Roman Reigns retained the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship over Drew McIntyre in the main event of the Clash at the Castle 2022 event, which surprised both fans and McIntyre.
The show had been built around McIntyre, with most fans expecting him to go over it, especially since it was reported ahead of time that WWE was considering taking at least one of Roman’s titles away from him. However, that did not happen because WWE stuck to its long-term plan of crowning Reigns as champion rather than going for the big pop McIntyre would have received from the crowd. McIntyre and Tyson Fury performed a song after the match that was not intended to be broadcast.
While speaking with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, McIntyre admitted that it was a difficult night for him and described singing with Fury as the most embarrassing moment of his career.
“You look at certain moments, and in the moment when you’re living them, you’re like, ‘This is ridiculous. We should have found a way out of this. [Austin] Theory could have cashed in, and I could have pinned him,’ because we had to protect The Bloodline and Roman at that time. So it’s the top story in the company, the top character. And perhaps at that time, I was like, ‘Just feel this is a bad move.’ The thing with Tyson Fury. That was stupid. There’s no excuse for that. That’s the worst moment in my entire career. We did the bit, the song, and then I told him, ‘Hey, you want to sing Sweet Caroline,’ because British fans one, they’re upset. I just lost. Two, they don’t know American Pie. He was like, ‘Nah, I’m not gonna fight here.’…….And I figured we’re off the air. That’s what I started doing Oasis bit and singing…..just got the crowd going. And I was like, ‘Ah, this sucks, but we’re off the air.’ Then I found out we were still on the air, and it was a whole thing.”
You can can watch the complete interview below:
