superstar Drew McIntyre has offered some rare praise to Happy Corbin and defended him against his critics.
The Scottish Warrior is poised to finally get his hands on his rival at 38 three months after , and he’s confident they’ll create something special in Dallas.
He exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘I’m very excited about it, personally. I’ve seen some of the comments when the match was made, the internet can be very harsh place.
‘I appreciate all my fans around the world, their reaction is, “Drew’s not wrestling for the title? He won the title from Brock two years along, he fought for the title last year, this year he’s fighting Corbin?!”
‘I understand that and I appreciate that, but the way I see it is, aside from his obvious talent in the ring – anyone who says he’s not talented in-ring is lying to themselves.’
As well as his skills in the ring, Corbin also has an understanding of .
‘We actually have a genuine hated bad guy that everyone genuinely dislikes.’ If people online are saying, “This guy’s such a good bad guy, he really entertains me”, that’s not a good bad guy,’ Drew laughed.
‘A true bad guy is somebody you ltierally despise and want to see get their butt kicked! That’s what we’ve got right now, and that’s what I’ve got in my story with Corbin.’
The former world champion also pointed to the longevity in there storyline, which has gone on for a while without the pair actually locking up in a televised singles match.
‘In this day and age, to get a significant feud for any period of time is almost impossible! People’s attention spans are shorter, keeping them interested is harder these days,’ he pondered. ‘You’ve got the television show, social media content, there’s so much coming at you at once, it gets very old quick!’
However, he pointed to the way he and Corbin have been able to buck the trend with their story, and let things develop at a different pace.
‘Especially when I was champion, it would be a match to set up a match to set up a tag match to finally pay it off with another match, and perhaps another match. Before you know it, we’ve had 10 matches,’ he laughed.
Looking ahead to the match itself, McIntyre has high hopes for the action between the ropes, and he wants to reach a point where fans don’t doubt his own abilities even if they don’t necessarily like his opponents.
My goal in the future is to make sure that prior to the match people are like, “This is gonna be good!” Rather than afterwards saying it was amazing! That’s the goal in the future – remember when you’re insulting my match, you’re insulting me as well,’ he said.
‘On the biggest stage of all, everybody will come away from it saying, “Wow, that match” – I guess it’ll surprise a lot of people online, but those who know will not be surprised because he’s a hell of an athlete.
‘I’m comfortable with what I do. It’s the oldest story in WWE wrestling wrestling in general – two big, athletic heavyweights going at it.’
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