Hello and welcome to this very
special Virtual Roundtable
conversation all made possible
by the power of the internet.
Today we look to celebrate a unique and
history making achievement
in the WWE Universe.
Five Scottish superstars, all from
within 40 mile radius of one another
in a country of just five million
are currently WWE champions,
literally a one in a million chance for
this to happen.
So please welcome this the superstars
who are titled by title,
making WWE that kingdom
are Scottish champions.
First of all, let's welcome the NXT
UK Women's Champion, Kay Lee Ray and
Kay Lee Ray, congratulations for
becoming the longest reigning
UK Women's Champion recently.
>> Thank you, thank you very much.
Nice to see you all, guys.
Hi.
>> Hello.
>> Next up,
next up we have
the NXT UK Tag Team Champions.
Those Dallas boys,
Mark Coffee and Wolfgang.
>> How we doing?
>> Ooh, girls boys on top.
>> [LAUGH]
We all have one half
of the WWE Women's Tag Team
Champions Nikki Cross.
Hello!
Hello!
How is everyone?
>> Hi Nikki.
>> And the newest addition
to this group of champions,
a man who main evented WrestleMania this
year, took out the Beef Brock Lesnar.
>> [INAUDIBLE]
>> And became the first ever Scottish, and
indeed British born
WWE Champion in history.
Welcome Drew McIntyre.
>> Hello everybody.
Good to chat to some people today, some
familiar faces, because I've only been
chatting to the wife recently and my cats
and developed voices and personalities, so
it's nice to talk to some real people and
some mates.
>> So first of all, let me ask.
Was there a point in this
process as we add straws and so
the WrestleMania where this kinda
finished this whether the five of
you all became champions when
Drew finally got the title.
What's your point in the process
leading up to that were you guys like,
hang on a minute.
It really does capture this title.
There's gonna be 5 of us
probably this 23 champions
in WWE 23 superstars in
titled around their waist.
You guys make up over 20% of that from
a quite small nation of Scotland.
So Drew let me direct that to you,
as you're moving towards WrestleMania.
Was there something in the back of
your mind that if you could capture
that championship, the Scotland
would be making WWE their kingdom?
>> Actually, no.
Not until after the match I realized,
just how many Scottish champions we had.
Obviously the night before Nikki
had won the Tag Team Championships.
And I was aware, obviously, I, Wolfgang
and Mark had the tag titles and Kay Lee
had the women's title in NXT in UK, but I
was still focused on the match with Brock.
It wasn't till the next day when
somebody had created a graphic
with all the Scottish champions that I
literally couldn't believe I couldn't
believe I was a WWE champion for one.
But to think back,
to the very beginning when I started,
there was no Scottish
wrestling there was nobody
from Scotland who went from Scotland
to WWE that just wasn't a thing.
And like you say a 5 million people
to a five champions one in a million.
That was a pretty cool fact to find
out the day after WrestleMania.
>> And Nikki,
let me ask you the same thing.
Obviously you captured your
2nd reign as WWE Women's Tag Team Champion
just before Drew.
Was there something you were aware of,
obviously looking at NXE UK and
see the titles on the Scottish
contingent there.
>> For me it was very similar Drew you're
so focused on the match and you're so
focused on WrestleMania.
I think it was when we saw the graphic
after Drew one won his Championship
against Brock, when we it was that graphic
and you see the five of us and I was like,
we're like a boy bonds or gold bonds or
like Stats because I was.
>> [LAUGH]
>> So from here I was like yes we're
a band with [LAUGH]
>> I mean it's a mind blowing achievement.
Let's talk about the history
amongst the five of you.
So, Wolfy, let me ask you this.
What kind of history do
the five of you have?
How far do you go back?
Did you know each other
before joining WWE?
>> Yeah, I think personally, I take it
upon myself to be the site historian.
When it comes to this this guy,
he seemed like.
>> Because I can't remember anything.
>> He come to me.
If I don't remember it,
someone's gonna remember out.
I'll take the time to try and look up but
as part of your last question,
I seen this coming.
I cannot, but
I says to Marcus at some point,
if you and I can hold on to these titles.
And Kay Lee holds on
it as a strong chance,
you're gonna get five Scottish
champions at one time.
And I tried like, you're trying to be
quiet you don't wanna give it away if you
see something you may jinx it.
So just keep a host and
I'd like to apologise because I think
at some point during this conversation,
the five Scottish folk
are just gonna start rambling.
And all the effort that Drew has put in
to make sure that everyone
can understand them.
[LAUGH] Maybe 20 minutes analysts
may be thrown over the window.
>> Guess I'll start getting grief
from everybody in Scotland.
>> [LAUGH]
>> The only place that gives me
grief is my own country.
What happened to your accent, mate?
You talk like Gerard Butler there.
