Drew McIntyre Says That WWE Legends Wouldn't Be Happy With The Current Locker Room

The wrestling industry may be a little too easy these days for current talent. It is much more of an entertainment, in the sense of Hollywood styled themes and gimmicks, than ever before. Many of the wrestlers of times past have and continue to express their dissatisfaction of the current state of wrestling today.

There are plenty of shoot interviews in which wrestlers who wrestled in the 60s through the 80s tell about coming up the hard way while making their way to the top. Some people slept outside in the cruel night air, and some wrestlers such as the late Ultimate Warrior and Sting lived in a car together for a while and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches just to survive. How ironic that Drew McIntyre, who is currently on the RAW brand, also shares the same sentiment as the stars of the past about the current state of the locker room and how he essentially got the message earlier on in his career.

McIntyre told Jim Ross on The Ross Report about his encounter with Chad Gable this past Monday on RAW. Before their match he told Gable "I’m gonna fight to get out of your wrestling…when the time comes I’m gonna smack you…I wanna see some fire from you". McIntyre said he was going to give him a beating if he did not step up in the match, which McIntyre felt that he did. McIntyre went on to say that the wrestlers cannot blame themselves if they cannot figure out the story because if they can't there are people in NXT who are waiting to take their place.

McIntyre goes on to say that there are generals in the locker room, and he wants them to learn by example. McIntyre tells his story on when he was released. He said it was the best thing that happened to him because he "finally got reunited with that fire". McIntyre said he disappointed himself with his first WWE run because he stopped working out as hard and was not pitching himself and becoming a better character. He also said Smackdown and RAW has some good moments, but there are also some filler moments and guys "sitting around " and guys that "don't have the passion for it".

It took a fall from McIntyre to see what was going on and to find his fire again for the wrestling business. Drew McIntyre has to be one of the ring generals now seeing that the state of the locker room has faltered. He mixed in his own experience of what happened to him and he seems more than ever determined not to be released again. It is like you can actually feel that he is very serious when you see him come out of the gorilla position. He seems like a more hardened individual who realizes what the sport of wrestling is really about: giving it your all and telling that story to make it all seem real to the audience.