ROCK 108 Morning Show - WWE Superstar DREW McINTYRE

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Drew

McIntyre, our guest.

Good morning to you.

Oh, it is a good morning indeed.

It is actually sunny looking out the window in Nashville right now.

So that is good news because I plan to go out and about today with the wife and I hate, hate when it's cold.

It snows here a lot more than I thought it would snow.

I moved here seven months ago and it snowed about 10 times.

So where was home for you before you moved to Nashville then?

Florida,

sunny, sunny, sunny Florida.

Yeah.

We're growing up in Scotland, right?

Yes, 21 years in Scotland signed by WWE 21.

And when you did that, how did you find pro wrestling when you were a kid?

I found it on the television, but it wasn't necessarily myself that found it was my older cousins.

And there's about a 10 year age difference between myself and my older male cousins and my brothers a year younger.

My earliest memories are them watching WWE wrestling and hiding behind the sofa.

peering around like it was forbidden to watch and being captivated by all the superstars on the screen.

And that's where I knew and told my family, this is what I'm going to do one day, whatever drew.

And sure enough, I never deviated from the plan and started training when I was 15 years old.

And there was no wrestling in Scotland.

I had to travel 12 hours to get to the wrestling skill, 12 hours back, a 24 hour round trip, but it was nothing that was going to stop.

So who are some of your favorite WWE superstars when you were growing up?

Bretman Hart was always my favorite.

He was number one.

When I got to about age 13, 14, when Stone Cold was really kicking off, I really was into him like everybody else in the world.

The coolest thing about Stone Cold, as I've told him this personally, was I was always the wrestling kid, but I didn't talk about it because nobody watched it.

I said my one other friend and I came into school one day.

Suddenly, everyone was wearing Stone Cold merchandise.

I was like, what?

I stepped into the Twilight Zone and my uncle would say to me,

Man, did you see what Stone Cold did this week?

I was thinking Stone Cold someday is work.

Who's Stone Cold?

The only Stone Cold I know is the wrestler.

I think he was talking about wrestling and he made wrestling cool.

And it was so exciting to watch every

week.

WWE gets over to Europe a couple of times throughout the course of the year.

Do you get a chance to go back to Scotland and see your family there in Scotland?

Or how does that work for you?

We did on the first European tour back after the pandemic.

Our first tour was to the UK.

and it was so fortunate.

I hadn't seen my family in two years, the unfortunate part.

By the way, the tour was structured.

We were in Newcastle, London, Cardiff, and the last show was in Glasgow, Scotland, where I went to university for four years, 40 minutes from here in my hometown.

All my family and friends were there.

My wife flew over from America to be there and see my family be part of the show.

And I was in the main event against Jinder Mahal.

And for those that don't know, someone I've got a lot of history with, he was fired on the same day as me.

We spent a lot of time doing some not so exciting stuff on television when we were younger.

And we came a long way as men, as WWE performers.

And I remember telling him right before we walked out for that match, sold out Glasgow.

We've come a long way, buddy.

And we closed that show in Glasgow, in front of my family, in front of my country.

And then brought down all the WWE superstars and we all.

beat up Baron Corbin every single one of us.

It was so much fun.

Happy Corbin these days, but at the time it was barren.

We drank iron brew, Scotland's national drink.

We poured it all over and it was such a great time and a perfect way to end the tour.

Did you have anybody that you went to university with or school with that came out and saw you as Drew McIntyre there in Scotland?

Yeah, yeah, a lot of my university friends, like it was basically my course was mostly girls.

This was a bunch of girls and myself and one other guy.

And then most of them came along and it's weird because everybody's got kids and families now and

I've been over here so long, we don't get to see each other so much.

It's mostly through Facebook, I catch up, but then to see some of them and some of my school friends all grown up now and with their families.

It's just so bizarre.

When you're away from it for so long, you remember them, how they were 10 years ago or 14 years ago.

And you're like, oh my goodness, you're an adult now and you have kids and you look in the mirror and go, whoa, so am I. Look at that beard kind of growing that way.

You mentioned talking to Stone Cold.

What other WWE legends?

I mean, when you see them, do you?

Transport back to being a kid, or do you look to them for mentorship or some advice?

Certainly mentorship more than anything.

You have a moment, like occasionally it slips in your head because I was the biggest wrestling fan.

I still am, like how cool it is to be around some of these superstars.

But at the same time, it's more, these are my peers, these are people that I want to learn from and ask advice from and that I respect so much.

