WWE Planned Tyson Fury Vs Drew McIntyre To Headline Major UK PPV

Plans were afoot for McIntyre vs. Fury for WWE title in huge UK show.

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Before the ongoing global situation threw the world into chaos, there were tentative plans to have a huge WWE match take place on UK shores.

In a new report from Inside the Ropes, WWE Champion Drew McIntyre was to defend his title against the current WBC Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury. Not just that, but McIntyre and Fury would have done battle in the main event of a UK-held WWE PPV.

Fury made his in-ring wrestling debut at last October's Crown Jewel event, where he defeated Braun Strowman by countout.

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WWE is said to have run the idea past the pair earlier this year, with both the Scottish Psychopath and the Gypsy King keen to face each other in the squared circle. This ties in nicely, of course, with the social media back-and-forth between McIntyre and Fury shortly after WrestleMania 36 – although obviously the brakes were put on this attention-grabbing contest once so many restrictions and rules were put in place to try and combat what’s going on in the world right now.

Up until the past few weeks, the UK government had hoped to have fans in attendance for British sporting events by October. Obviously, that has not happened in any major fashion.

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One would have to think that if WWE was so keen on McIntyre vs. Fury earlier this year, then Vince McMahon's sports entertainment juggernaut is likely to return to that idea at some point in the future as and when the world gets back to some sense of even semi-normalcy.

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