Drew McIntyre Considered Torching Cody Rhodes’ Bus After WWE SmackDown

Drew McIntyre explains his reaction to Cody Rhodes causing a DQ on Friday's WWE SmackDown.

Corey BrennanOctober 18, 2025, 9:57 am

Drew McIntyre explains his reaction to Cody Rhodes causing a DQ on Friday’s WWE SmackDown.

On the October 17th edition of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, Cody Rhodes and Drew met in the main event in a WWE Championship bout. However the match would end in a DQ after Rhodes would use his title as a weapon on McIntyre. Due to champion’s advantage, Cody would retain his title.

While speaking in a new social media promo posted on the morning after WWE SmackDown, Drew McIntyre shared that he considered torching Cody’s bus after the show.

“This is the only way I get therapy, is talking to myself. So just keep it going, I just wanna sound this out. I don’t know what to do at this point. There’s time after time after time this keeps happening. I didn’t take Jacob out. Our world champion, our WWE champion, gives me the match. Then he causes the DQ and takes away another opportunity and I’m sure when I talk about it next week and right now, people are gonna blame me and say I’m whiny. My first reaction was, torch his bus. Make sure his family weren’t on, but torch his bus, and Sheamus got me on the red-eye, got me home. 5 a.m. and I couldn’t go home, so I’m just gonna be at my wife’s. So I came straight here to do legs. Gotta keep going. I gotta keep going. I can’t give up. I won’t give up. I’m a psychopath. I’m a psychopath because I’m in the gym right now. Doing legs after yesterday. No sleep whatsoever and I won’t stop. I don’t care how many people corporate Cody’s got behind him that title’s mine. I’m gonna get it. No matter what it takes. You can’t compete with a psychopath. I’ve forsaken a family. For this industry. For that title. It’s a life I’ve chosen. I hope this all makes sense right now because my brain is jumbled. I just know next week’s going to be hell for Cody and no matter what it takes, I’m going to have my moment. No matter what it takes.”