After getting into it a bit with Adam Pearce, you'd think Drew McIntyre could drive off into the sunset, enjoy the rest of his night, and reload for the final RAW of May, where plenty of his co-workers will be coming off of a direct flight from Saudi Arabia.
… but if you expected that, you don't know the “Scottish Warrior,” as he is nothing if not a Keyboard Warrior who is all too eager to use his platform to get an unfiltered message out about Pearce, CM Punk – obviously – and “Paper Champion” Damian Priest to his 1.2 million followers and beyond.
“Management and Adam Pearce think they can silence me. They should already know, I'm Drew McIntyre, and I am very, very good at this. I'm always one step ahead of everybody. Bring me to the show, try not to put me on TV. No, I'll force my way on TV, and in the end, I got this platform that's growing. I will weaponize it, and I will say what I want, when I want. There's not a damn thing you can do to stop me. So as I was saying on RAW, it's all falling apart for you,” Drew McIntyre explained to WWE fans via Fightful.
“[Damian] Priest. You lost control of your little emo group. You've got people coming for you, and you've barely even started with all the extracurricular that comes with being the guy. I'm having to do that for you. This is very much my locker room. Always has been. My turf, where I grew up, and I'm the champion, whether I got the title right now or not. It's just a matter of time before I get that title back. You made one good point last week though. It wasn't about getting attacked from behind by that bitch CM Punk, it wasn't about leaving right away after the match, which I should have done, even though I literally spelled out what I planned to do, looking for your cheap pops. It certainly wasn't about recycling the same joke Sheamus made already, getting your was beat by the one-arm man [fake laughs]. Again, spinning things, looking for that cheap pop, just like him. No, I gave you the blueprint on how to cash in. Look what happened? You ran with it, you won. So in a way, Drew McIntyre beat Drew McIntyre. It didn't matter who was holding the briefcase because I'm such leader and honest to my own detriment at times with my advice.
“But here's the truth. I didn't want you to beat Seth. I made that very clear, no matter how you want to spin it. Watch the footage back. I hate explaining myself, but society has such short attention spans these days, I literally need to. I wanted to beat the real champion, the man who made the title. So credit where credit is due, just because I think you're spreading yourself way too thin. Again, more advice that might hurt me in the future, you're not the man that RAW needs as champion right now. Not the world champion. It doesn't mean I don't value you. Quite the opposite in fact. You're a specimen, a beast in the ring. You've shown you more than belong, and I've got a place for you on my show, right near the top. Right up there. Unfortunately, you reached your peak right around the same time Drew McIntyre started to reach his. That's it. See you soon, champ.”
With neither Priest nor McIntyre currently booked for King and Queen of the Ring, the runway appears to be clear for their match in mid-June at Clash at the Castle, where the “Scottish Warrior” challenged Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship last year. If McIntyre was incredibly salty about losing out on his big moment last year, he has a chance to gun for his moment this year once more against a much more beatable champion.
Joe Coffey stands behind Drew McIntyre ahead of Clash at the Castle.
While plenty of fans had opinions on Drew McIntyre's social media promo, one unlikely occupant of his QTs was Joe Coffey, the NXT stalwart who recently returned to Orlando alongside the rest of Gallus after helping to train Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for WrestleMania 40. Call it Scottish wrestlers supporting Scottish wrestlers, but Coffey fully backed McIntyre, believing that he is a true truthteller in the WWE Universe.
“You know the thing that amazes me is that see when this man talks how many people in all the rosters and all the people behind the barrier want to do this (covers eyes), this (covers mouth) and that (covers ears),” Joe Coffey explained via WrestleTalk. “Truth hurts, it's amazing how much I agree with everything that Drew McIntyre is saying. Well done, finally someone with a set of stones will stand up and say what he feels.”
Whoa, could McIntyre, after watching both The Bloodline and Judgment Day best him with their numbers advantage, squad up with one of the most dangerous factions in NXT history, forming a Brawling Brutes-esque faction with Joe Coffey as his mid-carder and the duo of Mark Coffey and Wolfgang fighting for the tag titles? If the goal is to leave Clash at the Castle with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship no matter what, then calling on Gallus to ensure his win feels like a risk worth taking.
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