Drew McIntyre Reveals Rejected WWE Pitch For Him To Beat Roman Reigns At Clash At The Castle 2022

Clash at the Castle 2022 was a monumental night for UK wrestling fans, with WWE hosting their most high profile show on British soil since the legendary SummerSlam 1992 event from Wembley Stadium.

The show was headlined by Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns putting the titles on the line against Drew McIntyre, with many believing WWE would pull the trigger and have Drew win to an enormous ‘home soil’ pop. However, this did not come to pass, with McIntyre losing to Reigns before singing in the ring with Tyson Fury.

McIntyre has spoken of the event during a recent sit-down with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, with ‘Irn Dru’ revealing a rejected pitch for him to defeat Reigns in Cardiff:

“It's weird, because you look at certain moments and in the moment when you're living them you’re like this is ridiculous. We should have found a way out of this. Theory could have cashed in, and I could have pinned him because we had to protect The Bloodline and Roman at that time, that's the top story in the company, the top character. And perhaps at that time, I was like, ‘I just feel this is a bad move’.

“That thing with Tyson Fury. That was stupid. There's no excuse for that. That's the worst moment in my entire career. We did the bit, the song, and then I told him, ‘Hey, you want to sing Sweet Caroline, because British fans [love it]. They're upset that I lost. They don't know American Pie’. He was like, ‘Nah, I'm good’. I'm not gonna fight you, you’re Tyson Fury. I figured we're off the air that's why I started doing the Oasis bit and singing Don’t Look Back in Anger. Just got the crowd going. And I was like, ‘Oh, this sucks, but we're off the air’. Then I found out we're still on the air. It was a whole thing. But anyway, I digress, Oasis are back together. Gotta get some tickets for that.

“Yeah, that night, I was very upset. How does McIntyre rebound from this, which took a minute to do, but because I didn't win that night, the way things worked out, the story we've been telling that was such an integral part of the story, especially initially with the character shift with Jey Uso moving from SmackDown to Raw and bringing up the trauma and PTSD McIntyre had from The Bloodline of what they had done to cost not just me, but my family that moment, who were all in the front row. My dad, my wife, my brother, my sister-in-law, my cousin, like everybody is there who's been missing me for all these years and I've not seen my nephews grow up. That was going to be our moment. This trauma is brought up by this Bloodline member just showing up and everybody cheering him and saying a silly little word Yeet and doing his little silly dance. And now, wait a minute, this guy's a bad guy, and then suddenly people start turning on me. So if it wasn't for what happened at Clash, if it wasn't for the journey and the way we tell stories now, we can tell stories now, we wouldn't be where we are right now,” said McIntyre.