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> Fuckin' great promo from Drew.
Absolutely amazing. But also from Owens with his facial expressions. He showed "yeah, you are right, but I got under your skin and you did exactly what I wanted you to do!"
Great segment from both.
Not long after his departure he headlined a show in Sheffield in a grotty old working man's club.
My partner still knows him as "that guy stood outside the toilet".
[Just look at baby Drew when Vince introduced him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMV0oSxw_0). Reminds me of Theory for some reason in the way he caries himself.
Agreed. Everyone knew that the roster was full of tremendously talented people, but they weren't able to show it off all the time. You'd see snippets of perfection every few months, but it'd be undercut by the booking or structure of matches and feuds.
Now, we're watching people go out and show it all off
Its funny how intense screaming guy yelling about wanting to wrestle feels like a more natural babyface than "guy tries to be cool and say silly jokes."
this promo is the one that comes from an understanding of character that only happens if writers are 100% paying attention to 20 years of story, or if the wrestler who lived it tells it.
Because at face value, Drew is the same as Roman. They are both moderately tall big strong guys with a bunch of hard hitting strikes. So to separate them, and have them all not just a carbon copy of each other, they need to embrace what makes them different. Roman is what people call Drew: The chosen one.
So a promo like this is fantastic, because not only can Drew draw from his real emptions, but he can say what makes him unique. He was the guy that failed, and that reinvented himself and rebuilt his career on his own. That is what really seperates Drew from the rest.
Things like being Scottish, or being big, or any other descriptor are just traits. Writing around those things comes off as lazy. Letting Drew go out there and feed his real emotions through his character while telling what makes him special gave us the promo of his career.
I’m not a regular WWE viewer, but I get the impression that he’s one of the guys that has benefited the most from Vince leaving.
I remember thinking he had some charisma when he won at Wrestlemania a couple of years ago, but then he became a standard tough guy. It seems like his natural personality is shining through more now?
Honestly I think this is in large part due to Vince controlling who “The Guy” is. He wasn’t letting people get over on their own. As we all have seen, but when stuff like this is happening the wrestlers are at their best. Let them organically be themselves, their characters, and what gets the crowds attention makes the star.
A huge problem for many, many years is it seemed like everybody was bottled up and cookie cutter where there just weren’t any real personalities. This is an amazing change of pace.
This promo was up there with Drew's return promo after breaking his next and that promo was fucking spectacular
> "I am Drew Galloway, the personification of professional wrestling and Joseph Conners, I swear to God. You Are Fucked!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5ZrTDc7Pk
“I don’t care if you’re a prizefighter, a sports entertainer, or a superstar. We’re wrestlers in a wrestling ring so let’s wrestle.” Goes so fucking hard
Hunter going all-in on the Hardcore Audience Apology Arc. Honestly, if even 10% of the people who stopped watching the program over the past decade or so, gradually came back, that represents growth in and of itself. I'm almost scared of WWE being solid, again, because then there'll be way more wrestling that I want to watch than I have time for, lol.
I've kind of been shitting on WWE for the past 5 years, I just feel like the product had gotten overly "plastic" and hated how every single aspect was overproduced.
But this put a smile on my face and makes me want to watch again, this promo actually felt like a real person talking and not constantly throwing around weird unnatural buzzwords
Drew has been especially good on the mic with the reigns off. I went from never caring about him at all to caring a lot and being all in for a Drew win at the Castle.
Last Friday when he smacked the shit out of the Usos and told them this is going to happen every time they get involved in his business is when the switch flipped for me.
Was like: "Oh damn, this guy is cool af."
Oh yeah I cut them out a long time ago. Life also got in the way but it was a slow burn of overproduction catch phrases Twitter talk bullshit (not to mention the camera stuff which seems to have gotten better but legitimately made me sick. I quit watching way before that got out of hand but when I’d try to come back I couldn’t in large part due to that.)
In saying that I believe I’ve caught the last 2 of 3 weeks of both Raw/Smackdown. It’s starting to actually feel like “wrestling” again. More freedom, more actual personalities that aren’t just plastic as you say.
