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News regarding Drew McIntyre’s creative direction in WWE following the 2025 Royal Rumble PLE

Aaron Rift

It was previously reported that at the 2025 WWE Royal Rumble PLE, Drew McIntyre was allegedly “screaming and cursing” that “someone had to get their moves in” at the expense of a number of stories in the match. McIntyre was said to have “stormed out” of the building.

Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com referred to the Rumble story as “minor” and noted that it’s “not something likely to mean anything going forward and very few noticed it.” Prior to the February 7th 2025 edition of Smackdown, general manager Nick Aldis officially confirmed that McIntyre has joined the Smackdown brand and Meltzer stated the following about McIntyre’s creative direction…

“He’ll be working with Damian Priest at first but the idea of him moving to Smackdown dates back long before there were any ideas for him and Priest. He’d been pushing Roman Reigns in his promos for months for that reason. There is also a plan right now to get to Cody Rhodes vs. McIntyre, which was scheduled for 2023 before Rhodes ended up not winning the title that year.”

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