in every title match etc, so that did go through my mind before I walked out.”
But McIntyre recalled how much he enjoyed hearing the fans’ positive response at WrestleMania, and while he hopes to get the WWE Championship back at Hell in a Cell, he continues to dream of getting his own WrestleMania moment.
“To hear all the cheers and stuff when I walked out and know that this is working and see their faces and how excited they were, that was such a cool feeling,” said McIntyre. “And I didn’t get my ‘Mania moment with fans, I’m still searching for that, so hoping for that in the future.
“But yeah I would love to win the title back from Lashley and walk out in front of the fans once we get back on the road as WWE Champion. And if somehow he screws me out of it, I’m anxious to keep the title, but I will get my moment.”
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