WWE Raw star Drew McIntyre was recently a guest on Lilian Garcia’s Chasing Glory podcast where he discussed his love for wrestling, and more. Here are some transcribed highlights from the interview courtesy PWMania.
Drew McIntyre talked about his love for wrestling, who made his debut in the industry in 2001. McIntyre says he wasn’t even able to tell the difference between WWF and other British promotions.
“As far back as I can remember. Maybe at one point I wanted to play for my favorite soccer club, the Glasgow Rangers, but aside that it was just wrestling. How am I going to do this? I need to figure it out. We had a couple of British wrestling VHS’s and I didn’t know the difference between WWF and the British wrestling so I just assumed everybody was a part of WWF. I didn’t realize there was all these different companies and there was a British wrestling scene that had finished at the point pretty much. It was the old tapes that my Dad had and he was explaining to me who they all were, getting all the education on the British wrestling, but I was just obsessed, anything I could get my hands on, if my friends had any tapes, I’d be around at their house watching them over and over. I just had to figure out a way to do it.”
McIntyre has held the WWE Intercontinental Championship and the WWE Tag Team Championship with Cody Rhodes during the first tenure at WWE.
McIntyre wrestled as Drew Galloway in TNA/Impact Wrestling and in the indies. He re-signed with the WWE again in April last year and went on to win the NXT Championship.
