WWE’s Drew McIntyre on Why He Finishes With the Claymore Kick Over the Inverted Alabama Slam

Drew McIntyre is a pretty effective WWE heel (the professional wrestling term for a bad guy). How effective? I’m a 38-year-old man and had more than a few butterflies for our “SummerSlam”-timed interview. McIntyre told us the children of his WWE colleagues are also pretty frightened of him, which was probably not a compliment to my admitted nerves. Fortunately, this writer was safely locked in his Beverly Hills hotel room, long outside of Claymore Kick range — even for an athletic giant like “Raw” Superstar McIntyre. With enough courage mustered up to talk wrestling and more with the “Scottish Psychopath,” I asked McIntyre (real name Andrew McLean Galloway IV) why someone as big and powerful as he prefers a flying kick as a finishing maneuver over his devastating Inverted Alabama Slam. McIntyre told us he likes the Claymore Kick as a finisher “more” because with the Inverted Alabama Slam, “I’ve got to wear my opponent down enough where it calls for it.” Also Read: Vince McMahon: WWE Content Will Stay 'PG,' Won't Revert to the Attitude Era's 'Gory Crap' Alternatively, with the Claymore, “It’s a case where I can do it to everyone. I know I can do it to...