I remember coming over initially when I was 21, I was signed, I was on television about three weeks after I turned 22 when I just arrived in America.

I was in catering and I remember looking around and I saw like the undertaker passed me by, the teacher passed me by.

Vincent Mann sat in front of me at the table and started eating, he started asking me questions and I was like, what is going on here?

I was at university like four or five weeks ago in the student dorms.

Now I'm on WWE and I'm sitting eating in front of Vincent.

We had a conversation for about five minutes and at the time my accent was a hundred times thicker than it is right now.

He's nervous.

I'm pretty sure he didn't understand a word I said.

Then he walked off and I thought, I'm just reading my WWE career.

If it's a man, I had no idea what I just

said.

When you faced some of the champions that you faced in your career, what strategy do you have for facing someone like Roman Reigns versus facing someone like Brock Lesnar?

You faced them both.

Yeah, I mean, every opponent requires a different strategy.

With Roman these days, it's not just the case about, you know, he's an incredible in-ring performer with such experience at the top, top level.

But he's also got his family just lurking around on the outside.

The Usos are ready to get in the ring.

CD dies in the back of your head, as well as worrying about Roman's offense and the fact that he's willing to do whatever it takes to win that.

With someone like Brock, you just got to set yourself up for a fight.

There's no one coming to help him.

He doesn't need anybody to help him.

He's an animal.

You just got to be ready to go in there and just go gung-ho and hope he makes that mistake and take advantage of that mistake because he just comes like a charging bull.

And I rely on him coming like a charging bull because I'm pretty quick.

And I'll just sidestep or if he comes at me 100 miles an hour, I'm just going to do what I did in the past to him and jump up and kick him right in his face as he's running 100 miles an hour.

So everybody got really excited seeing you and Brock facing off each other at the Royal Rumble, which led up to your WWE Championship title reign in there at WrestleMania, right?

When you had, when you see him, he's coming to you at the ring.

What's going through your head at that point?

I've talked about this a few times and it's crazy to say, but I get so into the moment.

Whatever I feel backstage as real life through and how I feel when I walk out through the curtain or two different things, like what's going through my mind is I'm going to drop you Brock.

And if you try any funny business, I'm going to just embarrass you in front of the world right now.

I'm going to legitimately beat you up.

If people could read my thoughts, especially WrestleMania when I was wrestling Brock, it was inside the performance center.

Nobody was there.

It was just essentially Brock and I fighting in a bar with a ring set up and in the middle of it and Paul Heyman sitting on the outside.

I was literally having those thoughts go through my head.

You better not try anything or I'll drop you.

I genuinely believed it at the moment, but I got backstage and adrenaline goes down.

It was like, huh, it's funny.

I was thinking that they brought Lesnar, but it was true.

And I believed it in the moment because you have to believe in the moment.

Cause if you don't believe it, it's not right here in your eyes.

The fans at home and the fans in attendance won't believe it.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Brock Lesnar at the Dan Gable Wrestling Museum.

And while I was

about eye to eye with him.

He was three of me wide.

And I was like, as he shook my hand, I'm like, well, there goes my arm.

If he's going to take that off.

So I can only imagine what it's like to get hit by the man.

Now, for those of you watching on video right now, behind Drew, there are two items behind you.

One of them is a sword.

What is the other item, please?

That would be a very large chilele.

The thing that Shamus carries to the ring.

But as you see, my stick's bigger than Jamus's.

How nice is it to be able to carry a sword into your own work?

It's awesome.

I never thought I'd see the day where I get to run around and play He-Man at work.

I shit the sword up in the air and like whisper into my breath with the power of grayscale and all the flames go up around me.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

I mean, like I tell myself sometimes like, man, is this a bit too much?

And then I think to myself, like take myself out of Mr. Wrestling mode and think about when I was a kid,

uh, how cool this would be to see somebody on WWE TV with a giant sword shouldn't flames out.

And also if you're turning the channel for the first time to check out WWE, like that one's been on WWE, I've not watched it for a while and you see this giant Harry Scotsman springing a sword around.

That's pretty cool.

So I love it.

So let's go back to kid drew.

What's the coolest thing that that drew has nowadays?

Is it the action figure?

Is it the video game or is it being on television?

Which one is the best?

It's gotta be all of them.

Yeah, I know.

But being on TV, obviously, in WWE, that was the goal.