>> Drew, do you remember the silverware?
Don't forget the silverware.
>> Yes, now you're saying it a bit.
I used to get so much crap from Nikki when
I first came to America, because I had to
use a lot of American words or
nobody understands what I'm saying.
I said, just give it time,
you'll be in the same boat soon.
>> What happened.
>> It was a week [INAUDIBLE]
>> [INAUDIBLE] Scottish accent.
[LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> Hey, Kay Lee,
I saw you nodding your head down, was that
something that you were also aware of,
as we're moving towards that
WrestleMania period that Nikki and
Drew captured those titles and
wow, what a honor for Scotland?
>> It was actually
Wolfgang said [INAUDIBLE],
he was the one that came to was like you
better keep a hold of that because and
when one there was another we raised this.
I think Wolfgang was basically this
is gonna happen I was like great
drastic when tomorrow, news no true story
went tomorrow it's gonna happen like
he just he's a historian.
He knew it and he sensed it coming.
So yeah, it was all Wolfgang in this one.
>> Going back to the same question.
Drew and I first met in 2002.
I saw an article and
the newspaper, it was Jake the Snake was
gonna be visiting this wrestling school.
He was over here doing a tour.
And Drew, I think was at that class and
I may be showing up the week after,
but this guy was always meant, like
potentially senior walking into a lot
of post office recreation area.
Let's just get Judo match and a bunch
of guys like me who are just dying for
an opportunity to learn how
to become a WWE superstar.
So Drew was the only one
that kind of looked.
Yeah, he looks like I started he
looks like he could probably be but
that rest of us kinda got some work to do.
So Drew is always pushing forward
is focused 100% I'm gonna become
WWE Champion and not just become
a WWE super star, that's hard enough.
But to actually win the WWE title?
The guy's went and done it.
And he's been saying it since he was 16
years old, and I've always believed him,
and everyone that's met
him has believed him too.
So we'd since together,
we were young we grew up together,
we're done all the things that 18, 19 and
20 year olds do together as friends.
The other guys started
as a latrine in place.
And it was like two places you could
go where we were, and where Kay Lee and
the rest of the guys made up them,
tell them where they can.
Let's bring you in how did you guys meet?
You work with Kay Lee and Nikki?
>> Yeah, there was a trading
place in Len woods near Paisley.
And, I first went there because of Joe.
He went and
he kept telling me what you need to come
to do that you need with us training.
And I was just like, nah, there's no way
like there's no way I could do that and
then eventually told me enter.
And then that's what I met them, Nikki and
Kay Lee, who absolutely terrified
me because they were getting done in the
guys about more than the other guys could.
But yeah, it was from the air we just kind
of Drew was already in WWE at that point.
So I didn't actually meet Drew
until he came back to the like
the independent team.
And then it's just it's crazy to think
that between that sort of 2014 to like
2016 time any show in Scotland, you could
have seen the five of us on the one card.
So, that's a is a cool thought note.
>> The five of us go within the same
radius that Nikki and I actually went to
the same high school and I was in class,
I was in class [INAUDIBLE].
So, it's just crazy that two people from
the same school could eventually make it.
With a one dream,
I suppose making it to the WWE.
So, congratulations Nikki.
>> Congratulations Wolfie it was
funny [INAUDIBLE] skills though.
>> So he's saying is everybody
>> So people,
I'm trying to follow in Drews'
steps in coaching myself.
>> [LAUGH] I didn't realize it was
only 5 million people in Scotland.
So when that statistic came out,
I went and double check, I was like,
wait, I thought Scotland had
like 20 million people in it.
So I pick it up, educate myself on
the population numbers on Scotland.
>> [LAUGH] What skill,
was that [INAUDIBLE]
>> [LAUGH]
>> [INAUDIBLE] I don't wanna get them,
I don't wanna pick them down or
get them create it.
>> It's where you know your people
in Scotland.
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> Twenty million people.
>> [LAUGH] To be fait it's rude.
At like to me, Scotland as a smaller
country and then you move to America
where everything is huge and
big.
>> Yeah.
>> And you find like 20 to 30 Scotland's
can fatten the state of Texas,
so you, okay.
>> Did you see?
>> I guess Scotland that small.
>> Did you see the advert he made running
about the Highlands in his pants,
that place that in populated?
>> [LAUGH]
>> That place was in a populated very
well, there's loads of space.
But there's not a lot of people.
>> There was no people but
it was freaking freezing.
It would was blew me off
the side of the mountain.
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> No, it's fantastic. I love it.
[CROSSTALK]
>> Let's talk about your success as well.
So the obviously out
of the five of you Drew was
the one who went to WWE first and
obviously Drew had his time away
in that time Nikki stepped in.
We will follow each other success but
how wanted to see someone like
Drew go into WWE and then for the rest
of you to see Nikki move in there.
