4. Drew McIntyre Is Excited For A Potential Match With Randy Orton At SummerSlam, Reveals How He Would Tell This Story
There have been rumors going around that WWE Champion Drew McIntyre will defend his Title against Randy Orton at SummerSlam next month.
While speaking to talkSPORT, McIntyre reacted to the reports and told how he’d tell the story in a feud between him and Orton.
Below is what the WWE Champion said:
“That’s exciting to me. Randy Orton is on fire right now.
Like, even when he’s not even trying – he’s admitted himself sometimes he’s not putting in 100% – but he’s still better than 90 percent of everybody in the world when he’s barely trying. But when he’s on, there is nobody that can touch Randy Orton.
For me, I need somebody who is really going to make me work up to their level. I’m in a place where I’m building as a new champion and we don’t have an audience to show the new fans they should be reacting to me in a certain way right now. It is very much every week, I’m starting from square one in my mind to get over every single week.
Because there might be a new viewer watching and I’ve got to tell them who I am, explain Drew McIntyre and why they should be behind me and I think with Randy Orton, he’s so well established and instantly recognisable, he’s so good at his role that it would make me have to work up to his level or I would drown.
I’m excited at the prospect of me and Randy if it comes together. I hope it happens, the internet seems to know about it before I do [laughs].
The story writes itself; we were kids who were given such great opportunities. Randy has all the natural talent in the world, but he was very protected. Every time he messed up, he made sure someone was cleaning up his mess behind him.
Whenever I messed up, it hurt me and eventually I was out of that position. And again, he was on a different level talent wise, but he was very much protected until he got to the top and then he figured it out to become the man he is today.
With Drew McIntyre. I kind of got kicked to the curb. I was in 3MB, got fired and as long as wrestling was constantly trying to hand me everything, I was rejecting it.
It got to the point where wrestling gave up, I was fired and it was up to me to really want this. I started working on myself. Instead of wrestling choosing me, I chose wrestling and I started working my a$$ off and took the long way round to reach the top.
So it’s very interesting in terms of the story Randy and I could tell.”
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