But as a side effect, I get amazing things, like the action figures, the cars, the stickers, and the special edition action figures, like my motorbike, I've never ridden a motorbike in my life.

I mean, of course I have.

And the ambulance, the wrecking slambulance, where I'm the special featured figure.

And again, thinking back to when I'm a kid and collecting the stickers and the cards and the figures and special edition figures that would only have someone like a stone cold or a rock on them or whatever, a Hulk Hogan when I was even younger.

And now I'm that guy that's pretty surreal.

We never lost on there.

I know that some people say that to use a wrestling term, you're a mark if you keep your own stuff.

Do you do you have a wall of your own things or a room dedicated to your career?

Yeah, I mean, I disagree with that for a start.

Most people that say that.

one I don't like to term mark to I think and I know a lot of people get to the end of their career and they're not doing it anymore and they think I wish I kept my stuff because in the end that's all you've got left is your memories and your reminders.

I don't have a shrine to myself though some of the guys I've walked into their shrines and like all right maybe this is too much but I do keep basically all my stuff I get my hands on and

I might keep some stuff handy.

That thing's cool.

It beside my computer screen here, you know, one year, I want a couple of slammies for superstar of the year.

That's awesome.

The fan superstar of the year, which meant the world to me.

And I have got replica, you know, WD, you might say replica.

I mean, I've got the actual WWE title.

I want, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to keep it, but I have it on the list.

It's the first one I ever won.

What's

Vince going to do?

Just sit down in front of you again and say, Hey, I need the belt back.

So I have this clip of this interview.

I was just in carry through brother.

I was just playing

along.

Something

stupid.

Hey, so you're facing Roman Reigns in the very venue that held the very first NWO pay per view called NWO sold out.

So the, let's go back in time.

Little fantasy booking here.

Would you have been on team WCW with Goldberg and DDP or would you have been in the NWO Drew?

Ooh, that's a good question.

I mean, chances are, Drew McIntyre, where I am now, I'd be fighting for the home team, I'd probably be on team WCW realistically, but if I had the opportunity to be in the NWO as one of the first three, maximum four, when it was super cool and original, that would be awesome, too hard to turn down.

If I was like member number 963, where it got to eventually, and it was no longer cool, and I was in the pink, black and

Bobergine version or whatever, and I wouldn't be too keen on being on that, but it wasn't original and that'd be cool, but I could definitely see Dromac entire.

It's like team WCW.

I could see you as a part of Wolfpack, you know, get a kill to the

nice... Wolfpack was pretty cool to be fair, actually.

You know, the Wolfpack thing.

I remember that action figure.

Hey, that was really cool.

Wolfpack Nash and Hall and the like.

So yeah, original three, four or Wolfpack.

There we go.

Nice.

So Drew, I appreciate the time.

Last question for you.

I know you travel a lot.

You work out a lot.

What are three to five songs on either a road trip playlist or a workout playlist?

It changes all the time.

I thought better right here.

I can just look at some of the, some of the recent ones.

Uh, let's see.

Recently I've been listening to again, cause it changes all the time.

The distillers, if anyone remembers them.

beat your heart out, drain the blood, appear to be a couple of top ones.

Janice Joplin.

Janice

Joplin,

okay.

Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox story has been a recent one.

Oasis, which is a frequent one for me.

Outlaw, I can't say the second word, Waylon Jennings.

Uh, very good song.

And, uh, the Wayne's world soundtrack and spine shank.

So that's my mushroom

spine shank.

Yes.

Drew McIntyre, you may have picked my next throwback Thursday track from spine shank or anything off the Wayne's world soundtrack.

Oh yeah.

That was a good, I was playing the Wayne's world soundtrack and the car and the wife and I had to go a driver.

I remember Spain shank was during a workout.

I assume, or maybe just sitting chilling out.

I don't know about a new disease or synthetic when I'm sitting around.

That's awesome.

Drew McIntyre.

I appreciate the time.

Look forward to you beating Roman Reigns at the aligned energy powerhouse in the very same venue that NWO sold out was held in.

Thank you so much for the time.

Thank you buddy.

Thank you for that tip bed right there.

I did not know unless we're sold out was that very cool.

That's right.

We'll get you in the black and white and maybe you'll come out to the NWO thing.

Don't tell me, don't tell me if I give in to the right people, I would absolutely do it.

There was a BW of so you see that was pretty cool.

Maybe I can start with the DW.

Yes.

Dude, I appreciate you.

Thank you.

Take care.

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