After watching Drew McIntyre tee off on CM Punk during the opening segment of RAW, things took a turn when the “Scottish Warrior” turned his attention to the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest, who cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to end his reign at just under six minutes. Just as McIntyre began to question the validity of Priest's reign, the “Archer of Infamy” marched down to the ring to shut things down right on the spot, letting fans know that he has no issue actually handling his business in person, instead of a complicated game of phone tag.

“Drew, you got some serious issues, dude,” Damian Priest told Drew McIntyre and the crowd on RAW. “Since you can’t shut that hole in your face, why don’t you do something different tonight? I’m thinking, you actually say what you’re gonna say, but say it to somebody’s face.”

“I would love to say it to somebody’s face, but if you were listening, CM Punk keeps running away from me every single week,” Drew McIntyre responded. “But since you’ve been a man, you’re stepping up to me right now, I’m gonna say something positive about you right now, because I know your story. You have a very, very inspirational story. You’ve worked you’re a**e off for years, you’ve put a shift in, you’ve paid your dues, you deserve all the success in the world, you just don’t deserve to be champion. My next door neighbor, Dave, has a very inspirational story. Doesn’t mean he should be World Heavyweight Champion. This is a case of the title making the man. The RAW Title’s in its infant stages, it needs the man to make the title. It needs Drew McIntyre. And you knew you couldn’t beat me one-on-one, so you had to use that briefcase and-”

Annoyed with McIntyre's reasoning, Priest cut in, attempting to frame the narrative in a way he found most correct, as opposed to the usual style of storytelling the “Scottish Warrior” typically takes things.

“Stop, stop, stop, man. You are delusional, dog. No no no, you’re out here blaming everybody else for your failures. Let me ask you a question, did you not choose this life? I mean you chose to be a WWE Superstar, right?” Priest asked, which McIntyre acknowledged.

“I’m still a champion. But check it out, you know what you should choose to do though, Drew? Choose to find a mirror, look at the reflection, and blame that a**h*le. I’m gonna break it down for you, all right? I wanted to cash in on Seth Rollins, man. I really did. And then you and I, we could have went to war at WrestleMania. But you stopped me from cashing in. Multiple times. That’s your fault. Wait, then, you explained to the world that if I was smart, I’d wait for you to beat Seth, and then cash in on you. What happened? That’s on you.

“Let’s talk about WrestleMania, Drew. You finally achieved your goal. All you had to do was leave. All you had to do was grab your wife’s hand and go enjoy your moment. And then what happened? (Spanish). You saw Punk, and you made Punk more important than yourself, this championship, and you made Punk more important than your wife. Wait, Drew, let’s not forget about the part that you proceeded to get your a** whooped by a one-armed man. So yeah, I cashed in. Now you know what, your elbow’s gonna heal, you’re gonna get cleared. So what? You want a shot at the World Title? Fine. You got it. But check this out, Drew. You can call me a Paper Champion all you want, but when I’m done with you, you’re gonna eat those words. Now y’all can rise to that.”

Whoa, could McIntyre and Priest go to war at Clash at the Castle this summer when the former's elbow hopefully lands a clean bill of health? Or could McIntyre be closer to recovery than fans may have initially assumed, with the broken elbow more work than shoot if you know what I mean? Either way, it would appear Priest isn't looking for ways to avoid McIntyre and is instead willing to take him on straight up when both men are 100 percent healthy.

Damian Priest reflects on his Backlash match with Bad Bunny.

Stopping by the Rob Brown Show to talk about his last year of success in WWE, Damian Priest reflected on his Backlash match with Bad Bunny, an effort that really helped to kickstart the momentum that came to a fever pitch at WrestleMania 40 against Seth Rollins. While Priest obviously didn't secure the win at Backlash last year, he is proud of the effort and happy to have gotten it in against Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico.

“It's one of those things that it goes beyond one match, one performance, one win or loss. What we did culturally was big. We set the tone for the idea that WWE would do all these events outside of the United States and have success. You listen to the crowd; you saw the records that were broken. It's obvious that this could be done everywhere. Not to say that the company wasn't going to go in this direction anyway, but I think it made everybody feel a little more comfortable knowing that there is a positive to come,' Damian Priest told Rob Brown Show via Fightful.

“You had Bad Bunny and myself doing something special on the island. We fought for the show, by the way. It wasn't guaranteed that Backlash was going to be in Puerto Rico. Bad Bunny and I specifically fought for it. We fought to get others like Savio Vega and Carlito involved and other Latinos, in general, on the show. We needed them to represent. No matter where their heritage was from, we needed representation. That set the table for things like Rhea Ripley headlining in Perth and that show revolving around her. We have Berlin coming up, and that's going to be Gunther's domain. He was Scotland, and that's Drew McIntyre's domain. It's cool that we're going to all these different places internationally and having someone to represent them. That shows the expansion of the company, the individuals, and our fanbase growing.”

Win or no win, Priest's match at Backlash felt like a big deal within WWE, as it helped to usher in a series of international Pay-Per-Views headlined by McIntyre, Ripley, and soon Gunther with Bash in Berlin. That event showed WWE that Priest could hang in the main event scene, and one year into the future, he's fully entrenched in that scene as WWE's second World Champion. If that isn't progress, what is?