McIntyre said all the details are not correct, but he was upset and left.
After Drew McIntyre was eliminated by Damian Priest in the 2025 men’s Royal Rumble match, reports emerged from Fightful Select and PWInsider that McIntyre was frustrated about someone ‘having to get their moves in’ and Drew soon left the stadium.
Both sources listed L.A. Knight as that ‘someone.’ McIntyre confirmed the story during his appearance on Getting Over. Circling back to the PWInsider write-up, it was noted that McIntyre was upset about Knight’s ‘errant movement’ when he interrupted a planned elimination spot with Drew and Priest.
McIntyre stated that he did the grown-up thing and left because he knows how things can get when emotions are high.
I mean, not all the details are accurate but yeah, I was fuming (at WWE Royal Rumble) and I let everybody know what I thought and then I left. Because I’ve learned as an adult, nothing good happens when you’re highly emotional so just calm down, get the facts, then deal with it, because I don’t want to punch somebody in the head and be unprofessional and then find out facts later I didn’t know about. It was the grown-up thing to do.
For me, it’s just if I ever feel somebody did something disrespectful, went into business for themselves and the likes. That’s when I get frustrated and sometimes it’s not what it appears on the surface and you have to get all the facts together and you have to just calm down. It’s just fun that every time I have a moment — it doesn’t happen often (he laughed). (Damian) Priest finally jokes about it on the promo because that’s all he’s got aside, ‘Drew complains all the time. He’s always gonna leave the building’ and I was like, ‘Come on, mate, it’s a couple times in a few years.’ Consider I’m Scottish, I got an anger problem, that’s not too bad. Also, if I stayed, I might have punched some people out and been like, oh, actually, it wasn’t their fault. Wakey, wakey.
The situation involving Knight and McIntyre was referenced on the 2/7 Friday Night SmackDown prior to a Triple Threat that both were involved in. Knight said on the microphone, ‘Oh wait, I forgot to get my stuff in.’
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Getting Over: Wrestling Podcast with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
