Drew McIntyre does not want to take a trip down memory lane for this part of his WWE journey.
With WWE cameras capturing footage from dark matches and post-show angles, hours of footage is stored away in the archives and has only been seen by a select few. However, thanks to the regular uploads of hidden gem matches to the company’s YouTube channel, fans have an opportunity to see their favourite stars compete in matches that took place before they broke into the industry.
Back in 2007, McIntyre teamed with Dave Taylor to take on The Nasty Boys for a dark match before the SmackDown taping began. Introduced by McIntyre as a “curtain sell-out”, the roster eagerly watched on backstage as they knew it wasn’t going to end well.
Although McIntyre introduced the match on the WWE Vault YouTube Channel, he has not watched the match and refuses to do so. Speaking with Haley Miller of ComicBook, McIntyre admitted he can’t face the trauma of watching that match back:
“I will never ever watch that match back. You’ll have to tie me to the chair Clockwork Orange style and pry my eyes open to watch that match. I did the intro for it, obviously, you see before they play the match. But I — that’s some serious trauma. I don’t need to relive what happened there. The number one curtain sell out of all WWE history. The curtain sell out is just when everybody comes to watch the match that’s happening in the ring.”
Continuing, McIntyre once again described the backstage atmosphere and how everyone knew what was going to happen next:
“Usually at TV people are busy, they have to take care of their segment for later. They’re chatting, not watching what’s going on in the ring, especially the non televised matches. Everybody in the backstage area, I mean, everybody was waiting at monitors peeking through curtains and I was like, ‘is this normal?’ They were like, ‘no, they just know this is about to be a train wreck,’ and it was a freakin’ train wreck.”
Drew McIntyre Addresses CM Punk Bracelet Theft
Ever since WrestleMania 40, McIntyre has been hell-bent on ending CM Punk once and for all after Punk helped to bring his World Heavyweight Championship reign to an end in Philadelphia and has been responsible for multiple losses since. McIntyre was able to exact some revenge at SummerSlam as he defeated Punk in Cleveland while once again stealing Punk’s friendship bracelet. Speaking in a separate interview, Drew McIntyre explained the importance of keeping possession of the item.