WWE Champion Drew McIntyre reveals Undertaker match was set for WrestleMania

Drew McIntyre is at the top of his game at the moment and he’s still got a big career goal to tick off the list.

The reigning WWE Champion – who captured the title when he beat Brock Lesnar in the main event of WrestleMania 36 after winning the Royal Rumble back in January – is currently the main man in the company, and even a decade ago everyone realised his potential was huge.

However, things didn’t align during his first run with the company, and a planned Mania match with the Phenom didn’t materialise.

Speaking to BT Sport, he said: ‘When I was 24 I was told by Vince McMahon, “You don’t listen to anybody but the Undertaker, he’s going to be your mentor and whenever you’ve got a question you go straight to him”.

‘And the inevitable goal was to have a big match between him and I. Unfortunately I wasn’t ready at the time, things worked out the way they worked out, and I believe it led to, instead of myself and Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and Undertaker, the retirement match.

‘It was obviously a phenomenal match and I could not have delivered on that level at the time.’

The memorable clash between the Dead Man and HBK is highly regarded as one of the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time – so we can’t complain too much.

That said, McIntyre is back in WWE and performing at the absolute best level – and he’s still got his eye on that dream match.

The pair faced off at last year’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view in a tag team match featuring Drew and Taker’s respective partners Shane McMahon and Roman Reigns, but a singles bout is yet to happen.

‘Now, the goal was to make sure we give him the match he deserves. Everybody worked their butt off! You’ve got someone like a Shane, a Roman, an Undertaker in there – no matter what, it’s going to go well,’ McIntyre added.

‘But it went extra well, he was moving around great, he was very happy after the fact. I think I might have dropped into conversation, there’s a certain match I was promised about 10 years ago.

‘I’ve got my list of things that I’ve returned to the WWE to do. Obviously number one was win the championship, which I’ve done.

‘Wrestle The Undertaker – after seeing him at WrestleMania and how good he was – is up there. I know he’s capable of doing it and I want it to happen before he rides off into the sunset.’

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