57 this weekend.

W W E Royal Rumble next weekend, and we're now joined with W W E Champion and the star of Monday Night Raw Drew McIntyre.

Drew.

How you doing?

Thank you so much for joining us.

I'm fantastic.

Thank you for having me.

Amazing Were so pump to talk to you.

So let's scale back now.

You defeated Brock Lesner at WrestleMania to become W W E champion.

Now you go into Royal Rumble and you put your belt on the line against W.

W A Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg.

Tell me, how is the build up when you're facing these big titans?

What is it like going into big fights like that?

As opposed to any other regular fight?

I guess.

I mean, the match with Brock Lesner, if you know a bit about Brock is a farmer to time.

UFC champion is a little bit unpredictable in the ring.

He's basically an absolute beast.

He does what he wants to do.

So I was going to fight for my first ever world title against brought less on The main event at WrestleMania was about a daunting task, but I we'll pull myself together.

I kick Brock Lesner in the head very hard with my finishing move the claim or and I defeated him in five minutes on one s w w championship that I stand by my side.

Eso Now, if a royal rumble I am in the 31st I'm fighting Goldberg is somebody I used to watch as a kid.

12, 13, 14 years old with my brother.

We turn into WCW, rests on every week.

Check out Bill Goldberg, killing the competition.

Never thought one day I would be sitting WBC champion fighting Bill Goldberg.

I tried to give him the out.

I literally told him fighting you would be fighting.

My dad got a little upset.

She pushed me on my but I got back up and I got in his face.

He challenged me to the match.

I accepted the match and he's got a great legacy.

Is a Hall of Famer hopeful er fans remember him from back in the day.

Perhaps laps fans remember if you've never seen him before.

I used to play football back in the day for the Falcons on intimidating guy.

Check out the beef and checked it out of the room because Drew McIntyre is gonna kick Goldberg's head off his body.

I like it.

Go ahead with the swagger in and Scott, a psychopath I'm not mad at.

So, by the way, going back to the Royal Rumble about a year ago, you made a little noise by throwing the aforementioned Brock Lesner up out of the paint.

So what has the last year been like for you has been wild.

I am 2020 in general, obviously.

You know, I mentioned I achieved my dream of becoming W W e champion, but not quite in the circumstances I imagined.

Um, obviously the pandemic hit roundabout WrestleMania time when I won the W W championship.

I've never been in front of a crowd with the title, but I feel fortunate.

I've been a very unique journey up in wrestling for 20 years.

Ah, lot of ups, but a lot, A lot of downs that prepared me for everything.

Every down taught me a new lesson.

They're prepared me to lead the company forward even in a pandemic.

I was trying new things without the audience there to try and get the crowds attention to get them engaged socially, throwing things against the wall to see what stuck.

I would look into the camera and use catch phrases like from Tiger King, which is big at the time and say, Hey, you cou cats and kittens see if I get a gift out on the Internet and people tuning into the show and now it's been a really crazy time.

The coolest thing we've done thus far, though, is when we pivoted from no fans to create the W W E Thunderdome.

So now we're back in the arenas.

We'll get everything you expect in W W E O the lights, the lasers, the pyrotechnics.

I have a 5 ft claim or sorry to shove into the stage.

It sets off a fire pyrotechnic show.

You couldn't do that with fans.

They're a little bit dangerous.

But most important, we have our fans back in the arena virtually so we can hear them.

We can see them in real time, so that's the cool thing about it.

But they kill this thing about there's WrestleMania.

This year is coming back around to Tampa, Florida, and we're actually gonna have a limited capacity.

The fans will be there in attendance.

And I'm so excited.

I'm so glad you brought that up because we actually got the drop on what the next three WrestleMania is will look like.

We can actually pull up the schedule.

WrestleMania 37 going down in Tampa.

As you mentioned, we'll also that will be a two night event beginning April 11th, April 10th and 11th at Raymond James Stadium in 2022 the W W returns to A T and T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, out Jared Real for WrestleMania 38 then headed to Hollywood for WrestleMania 39 2023 at so Far Stadium.

But in specific regards to 37 down in Tampa, your hometown matter fact like you stay right around the area.

Rather, you got a little more pressure on you now that they've kind of made their name.

Is a title town a little bit down in Tampa?

Oh, yeah, No feeling the pressure.

I've been champing for a while now.

I'm literally sent 15 minutes from Raymond James Stadium, where WrestleMania is going to take place, and it's really cool to see our sports teams doing so well.

Now I've been following the football I recently I never really got into the past couple of years, and the Bucks were, quite frankly terrible but picked up e seen this year.

Brady's been killing it.

I checked out the game against the Saints, and it was really cool.

And even myself is a Scotsman, As somebody is not.

The biggest football fan could understand the significance of Breeze versus Brady, these two legends going against each other.

The box pulled off the win, and this Sunday, I believe it is.

It's gonna be the Packers with our Rogers against Brady.

So I'm excited to be learning with just such big games going on the box, doing so well, hopefully to make it to the Super Bowl.

Maybe I can score myself a little ticket.

Get in there, check out Raymond James Stadium live to see what I could expect for WrestleMania.

Drew.

We only got about 20 seconds until we leave you.

Uh, the only thing I care about your Scotsman, Rangers or Celtic.

It's the only thing I care about.

I'm a big Rangers fan like sale to come and winning the night last nine seasons in a row, they were gonna pull off number 10.

Thankfully, we got it together.

We're gonna cut them off.

One tenant or Rangers are back on Pharmasset Rangers a challenge.

I said I rose up.

The ranks became WB champion.

It's time for you all to win the title on Rangers are gonna win the title this year.

Good on.

You love it.

I gotta ask.

You were a three team crew here, so I'm really curious your take on this.

Would you say that we're more of like a new day kind of crew or a three m B?

In your opinion, I would go with a new day like more successful, more charism way.

He's laughing The way he's laughing right now means he doesn't believe anything that it's very nice.

And I was in three and b that I wasin for the MP was never gonna become W w e glad to be the man I am today.

And you all are certainly closer.

Todo well, you are a w w e champion and we wish you luck as you put that belt on the line.

You were amazing.

And thanks so much for joining us.

You're always welcome back on Sports Nation.

Thank you for having me.

I can't wait to be back in the future and in person one day.

Hey!

Yes, Let's do it.