Shocking casual wrestling fans and jaded smarks alike, Drew McIntyre scored a landmark victory in the 2020 Royal Rumble, defying all odds to eliminate nigh-unbeatable supervillain Brock Lesnar as well as ordained WWE protagonist Roman Reigns to earn a main event match at Wrestlemania 36. For many fans, it may have seemed like a left-field result, but it’s incredibly exciting because Drew McIntyre rules -- he’s an absurdly tall Scottish muscleman with a love for kicking dudes in the face.

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Don’t worry if you’ve been sleeping on Drew McIntyre, but this list is a chance to redeem yourself by taking a crash course on the future Wrestlemania 36 main eventer. So read on, check out these matches, and have the confidence to pretend like you’ve been a fan of the Scottish Psychopath all along.

10 Drew McIntyre vs. Christian (WWE Superstars, May 31, 2012)

A couple years after being put forward as Vince McMahon’s “Chosen One,” Drew McIntyre found himself relegated to WWE’s tertiary show, Superstars, where he’d wrestle pretty good 10-minute matches with fellow misfit toys like Chris Masters without much fanfare or spotlight. One of his most high-profile outings during this period was a non-title bout with Intercontinental Champion Christian that highlights McIntyre’s size against the champ as he hurls the normal-sized Christian with classically awesome “big man” moves like the Gorilla Press Slam. It’s especially good for a match happening on the under-est of undercard shows.

9 The WeeLC Match (WWE Extreme Rules 2014, May 4, 2014)

This novelty hardcore match comes with a couple caveats. First, this is actually a comedy match between El Torito and Hornswoggle, accompanied by their respective tall people (Los Matadores and 3MB). More importantly, the window dressing of the match -- the bad puns, the little people stand-ins for the announcers and ref -- is straight-up offensive.

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If you can get past all that, the WeeLC match is -- surprisingly, shockingly -- as ridiculously fun and chaotic as you’d hope. It’s a group of unappreciated joke characters (including McIntyre) going all-in on something stupid with all their hearts, and a potent reminder of just how seriously WWE took McIntyre -- not at all -- as well as how far he’s come in recent years.

8 Drew Galloway vs. Roderick Strong (EVOLVE 35, September 14, 2014)

Drew McIntyre was released from WWE in June of 2014, and Drew Galloway’s first match back on the indies was exactly two months later -- a victory over Chris Hero to earn the EVOLVE championship. From there, amid a few title defenses, Gallowed feuded with future NXT star Roderick Strong. It’s a strong pairing, as Strong was an indie mainstay at the time and Galloway was fresh off a disappointing WWE run and needed to prove himself in the indie scene. Their first match together is a non-title but no less entertaining back-and-forth affair that would carry on through several more bouts.

7 Drew Galloway vs. Jack Jester (ICW Fear & Loathing VII, November 2, 2014)

Drew Galloway was soon welcomed back to his pre-WWE stomping grounds, the Scottish promotion Insane Championship Wrestling, where he was their inaugural World Champion in 2006. Eight years later, he earned a chance to recapture his title from an old friend and countryman, hardcore wrestler Jack Jester, who threatened Galloway with a noose and a branding iron. The resulting match is a brawl as wildly violent as the previous sentence promises as it spills out into the crowd and involves smeared blood and the most disgusting looking table you’ve ever seen before reaching a surprisingly emotional climax, as all friendship-based battles should.

6 Drew Galloway vs. Roderick Strong (EVOLVE 38, March 3, 2015)

After a “no contest” result from their grudge match at EVOLVE 36, Drew Galloway and Roderick Strong’s blood feud escalated into an intense steel cage match that had at least one lunatic in the crowd chanting “I like violence.” Strong is such a major league jerk that it’s a joy when Galloway lawn darts him face-first into the cage wall and, later, nearly implodes the ring with a Superplex. Strong also brings the heat by spamming the nastiest Sick Kicks until the Ref assumes that Galloway is dead. This would be a fitting end for their feud, but what ends up coming next is, of course, the natural conclusion: a match for the EVOLVE Championship.

5 Drew Galloway vs. Grado (ICW Insane Entertainment System Tour - The Princess Is In Another Castle, April 11, 2015)

Drew Galloway’s run as ICW World Champion lasted over a year and around 25 title defenses, including several against beloved Scottish comedy wrestler Grado, who looks suspiciously like Colt Cabana and Patton Oswalt had a baby. Their first title encounter happened just down the street from a concurrent WWE house show in Nottingham, England in a match that opens with some fun comedy wrestling antics before taking a turn into a more serious bout. By the end of the match, Galloway has to consider how far he has to go to put away a challenger he’s friends with -- especially when Grado begins resorting to underhanded tactics.

4 Drew Galloway vs. Will Ospreay (WCPW Exit Wounds, March 27, 2017)

During his time on the Indies, Drew Galloway also wrestled for What Culture Pro Wrestling (later known as Defy Wrestling) and defended his WCPW Championship against British workhorse Will Ospreay, throwing the NJPW star into a bunch of steel chairs and kicking him square in the face in an effort that Dave Meltzer gave 4.5 stars, if that kind of thing matters to you. It’s basically like an indie version of the McIntyre/Christian match from earlier in this list, showing what a heavyweight vs. junior heavyweight match would be like without a bunch of WWE all over it.

3 Drew McIntyre vs. Oney Lorcan (NXT, April 12, 2017)

Drew McIntyre’s time outside of WWE led to a return to the company that began with a stint in NXT, where he fought a main event debut match against Oney Lorcan. The bout is as hard-hitting as you’d expect for these two, with both guys hitting one another as hard as possible and McIntyre busting out some of his fun go-to moves like catching a wrestler mid-high-flying-move as well as the always-impressive Spider Suplex. It’s a short match with nothing at stake aside from re-establishing McIntyre as a formidable wrestler after years of being a joke on WWE television, but it’s still well worth seeking out.

2 Drew McIntyre vs. Andrade “Cien” Almas (NXT Takeover: War Games, November 18, 2017)

Drew McIntyre’s run on NXT was woefully short thanks to an unfortunate injury and a main roster “promotion” once he got healthy again, but his last match for NXT is one of his best, taking on rudo luchador (and criminally undervalued) Andrade “Cien” Almas to defend his NXT Championship.

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McIntyre has taken on high flyers before, but rarely a high flyer you want him to catch and launch as far as humanly possible like the villainous Almas. In the NXT Takeover tradition, the match is a competitive bout with a hot crowd -- and a surprise ending.

1 Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler vs. Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins (WWE Hell in a Cell, September 16, 2018)

Despite being a hero on NXT, Drew McIntyre re-debuted on WWE’s main roster as a villainous henchman to Dolph Ziggler. The pair eventually captured the Raw Tag Team Championships and entered a feud with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose. Their title match on the 2018 edition of Hell in a Cell is one of McIntyre’s best main roster efforts thanks not only to McIntyre’s skill, but also Ambrose and Rollins’ tag team acumen, Dolph Ziggler’s ability to get wrecked in the most entertaining way possible, and some really amazing near-falls. It’s a very fun match that’s also pretty representative of McIntyre’s current main roster run leading up to his surprise Royal Rumble win -- just an imposing bad guy who you could tell had way more to offer.

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