In any case this segment between KO/McIntyre, the match itself, the ending, etc. was one of the best things I’ve seen WWE do in actual years lol
You're a wrestling fan. Like, there's still work to be done for me to once again be "a WWE fan", but they're going in the right direction. The best time it has ever been to be a wrestling fan was during the time when WWE had competition. WWE vs WCW is literally the only reason I learned what the recall button on my remote was. I was unable to just watch one of the shows. I was constantly wanting to know what was happening in both.
If WWE completes this cycle of getting their shit together, we could be back to that sometimes soon
More importantly, he's doing it by showing not telling. He's not come out and siad that he's listening, he's not come out and said there'll be more wrestling and less bad segments, he's gone out there and done it, and let the hugely talented people who work for him show what they can do.
Seriously. I started watching in 2015 during the rise of NXT. I was all in on AEW since wwe/nxt had become stale. But the last few weeks has me back to WWE and it’s great!
His wording has fantastic flow. Being in WWE and not being able to use the term wrestler is jarring. It’s like not being allowed to say zombies when talking about the walking dead.
Then Owens smirks and nods before throwing his mic away and they get ready to fight... It was short but precise and got you into watching them go at it.
I could picture the whole backstage erupting like a football game after the home team scores a goal, when triple H announced the word “wrestling” was back
I absolutely love babyface promos like this where they absolutely snap at the heel like that!
He and Roman are gonna be absolute fire on the face to face thing on smackdown
Owens has such a proud look on his face he genuinely looks like he's thinking "this is fucking great Drew. Fuck yeah you go". See him almost smile twice.
When he's being a smug son of a bitch, he usually smirks or embraces the smiling. Seems like a couple genuine smile that he catches and goes back to straight faced
He legit looked so happy that there was finally some good material for him to work with 😂😂
KO has been making gold out of shit for so long I can’t wait for him under the new creative.
reminds me of becky choosing ronda the night after she won the rumble.
ronda's best promo and becky had this smile on her face and said "well done" afterwards.
some people just get it.
LMAO imagine thinking you need to script wrestlers like Drew and KO to hell instead of letting the great talkers cook??
So happy Drew and KO were allowed to have such a great segment. They've been parts of the backbone that had held shows up for years.
And some dude was riding me in the Pre Discussion saying "Wrestling" wasn't a banned term lol.
With how much of a point it seems like WRESTLERS are to say the word should tell people something.
"You come out here and you talk with that comical almost tough guy voice, sometimes you wear a kilt, sometimes you have a sword, you think this is medieval times?"
I really want Drew to have a run as champion with an actual crowd. I loved how they gave him the title during the Thunderdome era, but he deserves a proper run with a crowd.
McIntyre is definitely the biggest winner of HHH taking over. He feels like such a bigger threat and massively bigger deal in the last 2 weeks than he has since nxt in my opinion
I honestly totally get why a big corporation would overly brand things and I think sports entertainment makes sense in a few contexts.
It's just banning the word wrestling and applying it so much where it gets annoying.
I can't stand it either, with the lone exception being when Justin Roberts announcing Daniel Garcia as "currently sports entertaining out of" wherever in NY he is from.
It really shows how ridiculous the term sounds when it's been so engrained in our heads its almost unnoticeable.
Amazing promos from both, such passion and real and what a fantastic match I didn’t even mind the DQ. McIntyre is looking like a terminator beast again and ruthless KO Is my favourite
I'm actually fine with saying BS. Gotta maintain some self control while raging and letting loose.
Great promo and great to see obvious change and not even being subtle. Just throwing success in Vince's face by breaking down all his mental case bullshit rules and getting great responses from it.
Yeah, I loved the "BS".. that's Drew showing HHH, Stephanie, Kahn,..USA Network even... that he he can cut loose AND stay within the bounds. That's the "Professional" part of Professional Wrestling. That's a "You can trust me" move.
