Drew McIntyre Confirms He Stormed Out Of WWE Royal Rumble, Explains Why He Left Abruptly

Drew McIntyre has spoken out on what took place at the Royal Rumble.

McIntyre was part of the Men’s Royal Rumble match in the main event of the show. Entering at number 17, the 3-time World Champion lasted approximately 27 minutes before being eliminated by Damian Priest.

Shortly after the show, news broke that the WWE star stormed out of Lucas Oil Stadium, with the report adding that McIntyre was “screaming and cursing” and added that “someone had to get their moves in.”

Follow-up reports noted that the individual who caused the issue was LA Knight and that an “errant movement” interrupted the elimination spot. Reports also noted that other eliminations should have taken place earlier, which added to the in-ring confusion.

“I Let Everybody Know What I Thought And Left”: Drew McIntyre

Appearing on the Getting Over podcast, McIntyre noted that while not all the details reported were accurate, he did leave early and was furious:

“I mean, not all the details are accurate but yeah, I was fuming (at WWE Royal Rumble) and I let everybody know what I thought and then I left. Because I’ve learned as an adult, nothing good happens when you’re highly emotional so just calm down, get the facts, then deal with it, because I don’t want to punch somebody in the head and be unprofessional and then find out facts later I didn’t know about. It was the grown-up thing to do.”

Continuing, McIntyre elaborated further on getting frustrated on the night:

“For me, it’s just if I ever feel somebody did something disrespectful, went into business for themselves and the likes. That’s when I get frustrated and sometimes it’s not what it appears on the surface and you have to get all the facts together and you have to just calm down. It’s just fun that every time I have a moment — it doesn’t happen often (he laughed).

(Damian) Priest finally jokes about it on the promo because that’s all he’s got aside, ‘Drew complains all the time. He’s always gonna leave the building’ and I was like, ‘Come on, mate, it’s a couple times in a few years.’ Consider I’m Scottish, I got an anger problem, that’s not too bad. Also, if I stayed, I might have punched some people out and been like, oh, actually, it wasn’t their fault. Wakey, wakey.”

Also in the interview, Drew McIntyre spoke out on his WrestleMania booking.

In a previous interview, Drew McIntyre gave his thoughts on some of the newer wrestlers and why he thought they were “freaking p*ssies.”

H/t to POST Wrestling.