10 Worst First Days For WWE Champions
7. Drew McIntyre
WrestleMania 36, all things considered, was quite the creative success story.
The ethics of it could be debated for days and the standard of expectation was set way, way too high for the wrestlers within that wretched Performance Center atmosphere as a result, but WWE actually served its consumers a night of escapist entertainment in the dark days of April 2020. A fleeting moment of something to savour.
Unless you were Drew McIntyre.
Forever immortalised as WWE's newest made man during an unfathomable time, the coronation was the hollowest of any in WrestleMania history, and the disappointed new titleholder had to defend the belt straight after! Due to the company's need to film everything before a brief Florida shutdown, The Big Show was drafted in for a title match that could air on Raw the night after. McIntyre looked every bit of a guy making the best of a bad situation, but "best" had never been so tempered and "bad situation" had never been such an understatement.
It was a clunky, pandemic-y start to life on top for 'The Scottish Warrior', though it would at least become a crucial part of his character's lore in the years that followed.