RAW Superstar Drew McIntyre recently spoke to Vicente Beltrán of ViBe & Wrestling, and was asked about his sudden transition from heel to babyface on the Monday night show. It came pretty much out of nowhere ahead of this year's Royal Rumble PPV, and by the time he beat Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania, the Scottish Superstar was a firm fan-favourite.
"The point when people started kind of cheering because I wasn’t doing anything particular that would a good guy would generally do. There was no particular moment where you know when a good guy helps or saved the girl from the tracks before the train," McIntyre explains. "It was just like I started showing a little more of myself on the microphone and people started responding because in real life you know I’m not the serious guy that I was for a while I can be serious very serious but there’s a lot more to me… I’m silly sarcastic I like to have a good time but in the end when I get in the ring everybody knows Drew Mcintyre kicks butts and I noticed that people started to cheer."
As for when he noticed fans were starting to get behind him, McIntyre adds: "A few months before the Royal Rumble when I remember one, in particular, it stands out to me is at Madison Square Garden I walked out and I think you can tell a lot about how the garden reacts to a Superstar… I walked out and I was against No Way Jose if I remember and I think I was out first and just the way people reacted I was like…and I got to the ring looking around. Jose made his entrance they were still kind of quiet during his entrance which was unusual because it’s such an entertaining entrance."
"The reaction of the fans was very bizarre but it’s very telling how the Garden reacts it’s like they’re ahead of the curve. Then as the weeks passed then I started showing more of my personality and the other the rest of the fans around America and around the world I could see on social media started responding the same," he continues. "Go down all the way to up to Brock out there in the Rumble and I think that’s when things really switch from bad to good."
It's certainly been an interesting journey for McIntyre, and while it was a shame he didn't get to dethrone The Beast in the usual WrestleMania setting, it's fair to say that 2020 has been a great year for him which is continuing to get better and better. Now, he just needs to take down former Universal Champion Seth Rollins at Sunday's Money in the Bank PPV...