{"id":687365,"date":"2026-01-10T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:28:13","slug":"drew-mcintyre-arrives-in-scotland-as-undisputed-wwe-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687365\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew McIntyre arrives in Scotland as Undisputed WWE Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Drew-McIntyre-Glasgow-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Drew McIntyre Glasgow\"\/><br \/>\nImage Courtesy: WWE<\/p>\n<p>Drew McIntyre touched down in Glasgow on Saturday, just hours after capturing the Undisputed WWE Championship in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to social media, McIntyre was filmed walking out of Glasgow Airport arrivals with the title belt over his shoulder. The 40-year-old is scheduled to appear at tonight\u2019s WWE Live event at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I said I was bringing this title home. It took a few years but I never lie. I\u2019m officially on Scottish soil as WWE Champion. I would say it\u2019s surreal, but It\u2019s not. It was just a matter of time. Thank God I am home. I went to university 30 minutes from here \u2014 that\u2019s a lie, probably 15 minutes from here. I grew up 40 minutes from here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McIntyre defeated Cody Rhodes in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postwrestling.com\/2026\/01\/09\/wwe-smackdown-1-9-live-results-three-stages-of-hell-wyatts-vs-mfts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday Night SmackDown<\/a> to begin his third reign with the WWE Championship. The title change occurred in a Three Stages of Hell match, with the deciding fall contested inside a Steel Cage.<\/p>\n<p>The win concludes Rhodes\u2019 title reign and marks a significant homecoming for McIntyre, who was born in nearby Ayr and holds a master\u2019s degree in criminology from Glasgow Caledonian University.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTVdNOTDT62\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Courtesy: WWE Drew McIntyre touched down in Glasgow on Saturday, just hours after capturing the Undisputed WWE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,110072,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-687365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-drew-mcintyre","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115872458695018207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}