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Drew McIntyre addressed the audience at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday following his first defense of the Undisputed WWE Championship.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old defeated Shinsuke Nakamura at the non-televised WWE Live show. It was his first appearance since defeating Cody Rhodes in a Three Stages of Hell match on Friday Night SmackDown to capture the title.<\/p>\n
POST Wrestling listener Gordon<\/a> provided video of McIntyre\u2019s post-match speech, where he reflected on finally bringing the championship to his home country in front of a live crowd. Gordon said that McIntyre got a \u201cmonster\u201d reaction when he made his entrance.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve probably heard me repeatedly make you a promise that I\u2019m going to win the WWE Championship and I\u2019m going to bring it back to Scotland,\u201d McIntyre told the crowd. \u201cWell, the first time I won the WWE Championship, unfortunately the world had to go shut down on us, didn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n McIntyre\u2019s first two WWE Championship reigns occurred in 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely in empty arenas.<\/p>\n I won it twice, and I\u2019m proud of what we did during that period. We gave people an escape during scary times, but I swore I would get the title back. And it has been years and years of disappointment. I\u2019ve been screwed over but still believing in myself because I\u2019ve got this weird condition that makes me mental: I\u2019m Scottish.<\/p>\n Last night, you couldn\u2019t have written it any better. I won the WWE Championship. And the very first place I was able to walk out in front of live fans as the number one wrestler on planet earth was Glasgow. Where I can fulfill my promise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Born in Ayr, McIntyre has frequently cited his local roots. He referenced his time at Glasgow Caledonian University, where he earned a master\u2019s degree in criminology before signing with WWE.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m from 40 minutes down the road,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of you know I went to Glasgow Cali Uni for 4 years. I\u2019ve been in America for 18 years so bear with me my funny Scottish-American accent. I apologize but I\u2019m as Scottish as you get.\u201d<\/p>\n During the address, McIntyre pointed out family members in attendance and paid tribute to his late aunt.<\/p>\n The champion also revisited the memory of Clash at the Castle in Cardiff in 2022. That night saw him lose to Roman Reigns following interference from Solo Sikoa, ending with an impromptu singing segment with Tyson Fury that McIntyre described as the \u201cworst moment\u201d of his career.<\/p>\n Remember Clash of the Castle, the first one when I wrestled Roman? I got screwed over by Solo. That was the worst night in my career and it sent me on this downward spiral that I knew would end with this title.<\/p>\n But there was a moment that night, it was the worst moment of my career when I had to sing a stupid song with Tyson Fury so I want to make it up right now. I don\u2019t have a great voice as you saw, so I\u2019m gonna need some help.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n McIntyre concluded by leading the arena in a rendition of \u2018Flower of Scotland,\u2019 dedicating the moment to the Scottish national football team ahead of the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to show them all and the Scottish football team, that Drew McIntyre started it for Scotland, by winning the WWE Championship,\u201d he said. \u201cSo lads, we need you to get through the group stage at least at the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n Drew McIntyre\u2019s post-match address at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow tonight after a live event defense against Shinsuke Nakamura. Video courtesy of POST Wrestling listener, @yogib82.bsky.social<\/p>\n [image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 POST Wrestling (@postwrestling.com<\/a>) January 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Courtesy: WWE Drew McIntyre addressed the audience at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday following his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,110072,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-687889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-drew-mcintyre","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687889","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=687889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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