WWE Rumor Roundup - Triple H's plan for Brock Lesnar rejected, Roman Reigns' future, 2 Superstars leaving - 31st January 2020

#1 The original plan for Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre is on top of the world right now as he prepares for a main event showdown against Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 36.

The plan originally, however, was to push McIntyre much earlier. Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue had revealed back in 2019 that McIntyre was planned to win the King of the Ring tournament and get a world title push. The plan was nixed after the Scottish Psychopath suffered an illness before the tournament.

The WWE thankfully went back to the initial creative plan and are now all behind McIntyre.

On Sportskeeda's Dropkick DiSKussions, Tom spoke about his earlier report and also opened up about the decision to push McIntyre against Lesnar:

"It was clearly a last-minute decision and it’s something Paul Heyman has been pushing for a long time. He believes in Drew McIntyre. We’ve seen the changes been made, we’ve seen that they want to market Drew to particularly the UK crowd, BT Sport move is definitely is something that worked out, and I also reported at the time of the King of the Ring tournament that a big push and match was coming Drew McIntyre’s way but it wasn’t there because of an injury he had at that time or illness.

"I think it was a sickness of some sort. So they have come back around, the opportunity is still there and they have taken it. I’m very pleasantly surprised and I’m looking forward to what comes next."