Drew McIntyre is FED UP 😮 Scottish Warrior calls out WWE, Michael Cole & more | The Pat McAfee Show

The Pat McAfee Show is joined by the Scottish Warrior, Drew McIntyre, to air his frustrations with the WWE, Michael Cole, CM Punk and more.

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the Scottish Warrior the former former World Heavyweight Champion for 5 minutes and 18 seconds oh he got screwed Bamboozled ladies and gentlemen Drew [Music] McIntyre I’m on your side Drew we got two minutes left on ESPN but the world needs to see you before we go on to YouTube and ESPN plus this man is supposed to be a champion this man is supposed to be the face of WWE and it feels like everybody’s working against you drew do you agree with that feels like everyone’s working against me these days be it CM Punk be it fellow members of the roster or be it your colleague on cometary Michael Cole talking trash about me every single week get them Drew you know the rock loves you the rock is a part of resigning you keeping you in the WWE being a WWE Superstar being one of the faces of the WWE and you got Michael Cole just being a little bastard every single week how do we going to handle this how do we move forward Drew what are the next steps for the Scottish Warrior well I suggest you have a talk with Michael Cole you know he’s got you know the most powerful voice in WWE he controls the narrative in WWE whether people realize it or not he puts the thoughts in their head that they’re constantly thinking and at one time he was telling them Drew McIntyre’s a centerpiece of WWE he got us through the pandemic I did and these days he calls me delusional he calls me a hypocrite as appropriate he comes from the background he does in the mainstream media he controls The Narrative of WWE and right now I don’t like the messages putting out about Drew McIntyre suggest you getting his year or I’m going to get in his face and I’m going to start smacking him around using that power irresponsibly he’s a senior citizen Drew he’s a senior citizen let’s never forget that he’s been in WWE 27 years let’s not break his jaw well if he keeps on the path he’s on I’m going to break him verbally then I’m going to break him phys physically that’s what it’s coming to at this point I’m getting pretty peeled with Michael Cole every single week I listen to him it’s like we don’t watch the shows about we don’t hear what he’s saying I hear him every single week delivering that message controlling the narrative like he does saying that I’m delusional whatever I’ve not lied once Pat you play every single clip for the past three four years of Drew McIntyre I’m not saying in the past I wasn’t a bad guy ain’t a bad guy these days I’m a truthful guy and the world doesn’t like the truth apparently Anymore Michael Cole apparently doesn’t like the truth anymore it’s just a reflection of society you tell the truth suddenly you’re a bad guy you find one lie I’ve said I’ll call you a liar cuz I ain’t lied once I keep standing on business that’s right a that what he’s doing he’s staying on business out there Drew McIntyre and before the boys have question I want to let you know when I told the boys this morning Drew McIntyre is going to be on today big pop out everybody yeah big pop out everybody the boys love Drew McIntyre now Michael Cole might be you know speaking out of both sides of his mouth and that’s what Michael Cole does he’s the voice of WWE I’m giving him the heads up I give the heads up privately I’m giving you the heads up on your show to get in his ear he’s going to see this and yeah changes his ways I don’t you think I don’t watch the show back of course I’m a professional I watch the product every week I hear him spread in those lies and it’s getting to the point I’m calling them out live on your show right now when we get back to my freaking show the moodam in recently thanks to CM Punk Damen priest and all these other idiots on the Rost I think they’re the ones that should be leading the charge for WWE I’m going to start getting violent and nobody’s more violent than a 6’5 280b Scottish man with a freaking sword that the rocks in hell wow it’s great to see the sword back in your hand I would like to say you know and the bigger the sword you know the more pleasure to be had is what they say right that’s what they say I try to keep it PG especially my wife in the other room but yeah that’s what they say okay let’s talk about you and CM Punk uh Michael Cole said you’re obsessed with him do you think that’s accurate do you think he is maybe uh taken advantage of your obsession and made you look dumb like for instance on Monday he was up in his suite you go run into a suite now he’s down in a ring they’re say not me but others are saying this guy looks like a big dumb Scottish idiot up in the suite while CM Punk’s down the ring what are your thoughts on CM Punk and do you think you’re Maybe a little over obsessed with him are you are you keeping your eye on the Target or are you missing some things because of your obsession maybe if Michael Cole thought for a second to be a journalist and asked me some of the hard-hitting questions he would understand more why I feel the way I feel about CM Punk I’ve referenced it repeatedly I won’t go into details right now but we were on the roster together when I was just a kid from the age 22 to age 26 he was somebody that could have been a leader for me and he actively hurt my career when I was younger and people were like oh just forget the pass through I hear about it all the time when it comes to the bloodline