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Drew McIntyre will make his in-ring return at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event when he squares off in opposition to Randy Orton greater than a month after he misplaced to Damian Priest in a metal cage match.
McIntyre confirmed his face final week when he interrupted a phase between Orton and Cody Rhodes.
Unafraid to inform it like it’s, McIntyre questioned “what occurred” to Orton because the so-called “Legend Killer” seemingly misplaced the psychological struggle in opposition to Rhodes nicely earlier than he misplaced the match in opposition to him that may have given him a shot on the Undisputed WWE championship in opposition to John Cena at SummerSlam.
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Drew McIntyre throughout Wrestlemania 39 Night time 2 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., April 2, 2023. (Joe Camporeale/USA Immediately Sports activities)
Orton obtained the final phrase that night time, but it surely arrange a match between the 2 superstars at Saturday Night’s Main event.
“I suppose we’ll discover out,” McIntyre informed Fox Information Digital when requested whether or not Orton could have misplaced his killer intuition. “He lastly dropped me with the RKO after I ran my mouth for eight straight minutes. However I’m sincere. I’m all the time sincere. I’m not the unhealthy man. , ‘heel,’ like everybody likes to say. I simply inform the reality and that makes you the unhealthy man as we speak’s day in age.
“I stated Cody’s been buttering him up for months, speaking about how nice mates they’re, how a lot he respects him, getting Randy’s guard down main into the (Night time of Champions) match and the break up second Randy tweaked his again, his surgically repaired again, the again he was by no means gonna return from at one level.
“What did Cody do? ‘My good buddy, oh my goodness, are you OK? I need to do that the fitting means.’ No! He went proper after his again. He focused his again, probably shortened his profession much more. Then, when Randy had the chance to get him again, he hesitated, however he went for it anyway, then he missed and he misplaced the match. That’s on Randy.”
McIntyre stated “prodding” Orton was a part of the plan to get a match with him. He in contrast himself with John Cena and stated he wasn’t going to promote his soul and take “low cost” path to get a title shot.
Randy Orton makes his entrance throughout WWE Elimination Chamber at Rogers Centre March 1, 2025, in Toronto. (Georgiana Dallas/WWE through Getty Photos)
When it got here to who he desires to face for the title, he pointed straight at Rhodes and made clear he didn’t need to go up in opposition to this model of Cena.
“Cena and Cody at SummerSlam. … I’ve stated this already. I don’t need this John Cena. This John Cena is a bit of b—-,” he stated. “We by no means had a match one-on-one ever. It could be an enormous match. I don’t need this Cena.
“I need to ship him packing the way in which he was — hustle, loyalty and respect, doing issues the fitting means. These low cost finishes, everybody leaves the world like, ‘That freaking sucked, that was a waste of cash.’ I need the precise John Cena. However since he’s not that man, I need Cody to win that title.”
McIntyre in contrast his profession to Rhodes’ and believes their potential matchup could be one everybody wished to see.
“And as I informed Cody, parallel careers for 20 years. We each obtained handed a crappy hand again within the day character smart. We each needed to depart the corporate to seek out ourselves, come again, get ourselves to the place we are actually. I was the place he was in his mindset the place he’s now. I’ve developed previous that. I see what’s necessary now,” he informed Fox Information Digital.
Cody Rhodes is interviewed by Byron Saxton after his win throughout Night time Of Champions at Kingdom Enviornment June 28, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Georgiana Dallas/WWE through Getty Photos)
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“Parallel careers, totally different locations. The story is gonna be unbelievable, the match is gonna be unbelievable. However I need to be the one to tear the title out of Cody’s fingers and see the look in his face and know, ‘Oh crap this isn’t the identical Drew, and I used to be fearful of the previous Drew. That is an developed Drew I can’t compete with as a result of he’s higher than me.’”
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