Drew McIntyre says WWE Clash At The Castle 2022 left his character traumatized.
At WWE Clash At The Castle 2022 in Cardiff Wales, Drew McIntyre would face off with Universal Champion Roman Reigns. Just when it looked like McIntyre would win the championship, Solo Sikoa would appear and cost McIntyre the match. This sequence of events has left, as McIntyre puts it, his character suffering with 'PTSD'.
While speaking to High Performance in a new interview, McIntyre spoke on his character, and how he feels like he's traumatized by the events at Clash At The Castle 2022.
"My reaction to these guys (The Bloodline) suddenly get cheered wasn't, we're good now, man, high fives, we're all good, guys, like it might have been five years ago. It's, no, he's beat me up. Why are you people cheering? Because we like them though he took a holiday, and he does a cool hand thing though this that's not legitimate reason. He made my life hell. He screwed me over in the UK in front of 55,000 people out of the world title. That's why I hate him. I was like, 'Drew, just get over it.' I was like, get over it. I'm traumatized. I have PTSD. Those are real things. We implement those into storylines. That's how I started the process of becoming this bad guy. The same thing with CM Punk, these real emotions. The more that I take things to the finish line as a character, and I'm justified, but people don't like getting the truth pointed out constantly, and at the final hurdle, McIntyre will get egg on his face sometimes. If I just win and I win the title and I succeed, I'm kind of just right. That's kind of the end of the story. But the more I get tripped to the final hurdle, the more I can push forward with the story, the more gripes I have, the more truth I can tell in it makes things more interesting from a television perspective."
Elsewhere in the same interview, McIntyre spoke about understanding his losses to CM Punk from a character perspective. You can read more about that here.
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