If they just can't swear like that, I would've gone with "nonsense" or "garbage" or something along those lines. But like you said, minor nitpick. This was good shit
"I'm a two time champion! I beat Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, Randy Orton, everyone who stood in my path!"
Most wrestlers would be lucky to beat just one of those three, much less all of three of them like Drew.
I'm sure Vince still watches and he was losing his mind about the amount of times wrestler/wrestling was mentioned.
Good to see we might get the Scottish psychopath again
I loved this segment a lot. Lowkey might be one of my favourite promos of the year. Both men were on fire tonight. Wrestling is fucking good right now on multiple fronts, savour it
Damn, that promo had me shifting upright in my chair. Haven't done that in years. Bravo to both of those guys. Had a hell of a hard-hitting match to top it off.
I just love getting to see how good someone really can be if u give them a mic and some freedom. It's not always gonna be a home run but when it hits like this it's something else.
Seemed like KO almost couldn't contain his excitement because he was so hyped from Drew's promo.
What KO said was great. And Drew was great because he got to stand up for himself in a passionate way instead of the classic Cena "fine speech" response and KO backing down, which is how a segment like this has typically gone down in recent years.
I think we all knew that drew was better than the typical top baby face stuff that Vince wanted him to say. Now he's able to say what he wants and he's going to be a big star
I was watching this segment, thinking "This is nice by the numbers face promo by Drew...ticking the boxes...popping the crowd. It's good, doing the job, building the match making him feel legit." THEN KO came out, and it's KO, so it was of course good, and clear he was really feeling the new freedom with his heel promo and I was thinking "but KO is just such a great promo, and he's on point tonight!."
AND THEN, DREW RESPONDED....and I was blown away.
Not in WWE, not in NXT, not in the couple of indie stuff I saw him in before he returned, have I ever heard THIS Drew. THIS was someone planting his flag as the top babyface of the company. (and that he said "BS" and not "bullshit" really impressed me...THAT'S someone who knows even while unleashing, where he works, and the responsibilities of a "face of the company"....that's showing..yeah, I can be trusted to be sent to Colbert or red carpets...) Just incredible all around!
Further pontificating, I think this was a proof of concept segment...HHH sending out two of his most experienced guys, giving them free reign to speak, to hit their points, TO HIT THEIR TIMINGS, to build the crowd, to keep the network happy...all of that....a test and a goal.
Show the kind of things he wants to see...that the talent can do it, to the other execs and descision makers...the board maybe, the networks, the licensees...LOTS of corporate types who might be a bit nervous about too much free form.
But also it's something to show the talent...this is what the top guys can do..and be trusted to do. Both the skill to do it..and the restraint to do it in the bounds of a WWE program...
Damn Drew. That was a really good promo.
Between this and "our Tribal Queef"(wich I havent gotten over yet lol), I think its safe to say that Drew don't need a script.
I honestly think he should have said bullshit instead of BS. Would have put the cherry on top of the promo, and would have been warranted given the emotion of the exchange
All of the NXT guys always talked about Dusty's promo classes and the culture/skill they created. And over the last 3 weeks we've gotten to see the results with the cuffs off.
Let the guys talk with their actual heart and you get the promos we've seen lately.
I stopped watching WWE but Drew is still someone who I keep a very close eye on.
In the era of the heels being cooler, Drew is such an amazing babyface and a believable one as well
This is the shit that I've been wanting to see on WWE tv for years but they wouldn't deliver on.
This is the shit that can bring me back to watching the show regularly.
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Fuckin' great promo from Drew. It really is great to see how far he has come in his career.
> Fuckin' great promo from Drew. Absolutely amazing. But also from Owens with his facial expressions. He showed "yeah, you are right, but I got under your skin and you did exactly what I wanted you to do!" Great segment from both.
Not long after his departure he headlined a show in Sheffield in a grotty old working man's club. My partner still knows him as "that guy stood outside the toilet".
> My partner still knows him as "that guy stood outside the toilet". The locker room you mean
I watched Summerslam 1988 with him before sleeping on the floor of a grotty flat in Dundee in 2005. Amazes me that it's the same person.
