5 Takeaways from WWE Backstage (April 7th, 2020)

#4 How'd you do it, Champ?

The new WWE Champ

The WWE Championship match between Drew McIntyre and Brock Lesnar had one of the best builds on the Road To WrestleMania 36. With McIntyre finally winning the big one, things changed greatly for the RAW main-event scene. The Scottish Psychopath revealed that "my face conveyed it all" after winning the title because emotionally, "a bunch of people would be screaming" after the monumental win.

The win meant more than usual this year and McIntyre looked into the camera to thank fans. Of the moment he said "I know we're not supposed to look into the camera but I couldn't help myself. Thank you to everyone who chose WWE on Saturday and Sunday night to help them forget about things."

McIntyre's title win also made him the first-ever Champion to hail from the United Kingdom. He claimed "it was a goal I had when I came to the U.S." and "things started off well, but I ended up fired."

Since he was originally pegged as "The Chosen One" during his first WWE run, the new Champ thinks things would have been worse had he won the title 10 years ago. He said "if I won it back then - I'm just going to be completely honest - it would have bombed. It would have sucked. I would've sucked. If it would have worked out like a few other guys who got the opportunity - that were the same level as me - and it wasn't a great reign."

Things finally worked out because he felt that he "needed to go on this journey; I think it prepared me." The journey was important because it molded him "not only into the wrestler I am today, but the man I am today and there's nothing that you can throw my way that I'm not ready for."

McIntyre went on to say that "19 years of ups and downs have prepared me for any situation and that includes what's going on in the world right now. I'm so proud to be Champion when we're going through difficult times - not as a company, as a world - and I want to keep everybody entertained and be the flag-bearer of RAW going forward."

The Scottish Psychopath also has the distinction of being the first star to win the WWE title amid the global pandemic. He claimed that due to "very strict health guidelines, I had the locker room to myself." McIntyre kept things upbeat saying that "as long as we can keep pushing forward and bringing original content, I want to keep doing it (performing) and I want to keep leading the ship."