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3. Rollins Puts McIntyre Into Perspective

As great as Drew McIntyre’s explanation of his frustration and laying out how desperate he really is for vindication at Crown Jewel, Seth Rollins succinctly buried any virtuous notions Monday night.

Rollins called out McIntyre’s sob story from the pandemic by very rightly noting that Drew complaining about winning the world title at a crowd-less WrestleMania paled in comparison to people who lost their jobs and couldn’t put food on the table, or those who were separated from loved ones, or especially people who lost friends and family to the virus.

In that one comment, Rollins successfully wiped away McIntyre’s entire veneer of virtue. He would go a step further when discussing the Bloodline, observing that Sami Zayn and Cody Rhodes aren’t still going around months later kvetching about how the family cost them title matches against Roman Reigns. They picked themselves up and persevered.

This was simply a very effective job at poking large holes in McIntyre’s tale and planting even more seeds of doubt in him as a hero. Nicely done.