Drew McIntyre returned at the last of last night's Raw, attacking Sami Zayn.
PWInsider.com had reported last week that conversations about how he would return had been underway in WWE creative.
McIntyre's return was not expected to be this soon and the belief backstage last night was that the injury to Bronson Reed at Survivor Series led to McIntyre returning a few weeks earlier than initially planned.
McIntyre had been advertised for WWE's holiday week live events including Madison Square Garden, so he would have been back in the ring by then and perhaps returning on the Raw Netflix debut, but he's now back in the storylines.
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