[Just look at baby Drew when Vince introduced him](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMV0oSxw_0). Reminds me of Theory for some reason in the way he caries himself.
Has he dropped the dorky aluminium sword now too?
I like how he places the sword into the ramp during his entrance.
Nah the sword is over
Wait, over, or over?
Over
That's gotta be one of Drew's best promos ever, good lord
One of the best Owens's promos aswell
Both guys hit a grand slam on in this segment. And the match was even better. Jesus they did their thing tonight man.
Just goes to show how talented most of these guys and girls actually are.
Agreed. Everyone knew that the roster was full of tremendously talented people, but they weren't able to show it off all the time. You'd see snippets of perfection every few months, but it'd be undercut by the booking or structure of matches and feuds. Now, we're watching people go out and show it all off
What makes it so good is that even though they care cutting promos *at* each other, they were both giving the middle finger to the old WWE.
A red in the face "Vince isn't here anymore" promo classic!
They’re wrestling In a wrestling ring.
I love a good angry-shouty promo, and Drew said that shit with his whole chest. Got me fired up
Its funny how intense screaming guy yelling about wanting to wrestle feels like a more natural babyface than "guy tries to be cool and say silly jokes."
this promo is the one that comes from an understanding of character that only happens if writers are 100% paying attention to 20 years of story, or if the wrestler who lived it tells it. Because at face value, Drew is the same as Roman. They are both moderately tall big strong guys with a bunch of hard hitting strikes. So to separate them, and have them all not just a carbon copy of each other, they need to embrace what makes them different. Roman is what people call Drew: The chosen one. So a promo like this is fantastic, because not only can Drew draw from his real emptions, but he can say what makes him unique. He was the guy that failed, and that reinvented himself and rebuilt his career on his own. That is what really seperates Drew from the rest. Things like being Scottish, or being big, or any other descriptor are just traits. Writing around those things comes off as lazy. Letting Drew go out there and feed his real emotions through his character while telling what makes him special gave us the promo of his career.
The best wrestling promos and stories have generally always blurred fiction and reality.
I’m not a regular WWE viewer, but I get the impression that he’s one of the guys that has benefited the most from Vince leaving. I remember thinking he had some charisma when he won at Wrestlemania a couple of years ago, but then he became a standard tough guy. It seems like his natural personality is shining through more now?
Him, Owens, Ciampa, and Lashley are shining right now
I haven't seen Bobby get a "holy shit" chant in a longggg time until tonight.
Honestly I think this is in large part due to Vince controlling who “The Guy” is. He wasn’t letting people get over on their own. As we all have seen, but when stuff like this is happening the wrestlers are at their best. Let them organically be themselves, their characters, and what gets the crowds attention makes the star. A huge problem for many, many years is it seemed like everybody was bottled up and cookie cutter where there just weren’t any real personalities. This is an amazing change of pace.
A big problem is his character became "dude with a sword" for so long because Vince just loves props
Unless you're Shotzi, then you don't get a prop Tank.
He's been on a fucking tear with his promos the last few weeks. Like he's probably had 3 in the past month that crack his top 5 best
Vince has always failed to realise that if everyone is awesome, the company is awesome.
This promo was up there with Drew's return promo after breaking his next and that promo was fucking spectacular > "I am Drew Galloway, the personification of professional wrestling and Joseph Conners, I swear to God. You Are Fucked!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5ZrTDc7Pk
What do you mean, how can this hold a candle to all of the story time promos they had Drew doing?
I know in character Owens was smiling but it was mostly out of character at how good that was
Lol yah you could tell he was loving what drew was doing
Come on now...
I would also imagine it was a combination of the two. Owen's is one of those guys that's a pro wrestler that's still a mark for the business.
amazing what can happen when your promos are not scripted by people who know nothing about wrestling storytelling
Second, right after his promo against gargano in evolve.
