Drew McIntyre Claims WWE Tells Released Talent to Follow in His Footsteps

Drew McIntyre is one of the most established WWE Superstars of the past decade, as he won the WWE Championship twice. His return to WWE back in 2017 is a true inspiration for many and now McIntyre claimed that WWE even tells talent to learn from him after releases.

Drew McIntyre was released by WWE back in 2014 and he would spend the next three years of his life developing himself in various independent promotions and Impact Wrestling, before returning in 2017.

Last month, WWE’s latest round of releases took place, which saw the likes of Dolph Ziggler, Mustafa Ali, Dana Brooke, Shelton Benjamin, and more getting released. While speaking to Good Karma Wrestling, McIntyre talked bout the latest series of cuts and claimed that WWE tells talent who got released to follow in his footsteps and build themselves to be better.

“I hope they are inspired. From what I gather, the company literally tells people, ‘Do a Drew.’ My brother once said ‘you’ve become a verb.’ You have to go out there and reinvent yourself, grow your brand and make yourself more valuable. I believe that’s the advice that the company literally gives people and some of the Superstars that are released and come to me to ask for advice. Hopefully they’ll look at the template of what I did.

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When I left, the model was usually take that WWE character take it around the world, get paid X amount, the 2nd time around you’ll make a little less and finally you’ll find a wage that you’ll stop on and that will be your wage and hopefully one day you will make it back to WWE. My business mindset was, ‘that’s terrible business sense.’ I’m absolutely not doing that, I’m going to reinvent myself, I’m going to show what I can truly do. Social media is becoming really big which it was becoming huge in 2014. I can take everyone around the world with me on my journey and I’m really going to reinvent what it means to be an independent wrestler.

Thankfully a lot of people believed in me, gave me a lot of opportunities, a lot of platforms to show what I can do and I really succeed and everybody can follow that. The next guy was Cody Rhodes and he had his own version which led to the creation of another company. You watch Matt Cardona now, while Cody and I eventually kind of went to the TV level, Matt’s been able to keep it at an independent level but really become super popular, super successful. And he has carny in him that I never truly had.”

Drew McIntyre is set to challenge Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WWE Crown Jewel next month. Only time will tell whether The Scottish Warrior will be able to defeat Rollins for the title.

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