Drew McIntyre Thinks John Cena’s Heel Run Was a Wasted Opportunity

Drew McIntyre agrees with the notion that John Cena’s heel turn was a wasted opportunity and lamented that he may not get to face Cena as a result. Cena turned heel at Elimination Chamber, a run that lasted until just before SummerSlam and turned out to be polarizing among fans for its execution. McIntyre spoke with Peter Rosenberg ahead of Wrestlepalooza and agreed with the notion that the heel run wasn’t successful. You can see highlights below, per Fightful):

On if he sees the heel run as a wasted opportunity: “Yeah. Call it selfish all you want. I just know and I talked so much trash during the time because I know what he’s capable of, and it’s so much more and we’re seeing it right now. I don’t think it’s deliberate. I know it wasn’t deliberate… For Cena, a Cena two, three is a lot of people’s nine, 10. But, I just know how good he is, what he’s capable of and I ran my mouth, I talked trash because it was just quite frankly pissing me off watching it because I know how good he is. Now we’re seeing how good he is but what’s pissing me off now is it’s at the finish line and I might not get that opportunity so I need that title. I need to dangle that carrot or something in front of him that’s gonna make him pay attention and go, ‘Alright, maybe I go over here, and I’ll show Drew what’s up.'”

On what he would want out of a match with Cena: “I’ll tear him to shreds and I want him to because I want to be able to prove to the world I can stand on my own two feet with everybody just like I did with (CM) Punk, when he was gonna tear me to shreds on the mic, and absolutely eviscerated him to the point he was begging for his other tricep to get torn so he could get more time off so I would stop shredding him on the microphone…”