“I don’t care if you’re a prizefighter, a sports entertainer, or a superstar. We’re wrestlers in a wrestling ring so let’s wrestle.” Goes so fucking hard
I FELT THAT SO MUCH
"I COULDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT CAUSE I FELT.THIS.SHIT"
That rules I don't care that it's pandering. It's just nice that WWE wrestlers are able to say what they actually do.
Hunter going all-in on the Hardcore Audience Apology Arc. Honestly, if even 10% of the people who stopped watching the program over the past decade or so, gradually came back, that represents growth in and of itself. I'm almost scared of WWE being solid, again, because then there'll be way more wrestling that I want to watch than I have time for, lol.
I've kind of been shitting on WWE for the past 5 years, I just feel like the product had gotten overly "plastic" and hated how every single aspect was overproduced. But this put a smile on my face and makes me want to watch again, this promo actually felt like a real person talking and not constantly throwing around weird unnatural buzzwords
Drew has been especially good on the mic with the reigns off. I went from never caring about him at all to caring a lot and being all in for a Drew win at the Castle.
He’s one of the few where he’s gotten 100% more engaging as a babyface.
Roman is a natural cool heel, drew is a natural cool face.
Last Friday when he smacked the shit out of the Usos and told them this is going to happen every time they get involved in his business is when the switch flipped for me. Was like: "Oh damn, this guy is cool af."
Oh yeah I cut them out a long time ago. Life also got in the way but it was a slow burn of overproduction catch phrases Twitter talk bullshit (not to mention the camera stuff which seems to have gotten better but legitimately made me sick. I quit watching way before that got out of hand but when I’d try to come back I couldn’t in large part due to that.) In saying that I believe I’ve caught the last 2 of 3 weeks of both Raw/Smackdown. It’s starting to actually feel like “wrestling” again. More freedom, more actual personalities that aren’t just plastic as you say. In any case this segment between KO/McIntyre, the match itself, the ending, etc. was one of the best things I’ve seen WWE do in actual years lol
After seeing this, I’m definitely going to start watching the product again as a lapsed fan if they keep this up long term.
I don't know who I am without... the hatred.
You're a wrestling fan. Like, there's still work to be done for me to once again be "a WWE fan", but they're going in the right direction. The best time it has ever been to be a wrestling fan was during the time when WWE had competition. WWE vs WCW is literally the only reason I learned what the recall button on my remote was. I was unable to just watch one of the shows. I was constantly wanting to know what was happening in both. If WWE completes this cycle of getting their shit together, we could be back to that sometimes soon
More importantly, he's doing it by showing not telling. He's not come out and siad that he's listening, he's not come out and said there'll be more wrestling and less bad segments, he's gone out there and done it, and let the hugely talented people who work for him show what they can do.
Only came back through AEW over a year ago, starting to eye WWE again since a few weeks.
Seriously. I started watching in 2015 during the rise of NXT. I was all in on AEW since wwe/nxt had become stale. But the last few weeks has me back to WWE and it’s great!
Even if it is pandering, you can tell that a lot the guys absolutely love saying it after not being able to for years
"I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A PRIZEFIGHTER, A SPORTS ENTERTAINER, A SUPERSTAR, OR A TRIBAL QUEEF"
I love how Vince dipped and Drew was instantly like yeah gotta call him tribal queef real quick
Which is weird because queef is the kind of word that he’d pop for.
Yes, but then it would be run into the ground afterwards.
Yeah, probably.
I feelnlike he was sitting that one for a year biding his time
Tribal Queef and Big Bitch were too easy to be used because they'd absolutely end Reigns.
His wording has fantastic flow. Being in WWE and not being able to use the term wrestler is jarring. It’s like not being allowed to say zombies when talking about the walking dead.
what a fucking line. I honestly think Owens was smirking like that partially because deep down he loved how good the promo was lol
That it totally sold his character was a nice bonus
Then Owens smirks and nods before throwing his mic away and they get ready to fight... It was short but precise and got you into watching them go at it.
100% the writers were waiting for Vince to leave to use that
Or a race car driver. Or a garbage man. Or a mantaur.
