Drew McIntyre had a fantastic 2024, winning the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania before embarking on a summer-long feud with CM Punk that gave us many of the year's best matches.
However, heading into this year's Show of Shows, the Scottish Warrior doesn't have a main event match. Instead, he'll likely go one-on-one with Damian Priest. There's a story there - Priest cashed in on him last year and they battled at Clash at the Castle - but many feel McIntyre deserves more.
Now, the former WWE Champion himself has weighed in and told The Daily Star that, with six weeks to go until WrestleMania takes place, fans might benefit from showing some patience.
"We’ve still got six weeks until Mania and anything can change in that time," McIntyre started. "I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t p****d off at not being in one of the title matches after the 2024 I had, but it’s just because I’m so highly competitive and sometimes, you know, there’s only a few spots."
"I appreciated when the fans reaction was, oh my goodness, it’s Priest and Drew, there’s nothing there. I’m like bloody hell, give us a chance to tell the story," he continued. "The thing with Priest has been going on since last year’s WrestleMania when he cashed in on me after I was assaulted by Punk."
"He doesn’t know how to succeed unless it is at my expense. Elimination Chamber I claymore Cena. Instead of going ‘I’ll let Drew pin Cena first’, he eliminates me. It’s the only way he knows how to succeed because he is a vulture. A parasite. A big emo vulture. Finally, he’s got my attention because they’ve got nothing else."
"I stomped him in his big stupid head last week and if he wants to keep coming back for more, if it goes all the way to Mania, it’s a year in the making story and he deserves the biggest stage of all to get his stupid looking arse kicked," McIntyre concluded.
He makes plenty of valid points here and, when you look back at McIntyre's clashes with Priest in 2024, this match actually makes all the sense in the world for both men (their brief feud last year was overshadowed by McIntyre's issues with Punk).
Back to WrestleMania, McIntyre later reiterated his belief that the UK will eventually get to host the Showcase of the Immortals.
"These days I have a very different mindset than what I used to have, in that anything and everything is possible. It’s not just that there’s going to be a big show in the UK at some point. I believe there is going to be a WrestleMania."
"I’ve said that from the moment I started believing that anything is possible. So if you want your headline, John Cena tried to claim credit for it when we came to London a couple of years back," he explained. "I said it first that there would be a Mania in the UK before Cena started running around trying to take credit."
"Drew McIntyre said it first because I know it’s going to happen eventually..."