it comes to some of the other things going in WWE just forget the past forgive and forget I can’t forget if you literally ruined my life and right now know you look like a big dumb idiot chasing CM Punk no I was saying mate get in my face you screwed me at the world title WrestleMania just face me like a man you’re playing games where I’m chasing you around no like who’s the coward here who’s the again PG p word here he is I look like an idiot chasing him around okay fair enough but he’s not willing to fight me like a man I’m going going to end up showing up at his doorstep you make embarrass me at WrestleMania it was 5 minutes and 46 seconds by the way I had the title for before he cheated me out of it and I’m getting ready to show up to Chicago like I don’t know where he lives and starts smacking him around we’re grown ass man we’re going to handle it grown ass ways that’s my fist and your face well I think he’s uh still recovering from uh his injury obviously oh dams dams dams I talked about this on Monday as well you know what happened at Mania when he attacked me from behind sweep my legs out he fractured my elbow this elbow right here broken bones in it you know what I did the next day I wrestled in a four-way match that I would have won if it wasn’t for CM Punk I’ve been taping up every week I did a European tour I wrestled J Uso every single night he’s sitting on his couch collecting his big paycheck thinking how he can kiss corporate ARS to keep cashing those checks when I’m putting in the work who’s the bad guy who’s the delusional one who’s the hypocrite love it you’re speaking a lot of sense here a li I’m a liar no if somebody called you a liar to tell Li yeah they would be liar they would be lying if they were to say you were a liar now I like CM Punk but Ty has a question for you yeah Drew this could you know him as he is today an ass kisser he kisses your ass constantly well I don’t mind that you’re a nice guy until you’ve got all that power he’s a corporate kiss artist and M you don’t dress in the suit but you got power Hey listen hey uh McIntyre I don’t care if somebody’s fake nice to me or real nice to me as long as they’re nice to me I’m I’m appreciative of it you know what I mean I’d ra I’d rather they be fake nice and CM Punk is certainly been that since he’s gotten back now to you it’s a whole different story now with that being said Tai is a question yeah Drew I couldn’t agree a more uh with your points there he is a corporate kissar there’s no two ways about it and this could be a little little extreme I I don’t know if I would consider that but have you considered maybe just one of these nights just saying you know what it I’m going to take Angela I’m going to pick her up here and I’m just going to behead CM Punk in the middle of the Ring I’m just going to slice his head off and then I can take his big dumb you know corpse of a head and just carry that with me everywhere don’t need the w we title okay you just take around CM Punk’s head to everyone in the locker room you say hey who’s the big bad wolf now okay don’t forget what this guy can do and if you don’t want to go that far that’s fine then maybe you just deliver not one not two but three claimer kicks to that big dumb stupid mouth of his just something to consider that’s some good ideas I mean I love the sword idea I going to jail um I just think that would be the easy way out I he just doesn’t deserve the EAS way out it deserves to be tortured deserves to be beaten over and over even the Claymore I have to jump up and fall down myself it hurts me I just want to punch a stupid face to my actually hurts my knuckles I want to forearm his stupid face once those bone heels until he’s unconscious not quite finished yet so he can come back around and I can do it again and I want to make his life complete hell he says he wants to make my life hell he made my hell life when I was a kid when I was young I was naive I was new to America I could barely figure out how to pay bills never mind operating WWE and he could have helped me he could have helped navigate those Waters instead of actively hurting me but I figured it out I’m one of the top dogs in WWE I will be the top dog like I was once again and as I said I’m a big giant angry monster now and I’m going to smack him around and he breaks so easy I don’t want to hit him too hard the guy’s made a freaking glass every time I break him he goes away he rehabs I know keep went back like a Terminator so I need to figure out how to take him out for good jeez I wonder if CM Punk’s hearing all this I I think so he’s going to hear it why he watches me constantly he doesn’t reply on the internet because he knows he can’t keep up he’s like oh drew his Twitter fingers oh that’s all you’re good at whatever no do I the average troll I’ll tear you apart on social media then I’ll step from behind the keyboard I’ll tear you apart physically and if I wasn’t married I’d take your girl too that’s the kind of troll I am hell yeah dude geez you’re my mom’s favorite Superstar as I’ve told you before uh you know be I think don’t steal her watch your mouth please okay Drew we don’t need this right now but you are he you come out oh yeah oh yeah uh yeah it’s a movie yes just absolutely shredded yeah somehow way too athletic too like the kip up at 200 what what how much you weigh right now about 282 how tall 6’5 and a half it’s a half inch it makes all the difference amen that’s what I’ve been saying this whole time and then uh you what’s your body fat do you get that tested no I don’t test that I don’t