8 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 23)

4. McIntyre Needs Direction

This column has been fairly forgiving of the lack of direction Drew McIntyre has had in recent months. He’s been booked strongly in the sense that he’s portrayed as dominant and a top-level heel.

That was on display Monday night, when McIntyre ran over Zack Ryder in short order, then laid out Curt Hawkins, just because. He then cut a short promo mocking his victims, and then told everyone that 2020 belonged to him.

That’s great, but other than being a key addition to Team Raw for Survivor Series (a match they lost, by the way), what has McIntyre really done since returning to action in October? Yes, he’s won most of his matches, but he’s been on the losing end of two big multi-man matches and didn’t win a United States Championship #1 contender’s match, so he hasn’t really accomplished much.

McIntyre needs to have a goal – any goal – and work toward it as a character. A title is typically a good goal. Just saying.