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#2 Drew McIntyre's role in Heath Slater's return to WWE

Despite being released by WWE earlier this year, Heath Slater made a surprising return to RAW this week. The former 3MB member challenged his friend and ex-3MB partner Drew McIntyre to a match for the WWE Championship.

Before the match, Slater complained that McIntyre has not been a good friend to him and hasn't offered to help after Slater was fired by WWE. As per Tom Colohue, this is the opposite of what actually happened as McIntyre has tried his best to get Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal over.

Drew McIntyre, as soon as he won the Championship and even beforehand, wanted to try and get feuds going with Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal, and I've reported that with Jinder Mahal right here on this channel and this podcast. While it's not technically a favour to Drew, as in they are not really trying to help him along and he's just really trying to work with the friends and help their careers, this is one where he is able to support them. It's in a way they are able to keep storylines going because quite often, Champions do get to choose their challengers until they get to the big matches when the championships could change hands.

While Heath Slater may not have returned permanently to WWE, he did get to share a moment with his best friend Drew McIntyre.