Drew McIntyre Reveals All Details of His Heated Promo with CM Punk That Almost Resulted in a Vince McMahon Mention

Drew McIntyre recently revealed the response he chose to withhold during his heated verbal exchange with CM Punk on the March 25, 2024 episode of RAW in Chicago. The confrontation featured Punk challenging McIntyre to identify who had labeled him “The Chosen One” in 2009.

During that segment, Punk directly pressed McIntyre:

Chosen one? Who chose you? Who? What was his name, huh? You got the balls to say you’re the chosen one? Tell me, what paragon of good virtue chose you? It wasn’t the people in Chicago.

In a new interview with ITRWrestling, McIntyre disclosed his internal thought process during that moment and why he decided not to deliver what would have been a scathing retort.

What’s going through my mind is: ‘The same person that fired you on your wedding day.’ But I’m a professional. I think by that point, people started seeing what I was capable of on the microphone like it was a new thing. If you watched my stuff outside of WWE, you know when I’m comfortable and the reins are taken off me. I don’t care who it is, I can go toe to toe with anyone. Even Punk.

McIntyre explained that their Chicago confrontation demonstrated his genuine ability to engage in unscripted verbal exchanges, highlighting the authentic tension between them.

If you watch the first interview we had, the look in his eyes throughout the promo and how much it changed, you realise this is not the same kid that was an arse so many years ago. He was ready that night, I was ready that night and we went back and forth and back and forth, just hitting each other with these lines.

The former world champion emphasized that the exchange wasn’t scripted, adding his decision to ultimately show restraint was professional rather than personal.

And again, this is not something that’s written on a piece of paper like you say this and I’ll say that. This is just two guys going for it, two guys that have got some banter, and two guys that genuinely don’t like each other in a place as hot as Chicago where Punk’s from. Then that one line, once we’d finally go back and forth so much, it was a choice for me to make. Do I go back and then we see where we end up? Or do I bite my tongue and say OK, this round belongs to you. I’ll be a professional. I’ll do it for the company as well as the de facto babyface, even though I’m really the real babyface of the situation. So I let him have it. For the company, not for him.