have a diet as such anything and I just lift heavy ways I eat lots of food like a man I don’t measure that I don’t watch what I eat I just put the work in the gym the work in the ring that’s all I do you’re a weapon dude go ahead AJ Drew why do you think this like why why are you getting screwed over why is all of this happening is are people intimidated by you your your good looks and your your strength and what you may or may not do to them like why do you think this is happening and how good is it going to feel once you’re you’re back on top and you are the king of the jungle feel great when I’m back on top I don’t know why you know things have been going the way they’ve going I feel like a lot of people are against me on a rust or I guess it’s just WWE’s on fire right now we’ve never been in history uh we’re making Billion Dollar Deals left and right we’ve got the billion dollar man Nick can know closing all these deals for us left and right at the top there’s a lot of things going on a lot of opportunities if you get to the top and I’ve been to the top and whatever people are trying to do to stop me getting to the top it’s not going to happen cuz I know this industry too well I’ll figure it out backstage if you try to politic your way ahead of me I’ll just beat you down and I’ll get myself ahead of you cuz I know how this game works and I’m too big and wise and that’s why I’ve staying with WWE for foreseeable future I wasn’t going to go anywhere if anybody out there was unsure reading those internet rumors or whatever we’re just in a place where you know I had to get things right for my family I got with Nick KH I got with Triple H they were so understanding and we got things right for the future Drew McIntyre was never going to go away from WWE and it’s awesome that the rock made that announcement it’s the first time he’s done that for anybody in a roster that Drew McIntyre’s resigned with WWE and I want to talk about something positive and inspirational headline I was fired in 2014 by WWE and I deserved to get fired I needed to get fired to truly find myself and 10 years later the Rocks announcing that Drew McIntyre resigned with WWE for anyone out there who’s made it and then you get knocked down in your butt you got to keep fighting you got to keep pushing forward you got to leave no stone unturn put the work in be accountable to the person in the mirror you can do freaking anything I’ve done it time and time again and this is the most recent incident of it hell yeah go hell yeah Drew obviously we as WWE fans are pumped to hear that you never going anywhere else and you’re sticking around for a while the man you’ve mentioned a few times there Nick KH uh there was some internet rumors about him too selling stock and shares and everything like that I uh after talking to Source s can report some breaking news that’s not true has never sold a single share of any stock since getting to the WWE hasn’t even put them up for sale which is an entire process to do that so that was uh a bunch of as well so when you’re talking about the WWE climbing I love that you’re going to be around and I love that Nick KH is going to be around things are seemingly swimmingly beautiful for the WWE but this man needs to stop getting screwed and it was evident the other night con man yeah Drew was pretty ridiculous we talked about it uh when the draft started in round one pick On’s getting about to be you know announced are you preparing to walk out there because like us you just assumed you were the number one overall pick or what was that kind of reaction and feeling when you realized that you were SL down the board I don’t know the right word for it I was frustrated but it’s not even frustration I’m not angry oh this is like whatever I’m going to start cracking heads it’s just this is stupid this is actually stupid let’s just look at this situation I think I said to the APA Ryan Simmons and John Bradfield that were out there they’re known for being heavy Drinkers and I said have you been getting all these guys in the war rooms drunk the general manager drunk since Friday to Monday and that’s why they’re making stupid decisions like Drew maget in the third round it doesn’t make me angry it just perplex me and I had to just point out anybody in this Arena can walk up to me look me in the eye and say this is sensible this makes sense I’ll call you a freaking liar as I keep saying over and over and over I’m just constantly perplexed constantly shocked and constantly just pointing out hypocrisy and stupidity in WWE are you using most it relates to me yeah amen we once we found out that you were not we uh we weren’t able to catch Friday’s show live because I was in West Virginia and I was icking for fans for the spring game so I had to go to Every bar in town that I went to it was a great time Drew hey proper proper night in Mor I mean we had a proper night never ever a drink with you CM Punk that guy’s a good time Pepsi night what do you mean swing he’s straight ah JJ he doesn’t drink or anything yeah which is you know I said that’s on TV ones yeah the most ironic thing about him is you know the straight edge thing yet he spends all his time in rehab okay it’s G to get hurt it’s GNA get hurt okay there you go the pain Dr yeah we didn’t uh we didn’t see we didn’t get to see the draft live so on Monday before raw we pulled up all the draft selections from Friday night and the first reaction from everybody was wait Ro nobody’s drafted Drew McIntyre what do we even how how do we even get through a full first night without that