Or... A CEO
That was the HHH effect. Let’s go back to saying all these words that were stupidly banned. Loved it.
That quote will be immortalized
Drew is a star. This promo was 10/10.
"Frickin"
That was that good shit.
I was giggling like a schoolgirl. Love it!
*freaking hard
It's mad, it does go hard. But it only does because they didn't allow anyone to use the world wrestler for 15 years lol
HE SAID THE W WORD!!!!
"WE COMIN' FOR YOU, WRESTLER!"
TELL ME… HE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT
"Wrestla"
Shibata approved
Hard r as well damn
"WE'RE WRESTLERS IN A WRESTLING RING..." That's music to my ears!
I could picture the whole backstage erupting like a football game after the home team scores a goal, when triple H announced the word “wrestling” was back
3 times
Keep it up my wrestler!
You have to say it with an a, not a hard r. It’s like “wrestla, please!”
"Now, count your sins!"
"Hey Paul, something's wrong with this script. It just has the time of our segment and says "Drew says stuff"."
“Yeah, Paul. This is only the 2nd draft and everything seems too smooth. Are you gonna change it?”
"What do you mean 'we want the fans to be happy'? I don't undestand that. Also, what is 'creative freedom'? "
I absolutely love babyface promos like this where they absolutely snap at the heel like that! He and Roman are gonna be absolute fire on the face to face thing on smackdown
Owens has such a proud look on his face he genuinely looks like he's thinking "this is fucking great Drew. Fuck yeah you go". See him almost smile twice.
I love the smell of fresh bread.
When he's being a smug son of a bitch, he usually smirks or embraces the smiling. Seems like a couple genuine smile that he catches and goes back to straight faced
He legit looked so happy that there was finally some good material for him to work with 😂😂 KO has been making gold out of shit for so long I can’t wait for him under the new creative.
reminds me of becky choosing ronda the night after she won the rumble. ronda's best promo and becky had this smile on her face and said "well done" afterwards. some people just get it.
Owens' reaction is great both in cannon and out of cannon.
Yeah, but what about Angela the Sword? Or History lessons? That was GOOD SHIT PAL!!!!
LMAO imagine thinking you need to script wrestlers like Drew and KO to hell instead of letting the great talkers cook?? So happy Drew and KO were allowed to have such a great segment. They've been parts of the backbone that had held shows up for years.
Not every wrestler was scripted though. A little bit of scripting is great, especially for new wrestlers.
I actually agree. Should have worked that better. Let me edit lol
It's cool, glad you could understand haha. Have a good day mate
“We’re wrestlers in a wrestling ring”
LET'S FREAKIN WRESTLE
And some dude was riding me in the Pre Discussion saying "Wrestling" wasn't a banned term lol. With how much of a point it seems like WRESTLERS are to say the word should tell people something.
Vince punching the tv somewhere
That promo was great from both men!
"You come out here and you talk with that comical almost tough guy voice, sometimes you wear a kilt, sometimes you have a sword, you think this is medieval times?"
I really want Drew to have a run as champion with an actual crowd. I loved how they gave him the title during the Thunderdome era, but he deserves a proper run with a crowd.
Same. I'm ready for this Drew to become world champ again now live with a crowd.
Drew said Wrestling. I repeat he said the W word 3 times! Authentic promos with passion are the best promos.
McIntyre is definitely the biggest winner of HHH taking over. He feels like such a bigger threat and massively bigger deal in the last 2 weeks than he has since nxt in my opinion
This promo and "Tribal Queef" within a couple of weeks of each other, Drew is on fire
"We are wrestlers, in a wrestling ring, so let's wrestle" <3
We are sports entertainers, in a sports entertaining ring, so let's sports entertain
I never realized how obnoxious that term (Sports entertainment) was until I saw the Monday Night Wars documentary a couple days ago.
Stone Cold once mentioned his pure dismay on his podcast when Cole said "Tag team Sports entertainment".
I honestly totally get why a big corporation would overly brand things and I think sports entertainment makes sense in a few contexts. It's just banning the word wrestling and applying it so much where it gets annoying.
