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PWInsiderElite.com sat down with WWE's Drew McIntyre for a deep dive conversation earlier this week. The 35-minute discussion touched upon a number of topics, including:
His Memoir A Chosen Destiny: My Story and whether he'd like to do a sequel:
"I'd like to wait a long longer, but yeah, for sure. I'm very proud I got to put the story down. It was more for me like an opportunity to, you know, tell my mom's story than anything, just how much she'd overcome with disability, having me and my brother and navigating a very rare, genetic disorder until eventually, cancer is what got her, like I was just very excited. I could just tell her story more than anything else as well as my own story.
When my wife and I were living in our first apartment, I remember watching a Sylvester Stallone documentary of some kind or a piece on him and she was in the kitchen and we were looking at, you know, our first kind of house together. And the one we loved was a little bit out of our primary price range at the time and he told the story about you know, wanting to make Rocky but he had to play the title role and they offered him a bunch of money and ended up selling his dog, you know, the self belief and himself he was going to make it.
I told her, she was on the phone and I was like, do it, we're getting that house. It's going to work out and I'm going to write my book upstairs. That was an area that was perfect for doing some work and writing. So I'm gonna write my book right there. Turns out I wrote the book about five feet in the office. It all kind of worked out. And again, it was that self belief and just knowing you know, if I give everything I've got, it's worked up to this point. It's going to work. Let's get a house. I'm going to write that book and both ended up materializing."
Drew McIntyre's conversation with PWInsider.com's Mike Johnson also includes the following topics:
*His new WWE deal.
*Why he placed family first in negotiations.
*Whether there was any point where he believed he would be exiting the company.
*The sacrifices international stars make moving to the United States.
*His evolution as a top villain in WWE.
*The status and true nature of his current elbow injury.
*Whether the injury was a blessing in disguise for the CM Punk storyline.
*Creative give and take between McIntyre in the Paul Levesque era vs. the previous regime.
*How WWE has changed since falling under the TKO Group Holdings banner.
*Advice to WWE talents who were recently released.
*What he told his wife when he was released.
*The perception he improved after exiting WWE.
*His reaction to being advised to just play off 3MB on the independents in that era.
*Feuding with everyone on Raw.
*What was going through his brain when there was a rain delay at Wrestlemania 38.
*What he and Bobby Lashley initially wanted to do during the delay.
*Whether he considers himself a WWE locker room leader.
*His savage social media presence.
*His memoir and whether he'd like to write a second one.
*What he's most proud of accomplishing with his first book.
*Clash at the Castle: Scotland,
*The support he's received from fans over the course of his career.
*UFOs are real...and the public doesn't seem to care!
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Thanks to Billy Krotchsen for the transcription!
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