With Clash at the Castle rapidly approaching, Drew McIntyre landed in his university town of Glasgow to have a special pre-show kickoff event moderated by Michael Cole in front of his friends, family, and countrymen, and needless to say, they were very much in his corner.
While Damian Priest attempted to talk a big game, fighting with the crowd as much as his in-ring foe, McIntyre exuded much more of an air of confidence, as he's ready to make his dreams come true and break “El Champion's” reign before his very eyes.
“I can see the fire in your eyes,” Drew McIntyre told fans via Fightful. “People are gonna be talking about this match for a long time, but unfortunately for you, I dream broken dreams; I make them come true, mate, and tomorrow night, I'm gonna make them for you.”
Oh snap, could this be a sign that McIntyre is looking to bring back “Broken Dreams,” his former theme that fans have been clamoring to see return pretty much since it was replaced? Or did he simply choose his words in such a way to pop his local crowd, as they certainly know the reference and popped hard for it? Either way, it's clear McIntyre has plenty to fight for in Glasgow, as he will be without his wife, who won't be traveling to the show because she's undergoing emergency surgery in America.
“I've very much got my eye on the ball. I've never ever been this focused in my life. I didn't think this was possible. The last Clash was a stab through my heart, my family's heart, the whole of the UK. I cannot let it happen again in Scotland,” McIntyre declared. “I'm back home, I couldn't have dreamt of this moment. I'm gonna have my people there, my family there, a redo, a chance to make this right. I wasn't gonna talk about it, but I can't stop thinking about it, the one person who's not gonna be there is my wife. She's in surgery right now, emergency surgery. She told me, I want you to go there and bring that title home, and I'm gonna bring that title home.”
Unfortunately for Priest, his title reign may truly be a transitional run, it would appear he's facing off against the most locked-in version of the “Scottish Warrior” fans have seen in a very long time, with all of the typical goofiness and uber-online persona pushed aside in favor of a new, killer mentality. With his wife's honor on his mind, it's clear McIntyre will sooner die in the ring than leave Scotland without a championship belt around his waist.
Clash at the Castle is the biggest match of Drew McIntyre's career.
Speaking of Drew McIntyre's excitement to secure the big one in front of his fellow countrymen in Glasgow, Scotland, the “Scottish Warrior” discussed the importance of this match in conversation with The Indian Express and let it be known that, after having his moment stolen by The Bloodline last year, his match this year against Damian Priest has the potential to be the defining moment of his in-ring career.
“When I look back at all the biggest moments I've had, especially in WWE, my first world title win was in the height of the pandemic, nobody there. The second world title win, very much the same, in the ThunderDome. Looking to the last Clash at the Castle, it was perfect. It was in Wales, it was in the UK, where I'm from, and it was perfect, until it wasn't perfect when Solo Sikoa debuted and screwed me out of the title and ruined that moment,” Drew McIntyre told The Indian Express via 411 Mania.
“This time, we get a redo. We get a redo, not just in Wales, not just in the UK, but specifically in Scotland, where I'm from, where I never imagined there would be a big WWE PLE with myself in the main event and the world title. This one has to be done right.”
While McIntyre has accomplished a lot during his WWE career, one thing he hasn't done is win a WWE world championship in front of fans, with his title wins famously coming during the pandemic when fans were watching from home as part of the ThudnerDome video wall. Factor in the match being in the same town he went to college in, literally, and if McIntyre can secure the W at Clash at the Castle, it will truly serve as the high-water match of his Hall of Fame-bound career.
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