taking place it’s all going to come back there are these chips on your or are these distractions for you I mean everything just um I would say a chip in my shoulder everything is like all right if that’s how you feel I’ll keep proving you wrong Pro I proved everyone wrong for the my whole freaking life since I was a kid in Scotland and nobody had ever been signed from Scotland directly to WWE and I said I’m going to do it and everyone around me the 5 million Scottish people put things perspective the 65 million people in England and I said what makes it you so special how you going to be the first person to sign from Scotland directly to WWE and I said I’m going to make make it happen one way or another and I did and I had everything I let it slip away as I mentioned I got fired and I said to my wife I remember I’m going to be back and I’m not just going to be making up the numbers I refuse to make up the numbers I’m going to be the top of the heat one of the top superstars in WWE and eventually the top superstar in WWE and I know things are going to come my way obstacles are going to get in my way and I’m going to keep smashing right through I’m going to keep putting in the work I’m going to keep making sure I look like a WWE Superstar I wish some more of a superstar actually put in the works it seems like these days I’m constantly being asked why don’t have the roster look like like wrestlers when it’s you know new fans are coming in oring for the first time I mean I don’t want to cop all over people I’m just saying unless you’ve got something that’s makes you so unique to stand out and you have a certain you know it Factor about you and people have that a lot of our roster that aren’t Larger than Life they pass the airport test somebody that walks through an airport your eyes are drawn to them you can’t figure out why you don’t have to be my size to have that but for goodness sake at least look like an athlete yeah you’re back in the day you know it used to be like superheroes like hey these are super humans that already representing his Superstars and when you walk by especially if you’re wearing a kilt you know what the yeah mhm that guy in a kilt I usually am what’s under your kilt nothing except on TV yeah the PG thing kills me as a Scots me to wear something under there but yeah aside the the show getting cancelled uh I might get canceled when I get home okay got it got it okay I understand yeah let’s keep the dong in you know it’s not good dongs out with our killed uh ton Diggs has a question for you yeah Drew you kind of just took the words out of my mouth out there when you talk about looking like an absolute Superstar um and then after the draft I was looking at the Monday Night Raw roster and I said man there’s one guy who’s going to carry this show every Monday night and that’s Drew McIntyre okay is there a pressure that comes with carrying Monday Night Raw every week I I know you carried us through uh covid but is it is it any different now not for myself but there is a pressure that comes with being the champion being the man and having those responsibilities and my journey has prepared me for literally anything I said that all through my career especially when I came back to WWE and you know Triple H brought me back in 2017 I mentioned how instrumental he was you know keeping me in the company and I said right up until I won the title the first time there’s nothing you can throw at me I’m so prepared I’ve been through so many experiences in this industry to carry this company and the world shut down and I was the first one to have that responsibility from what I gather I did a pretty decent job at it and I see some of our like newer Champions the kind of deer and the headlight look when they first get that tight and they realize their responsibility and it’s usually that first champ chip run that’s okay that was a lot I wasn’t ready for that but the next time I’ll be ready for it and some people just crumble under the pressure there’s literally nothing you can throw at me I’m ready for it all I’m ready to put the company on my back I always have been we have such a huge amount of talent now that are capable of that it’s good to have so much competition like a a Cody rhods a Seth Rollins a Roman Reigns like these Superstars are just unbelievable they know this industry inside out and US competing with each other for that top spot is just good for the industry how about Braun strowman’s back you scared about all the meat that showed up the other night so much me that is a freaking monster that a superstar we’re WWE we’re a variety show we need guys that I’m a big Mur trucker but then we need those uh use a freak Show word but those attractions like an almost or a Braun like those guys are like as even the same species as me and people say that about me I look at him and think that yeah well you are spe uh yeah every time you come out and do your I literally have to say the same thing every time like Not all men are created equal okay we need to we need to just understand that whenever we look at and then the Flames come out from the oh my god oh what a moment there do you do you still get nerves you still feel nerves whenever you go out there you still get the butterflies or what does it feel butterflies yeah butterflies you get excited you get excited to go out yeah I mean this is all I’ve wanted to do um and I feel very fortunate to be able to do it as I said getting fired was amazing for perspective and people ask me you know how do you keep the head no matter what the situation is I always