Drew McIntyre will face Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship on Night 2 of WrestleMania 40.
McIntyre won the Men’s Elimination Chamber match to earn this title shot. He also suffered a ruptured eardrum during this match.
During an interview on Gorilla Position, McIntyre revealed that he’s still dealing with hearing issues:
“Physically, I still feel terrible from the (Elimination) Chamber. I took most of the big falls it seemed even though — I guess Randy’s maybe bigger than me these days and (Bobby) Lashley’s jacked but basically the biggest guys somehow ended up taking all the worst falls.
Logan (Paul) diving on my face and getting my eardrum perforated so, I’m kind of staring at your lips watching what you’re saying because I found out about a year-and-a-half ago from an ear specialist because I have bad hearing in general that I taught myself to lip read which I had no idea.
We did a little test where he was talking, had me put my fingers in my ears where I could still hear him, was telling him what he was saying and he slowly slipped up a piece of paper in front of his face and I was like, ‘I can’t hear what you’re saying. You’ve lowered your voice.’
My wife was like, ‘He hasn’t. He’s the exact same volume’. He went, ‘Yeah, you’re a smart guy. You just taught yourself to lip read because your hearing is so bad’.
Oh, fantastic. Then it got perforated. So, I won’t say who it was because I don’t want them to feel bad, but it’s very annoying because I can’t hear jack.”
Despite being banged up, Drew is still performing on a regular basis. He worked last night’s WWE Live Event, where he lost to Cody Rhodes in a Street Fight.
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