How AEW Should Debut Drew McIntyre

There's been a lot of conversation about British wrestlers getting the opportunity to work All In, and while it's rooted in reasonable sentiment, it's hotdogging and opportunism more than because it makes creative or commercial sense.

Everybody's got a favourite, but from Will Ospreay to Zack Sabre Jr, even the very best in the world from this side of the Atlantic aren't the main reason Wembley Stadium sold 65,000+ tickets before a match was even announced. The UK audience are starved for All Elite Wrestling, not wrestlers they've already seen before wrestling on an All Elite Wrestling show. The same will be true when the organisation are under pressure to follow it up after the summer spectacle.

Drew Galloway - as a p*ssed off and entitled heel bullying his way onto the card - would thus be perfect for the company's UK post-Wembley return in 2024.

He's considered a WWE Superstar more than a Brit-done-good at this point, so it'd be easy to have him brought in as an atomic bomb none of the roster could have prepared for. With his aforementioned skillset, he'd be a dream to watch mix it up with the likes of Kenny Omega, MJF and especially Hangman Page, and watching him reconnect with old rivals Jon Moxley, CM Punk and Chris Jericho under a new banner has more novelty value than many others that have crossed the divide.

He'd need a fresh babyface to fight and beat, and there'd be few better than Orange Cassidy. Especially if 'Freshly Squeezed' happens to still be the International Champion. A guy screaming the F-Word at the top of his lungs and melodramatically screaming his anger into Cassidy's face is about as far away from the relaxed workhorse legacy the titleholder has already established.

Drew Galloway can tell before he shows, then show anyway when the big night arrives.

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