Drew McIntyre Reveals What WWE Tells People After Releases

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Drew McIntyre has revealed what WWE tells people after their releases.

On September 21, WWE made mass talent cuts following their TKO merger, including the likes of Dolph Ziggler, Mustafa Ali, Dana Brooke, Shelton Benjamin and more.

One top star who is no stranger to the feeling that most of these releases felt is Drew McIntyre, who was let go by the company in 2014. He went on to success across the independent wrestling scene and IMPACT Wrestling before making his return in 2017.

Speaking to Good Karma Wrestling, McIntyre discussed these latest round of WWE cuts. He said:

“I hope they are inspired. From what I gather, the company literally tells people, ‘Do a Drew.’ My brother once said ‘you’ve become a verb.'”

“You have to go out there and reinvent yourself, grow your brand and make yourself more valuable.”

“I believe that’s the advice that the company literally gives people and some of the Superstars that are released and come to me to ask for advice.”

“Hopefully they’ll look at the template of what I did. When I left, the model was usually take that WWE character take it around the world, get paid X amount, the 2nd time around you’ll make a little less and finally you’ll find a wage that you’ll stop on and that will be your wage and hopefully one day you will make it back to WWE.”

“My business mindset was, ‘that’s terrible business sense.’ I’m absolutely not doing that, I’m going to reinvent myself, I’m going to show what I can truly do.”

“Social media is becoming really big which it was becoming huge in 2014. I can take everyone around the world with me on my journey and I’m really going to reinvent what it means to be an independent wrestler.”

McIntyre continued on to explain that he had many people in his corner that helped him make his way back, saying:

“Thankfully a lot of people believed in me, gave me a lot of opportunities, a lot of platforms to show what I can do and I really succeed and everybody can follow that.”

“The next guy was Cody Rhodes and he had his own version which led to the creation of another company.”

“You watch Matt Cardona now, while Cody and I eventually kind of went to the TV level, Matt’s been able to keep it at an independent level but really become super popular, super successful. And he has carny in him that I never truly had.”

Drew McIntyre is set to challenge Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship on Saturday, November 4 at WWE Crown Jewel.

For the full lineup for the event, click here.

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