recommend get fired and I brought my neck one time like things like that have given me such perspective that I’m appreciative of any opportunity that I get in the day I don’t have the butterflies no matter how big um you know the the show is how many people are there if it’s televised or not televised it’s the day I sto dbot got one last question for you here Drew we appreciate you yeah Drew as a kid uh was there one match that stood out we’ve been talking obviously about the superstars is there one match I know we’re similar in age that stood out that you said okay this is what I want to do for the rest of my life and I knew the second I saw wrestling you know I was going to going to do this there’s a story I tell in my book My Chosen Destiny available now where I guess I had a family meeting and I told the family you know I’m going to be in WWE one day and of course my parents were like sure cuz every kid says I’m going to be an astronaut I’m going to be a football player in America like a baseball player or whatever I’m going to ride a T-Rex professionally and you grow out of it you I never ever grew out of it that’s what I was going to do but thinking of all the matches that struck me as a kid when I want to be like I want to be this good there was WrestleMania 13 Brett the Hitman Hart versus Stone Cold Steve Austin even at my age at the time which my goodness I was probably not even a teenager yet they told the perfect story everything was good about our industry the physicality in the ring but more importantly and the biggest thing in our industry is an emotional connection with our audience that’s something you can’t really teach it’s something you either have or you don’t have or can be developed through time like Pat had it instantly you have that it Factor you have that connection with our audience almost instantly and that match had everything and it struck me as a kid how good it was and the older and more educated I got in our industry the more I appreciated it more feels like our age grew up in an era where you know it was hard not to be just attracted to WWE and to wrestling as a whole and you know some of us get to live out a dream every single me I still feel that way every time I show up in Arena I’m like I can’t believe I get to be here now for you you can feel that the fans feel that they can’t necessarily articulate all the time but they can feel when something’s real when it’s not real which is ironic consider how some people feel about our industry but they can feel when you’re touching them like this person is feeling this they’re in the moment they’re present this is real to them we feel that the true to us hell yeah uh you know there was a moment that was very real just like two weeks ago and if you ever need my mic just go ahead you know just go ahead and just go ahead and take it you know what I mean there’s nothing I could do 65 and a half 280 just starts yelling I’m like here use the microphone you start you need to do that more often it was my indoor voice yeah okay yeah yeah 65 half 280 indoor voice that’s great as we wrap up this wonderful conversation with the Scottish Warrior the last man to be the World Heavyweight Champion has not gotten his rematch and I believe there is a rematch clause you know in Championship I don’t know if it has to be more than 5 minutes and 46 seconds though I that’s not a shot that’s real I don’t know what the rules no no the rules change when it comes to Drew McIntyre apparently but you know it’s a story of my life I just go with the flow I keep pushing forward now we know I know as I said thanks to the Rocks announcement thanks to thanks to Nick can and you know I’ll be with WD for the future for years and years I’m excited where we’re going and I’m excited to start smacking some heads around now that I’m know I’m going to be here and again Michael you’re listening I know you’re listening please correct what you’re telling the world we know what’s happening with Punk and I’m going to get my hands on that title so priest enjoy it I said he’s a transitional Champion I meant it this is his moment please enjoy that moment priest you’ve worked a long time you’ve got a very inspiring story this is your time get the time in cuz when I’m taking the title it’s not going anywhere for a long time that’s Al comp on Damen priest who cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase on Drew McIntyre after he was taken out by CM Punk at WrestleMania right on our commentary two feet away from me I you know it was history obviously happening Michael Cole has responded he’s currently on a plane to Leon France you know he’s got to do some press events he uh he said to me you’re a massive prick way to defend your partner senior citizen you on a plane to France and had to watch that clip my phone blowing up why don’t you stick up for me well I want to let you know Drew I don’t like what you said about Michael Cole but I will say yeah but you notice he didn’t mention me once no yeah there’s a reason uh Drew we appreciate the hell out of you brother it’s an honor to watch you work on Mondays can’t wait to see you next week hell yeah I appreciate you having me Lads and Pat I’ll see you next Monday hopefully people learn something especially in WWE from this interview maybe they’ll learn Michael Cole’s a dog there we go can I say Michael Cole stop being a little I work hard for this place hell yeah don’t say that about Cole Drew but if you do it’s all right by me ladies and gentlemen Drew MC everybody all right let’s get to a break that’s awesome [Music]