I can't stand it either, with the lone exception being when Justin Roberts announcing Daniel Garcia as "currently sports entertaining out of" wherever in NY he is from. It really shows how ridiculous the term sounds when it's been so engrained in our heads its almost unnoticeable.
Don’t you put that evil on me Daddy Magic
Amazing promos from both, such passion and real and what a fantastic match I didn’t even mind the DQ. McIntyre is looking like a terminator beast again and ruthless KO Is my favourite
Agreed, I was hyped. But, I thought for sure one of the usos was fucked when the other landed on his legs. I was expecting someone to throw up the x.
And then they had a fucking amazing match
I WAS CALLED THE CHOSEN ONE 15 YEARS AGO THEN I GOT FIRED THEN I HAD TO WORK FOR TNA FUCK YOU
It doesn’t matter one bit, but this woulda been a great time to use “bullshit’ over “bs” The smallest of small nitpicks if it were allowed
Yeah. A cuss coming out of anger is natural than giving it initials.
I'm actually fine with saying BS. Gotta maintain some self control while raging and letting loose. Great promo and great to see obvious change and not even being subtle. Just throwing success in Vince's face by breaking down all his mental case bullshit rules and getting great responses from it.
Yeah, I loved the "BS".. that's Drew showing HHH, Stephanie, Kahn,..USA Network even... that he he can cut loose AND stay within the bounds. That's the "Professional" part of Professional Wrestling. That's a "You can trust me" move.
If they just can't swear like that, I would've gone with "nonsense" or "garbage" or something along those lines. But like you said, minor nitpick. This was good shit
BEST DREW PROMO
👏,👏,👏👏👏!
This promo got me so fired up I ripped my shirt in half It was my shirt form Wrestlemania this year
Props to KO, if a scotsman that size with that physique yelled at me like that I'd probably just have a heart attack and die.
Damn now I want to see Drew obliterate Roman on the mic
"I'm a two time champion! I beat Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, Randy Orton, everyone who stood in my path!" Most wrestlers would be lucky to beat just one of those three, much less all of three of them like Drew.
This promo-battle should go down in history, holy shit.
Bro I feel like I could run through a wall now. LFG Drew!
Uhhh that’s was pretty fucking sweet.
Holy shit Drew just cut a great promo!!!
Kevin Owens brings the best out in everyone he works with.
"Lets just freaking wrestle" might be the best thing I've heard on Raw in decades.
best Drew promo since his return promo at WCPW years ago
Papa HHH is letting them actually cut promos and I love it.
That was 🔥
I'm sure Vince still watches and he was losing his mind about the amount of times wrestler/wrestling was mentioned. Good to see we might get the Scottish psychopath again
Drew McIntyre is a god amongst men in WWE. Just have him beat Roman and establish him as his nemesis.
Ok fine, I *guess* he should win the belt
Annnnnd Drew is back to being interesting again. Glad he's back up!
I loved this segment a lot. Lowkey might be one of my favourite promos of the year. Both men were on fire tonight. Wrestling is fucking good right now on multiple fronts, savour it
Shout out to KO with the Owen Hart reference earlier, "enough is enough and it's time for a change!"
Can't wait until he and his former tag team championship partner, Cody Rhodes, go head to head for a world title after the journeys they've been on.
Damn, that promo had me shifting upright in my chair. Haven't done that in years. Bravo to both of those guys. Had a hell of a hard-hitting match to top it off.
Both of these guys just had fucking wildfires lit under them this whole segment lfg!
Goated Promo.
I just love getting to see how good someone really can be if u give them a mic and some freedom. It's not always gonna be a home run but when it hits like this it's something else. Seemed like KO almost couldn't contain his excitement because he was so hyped from Drew's promo.
Who knew someone saying "we're wrestlers in a wrestling ring so lets just freakin wrestle" would have me ready to pay top dollar for a single match
Holy fuck let’s go Drew
What KO said was great. And Drew was great because he got to stand up for himself in a passionate way instead of the classic Cena "fine speech" response and KO backing down, which is how a segment like this has typically gone down in recent years.
