{"id":198583,"date":"2026-10-20T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=198583"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:04:39","slug":"drew-mcintyre-looks-back-on-the-i-prayed-for-this-line-being-in-the-best-shape-of-his-life-says-hes-following-in-the-footsteps-of-michael-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2026\/10\/20\/drew-mcintyre-looks-back-on-the-i-prayed-for-this-line-being-in-the-best-shape-of-his-life-says-hes-following-in-the-footsteps-of-michael-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew McIntyre looks back on the &#8220;I prayed for this&#8221; line, being in the best shape of his life, says he&#8217;s following in the footsteps of Michael Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-3219618533\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Advertisements\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b>Insight With Chris Van Vliet with guest Drew McIntyre<br \/>\nHost: Chris Van Vliet<br \/>\nPodcast available via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.chrisvanvliet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcasts.Apple.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1kC9aFW7T3I?si=Ap1f7CYibvnlLYTT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>I feel like you&#8217;ve gotten bigger since the last time I saw you!<\/b> &#8220;I have gotten bigger since the last time you saw me. I believe I was around 275 prior to Mania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>How could you get bigger?<\/b> &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t intentional. I&#8217;ve been doing all the right things. I was in Barcelona for a few months. I came back and really dialed in the diet. I upped my cardio. I discovered the assault bike, which is the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world. But that cardio was through the roof, and I figured, okay, I&#8217;m probably going to lean up, but that&#8217;s fine. You get leaner, you generally look bigger on camera, and I somehow gained 10 pounds of muscle. I&#8217;m 285. I&#8217;m the only man in the wrestling world where they under-exaggerate. There&#8217;s so many times when I would say to the ring announcer, &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m not 255, I&#8217;m 265. Can you use my real weight?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>So, are you doing all this because you&#8217;re getting ready to return to WWE?<\/b> &#8220;No, I just like to look good. Obviously, I&#8217;m in the best shape of my life. I feel physically great. I&#8217;m sure you saw the clip that was out there when I was running the ropes. I was just rolling around the ring at Miro&#8217;s school, Rusev; you&#8217;re very welcome. It&#8217;s here in Nashville, and my buddy was like, I&#8217;ve never seen anybody hit the ropes so fast because he&#8217;s not seen Bron Breaker, the only other man that&#8217;s faster than me. He got a little clip, a 15-second clip, and it blew up online. I think over 8 million views, so people seem to be excited about the idea that I&#8217;m coming back to wrestling, but I&#8217;m just seeing what happens right now. I&#8217;m enjoying myself. Hollywood Drew is jumping from project to project, and when the time is right, WWE is home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Agent of Shadows<\/i> is about to come out. It&#8217;s you and a ton of other WWE superstars in this, but it feels like all the marketing seems to be around you. You&#8217;re one of the main characters.<\/b> &#8220;I&#8217;m the right-hand man of Adam, the lead character, our James Bond type. I am the Q to his Bond. I&#8217;m the tech guy, and if called upon, I&#8217;m going to kick some butt too, and obviously, the sex appeal. But yeah, we got a lot of the superstars in there. Everybody did a great job, not just the action sequences, which is a given, being WWE superstars, but from the acting-wise, I thought everyone did a great job. It&#8217;s fun. It&#8217;s a really fun watch, and hopefully everyone goes into it with that idea. Hey, I&#8217;m about to have a little fun watch, and might be surprised about the romantic elements, the comedic elements, and at the center there is heart, and it is a very fun watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>When you look at the poster, it is filled with stars! Joe Hendry, Jacob Fatu, Booker T\u2026<\/b> &#8220;How on Earth could you leave out Michael Hayes? Nobody&#8217;s more excited about anybody being in that movie. Backstage, a curtain sell-out. Everyone&#8217;s very excited to see Michael in action. He killed it. He&#8217;s exactly what was needed for that role. I&#8217;m kind of following in his footsteps in a way. He was a wrestler, and I became a wrestler. Then he was in <i>Highlander<\/i>, and then he&#8217;s going into <i>Agent of Shadows<\/i>. So in a way, I&#8217;m following in Michael&#8217;s footsteps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>At what point did you realize &#8220;I prayed for this, and it happened&#8221; had become the meme that it is?<\/b> &#8220;I knew talking to Triple H during the day that this is going to be so good. I had an idea, and it was too much. It would have offended a lot of people, which I&#8217;m very good at. He helped me reel it back, and then Hunter himself came out with the line, which I ended up using because I had such an extreme version, and he dialed it back, and the way he said it and the cadence of how it&#8217;s to be said. He said it like that, and I got so excited. He&#8217;s obviously a savant when it comes to this business. Sometimes, though, he comes out with [things]; I went, how do you think of that? But it was like, that is genius, and oh my God, that is going to be so good. I know as a fan, I would lose my mind. Didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be seeing it to this day for everything, no matter what. It&#8217;s sports, it&#8217;s outside of wrestling, it&#8217;s constantly me pointing, \u2018I prayed for this, and it happened.&#8217; But I knew in that moment when Hunter delivered the line back to me by toning me down a little bit. I went, wow, that is genius. Because I&#8217;m going to use that exact tone. The promo itself, I was being sympathetic, I believe, because [CM] Punk had got injured, and I understand what it&#8217;s like to have things taken away from me, and I&#8217;ve been injured before, and I&#8217;ve lost in my life in the ring and out of the ring, and I can get real personal. But I hate that son of a bitch, and I&#8217;m going to say it in the exact same tone all the way through till people go, wait, what? His face goes, what? And I drop his ass. So yeah, that&#8217;s cool. 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