Drew McIntyre

WATCH: Drew McIntyre Opens Up On Viewing WWE Boss Vince McMahon As Father-Figure (VIDEO)

WWE Champion Drew McIntyre appeared as a guest on the latest installment of the SeventySix Capital Leadership Series this week for the special 50th episode.

During the interview with “The Scottish Warrior,” the pro wrestling veteran touched on a wide-variety of pro wrestling topics, including how he broke into the business, the ups and downs of his career and the origins of his famous “Claymore Kick” finishing move.

Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where the reigning WWE Champion talks at length about his relationship with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

“It’s been great. Vince [McMahon] himself, he’s almost like a father figure to me and when my initial run didn’t go to plan, as much as he was trying to help me, as much as the company were trying to help me, I didn’t live up to my potential and quite frankly, I feel like I let him down a lot and this whole journey coming back to the company, I wanted to do it for me, I wanted to do it for my fans, my family but in the back of my mind, I still wanted to make the boss proud for his belief in me all those years ago and show him, ‘Hey, you’ve pretty much got a crystal ball sir.’ Be it telling the world the company’s gonna go public way before it did, the [WWE] Network before it happened, now we’re moving to Peacock, Drew McIntyre’s gonna be a future world champion 10 years before it happens. He saw something in me and I wanted to show him, ‘Hey, I’ve finally become that champion’ that you saw in me all those years ago and he supported me the whole way, he gives absolutely incredible advice and honestly without the journey that I’ve been on and the amount of ups and downs I’ve had to overcome, when I eventually became champion and we literally hit unknown times with the pandemic era with losing our audience, without that journey I’d been on hardening me up, allowing me to face every situation, it prepared me to be probably the only guy that could have led the company during those times because it’s nothing I’ve been through that scares me anymore including being in the unique times we’re in right now.”

Watch the complete Drew McIntyre interview from episode 50 of the SeventySix Capital Leadership Series via the video embedded below, or by visiting YouTube.com.

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