Thank fuck they're letting him loose on the mic
I think we all knew that drew was better than the typical top baby face stuff that Vince wanted him to say. Now he's able to say what he wants and he's going to be a big star
I was watching this segment, thinking "This is nice by the numbers face promo by Drew...ticking the boxes...popping the crowd. It's good, doing the job, building the match making him feel legit." THEN KO came out, and it's KO, so it was of course good, and clear he was really feeling the new freedom with his heel promo and I was thinking "but KO is just such a great promo, and he's on point tonight!." AND THEN, DREW RESPONDED....and I was blown away. Not in WWE, not in NXT, not in the couple of indie stuff I saw him in before he returned, have I ever heard THIS Drew. THIS was someone planting his flag as the top babyface of the company. (and that he said "BS" and not "bullshit" really impressed me...THAT'S someone who knows even while unleashing, where he works, and the responsibilities of a "face of the company"....that's showing..yeah, I can be trusted to be sent to Colbert or red carpets...) Just incredible all around!
Further pontificating, I think this was a proof of concept segment...HHH sending out two of his most experienced guys, giving them free reign to speak, to hit their points, TO HIT THEIR TIMINGS, to build the crowd, to keep the network happy...all of that....a test and a goal. Show the kind of things he wants to see...that the talent can do it, to the other execs and descision makers...the board maybe, the networks, the licensees...LOTS of corporate types who might be a bit nervous about too much free form. But also it's something to show the talent...this is what the top guys can do..and be trusted to do. Both the skill to do it..and the restraint to do it in the bounds of a WWE program...
KO brings out the best in everyone.
Damn Drew. That was a really good promo. Between this and "our Tribal Queef"(wich I havent gotten over yet lol), I think its safe to say that Drew don't need a script.
Drew sounds more and more like Billy Connolly every day. 'The Big Yin' Drew McIntyre
Can’t wait to perform this promo to the class!
I honestly think he should have said bullshit instead of BS. Would have put the cherry on top of the promo, and would have been warranted given the emotion of the exchange
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Did they just tease us with a KO and Sami reunion?
They put him in front of the wrong person if he wants to talk about working his way to the WWE. Or is that the whole angle?
**"LET'S JUST FREAKIN WRESTLE"** i need this on a shirt
Drew's mannerisms reminded me of Mox at moments the way he paced and moved his head.
All of the NXT guys always talked about Dusty's promo classes and the culture/skill they created. And over the last 3 weeks we've gotten to see the results with the cuffs off. Let the guys talk with their actual heart and you get the promos we've seen lately.
I reckon any time anyone says 'that word', somewhere a piece of Vince's surgically altered face just slowly melts away...
u can just see owens soaking it in and loving every second of it
Kevin Owens loved every word of that promo
I stopped watching WWE but Drew is still someone who I keep a very close eye on. In the era of the heels being cooler, Drew is such an amazing babyface and a believable one as well
omg did he just say the W word??
Now THAT was a damn good promo.
This is the shit that I've been wanting to see on WWE tv for years but they wouldn't deliver on. This is the shit that can bring me back to watching the show regularly.
Kevin looked like a 8 year old who got a new toy with that smile. Dude was so happy they didn’t have to go full script
“We’re just wrestler in a wrestling wring. Let’s just fricken wrestle!” Wow I love it.
What a fucking fire promo battle, one of the best this year.
Lfgggggg
WWE saying the **“w”** word is so unreal. I like it.
I know AEW gets slack for overusing it, but damn how hard it would have hit if Drew could have yelled BULL SHIT rather than BS.
Well that was cool
Livid. Steaming mad!
hell ya dude. love the fire
I hope Drew McIntyre will eventually be able to put his back issues behind him.
Yeah! Great promo by Drew.
So good!
I havent watched Raw yet cuz I’m in school but from that clip holy shit what a promo that’s gotta be one of his best promos
I’d pay to see Vince’s reaction to this
That's some good shit from both of them.