Yeah, several of years later,
we weren't following each other and
supporting each other.
Kay Lee, let me ask out for you.
>> I mean, it's a great thing to see like
you want to see people from different town
[INAUDIBLE] so you got a whole country.
Get with the [INAUDIBLE] didn't have, so
seeing things like that impossible
as a great thing not just for
us, but for any kids or anybody that's
really aspiring to do something.
So, you did keep up to what they
were doing and things like that.
>> So we talk about Drew, obviously as
your stint in there in the northeast, and
you went on to captured
intercontinental title in 2008.
So Wolfgang come back to yourself as
someone who was training and working with
Drew when he went and did that, when
he went and accomplished those things.
How motivating was it for you just see
someone who literally started where
you've started achieving
all these great things.
>> Drew is always actually a trailblazer,
although we had and
from coming from Scotland.
From a small country in Scotland to
people that we had to look up to were
Rodeo Roddy Piper,
who claim to be from Glasgow.
And I asked everyone and
no one did that [INAUDIBLE] and
no one could tell me when he left.
And then a few years later,
well, quite a few years later,
we're here with the head
the Highlanders came in wearing kilts.
It just beating these people up but again,
I couldn't find these guys that were from
Scotland that I could look up to and
and idolize and aspire to be and
then big Drew McIntyre steps up.
But see, to be honest,
even when he was taken and working for
the WWE and was Intercontinental Champion.
It still didn't seem possible that
they would have two Scottish guys and
then Nikki went and I was like,
okay, we've got a Scottish guy and
a Scottish girl all that
then they've got the limit.
>> It always seemed like so far away.
So, when I started watching
WWE when I was ten,
everything always seems so
far away and so, not impossible but
just really,
about forfeits how I'm gonna get going,
Drew [INAUDIBLE] was that,
it made it possible.
And I think that's and it was just
drawn and I think it was grown in
the confidence and getting your name
out there just like we all have done.
And getting out but
I think seems rude to that like just made
you realize you can do it and
you just need to,
just walk your I can't see what's
I'm gonna say just, pretty hard.
>> Obviously starting from where we all
started, it was something you could
relate to it and be like, well he's from
not that far away from where I started.
And a he's running the same circles that
I'm no running in that kinda thing it was
like well,
this is the path which he took to get
there maybe we can do the same thing.
But I do agree with what Wolfie
received when Drew get back to the WWE,
yep, that's the Scottish
guy we can all go home now.
>> Wow and Kay Lee, let me ask you
as well when you've seen someone go
before you from your area,
is that motivating?
>> The guys are, right?
Especially I think from a good sense
like it's, Paige was there and
then they got Nikki.
So you're like, yeah,
they don't need any of us.
The boys are, right and
it's hard not to think that sometimes, but
it's just good to get to a point where
it's like, but actually, I'm wrong.
We're all sitting here just champions
now and it's not just one person.
It's a quarter like those old
FCPS values from is now and
you're all involved, so, yeah great.
>> I think what actually
happened was Drew go there.
And like Nikki says made it appear
possible it was it was attainable.
But you feel as though
you could reach out and
touch that and when Drew win and
Nikki win and Demo win.
It was like all these guys are like
the same as I just like we're rubbing
shoulders with these guys we're
training with them are doing
the same local shows where
from the can be done.
And I think if anything these
guys just blew the doors off
Angie's because not only if you get
the five of us, you'll get your coffee.
And the Gallus scored the Gallus firm.
You get Noam Dar who was
there long before us.
And you get Kenny Williams, Ila Dawn, and.
Lake Scotland is always gonna be able to
say that your first ever British champion
was Drew McIntyre.
When you guys finally signed your contract
and became part of the WWE Universe.
How does it feel?
Did it feel like you finally kinda
made it and what did your families and
friends think?
Mark Let me ask you that.
>> Yeah I was just buzzing.
My family will pray at church for me.
It's one of those things you just kinda,
it kind of, you kind of pat yourself
in the bank alone, but
cuz it's like you have been working there,
I've been a fan of WWE since I was
four ears old or something, so
you just kinda think it's a dream that
will It will never really happen.
So when we actually go there,
it was like wow,
if you cannot validate it for
given up all the weeks.
And the weekends for however many
years like I was about eight years and
before I get Satan, so
if he was sacrificing everything,
any kind of social life or
whatever outside of this.
It feels like that's kind of validated now
because you've achieved it, you've got to
where you wanna be, and now you've
just gotta work even harder [LAUGH].
>> For me, I didn't really believe
it was happening even after I signed
the contract that I kept.
I don't know if it's like the pessimist
in me or I just can't think and
it wasn't real.
And even after I moved to America
it still didn't feel real.
And in I think I don't know.
I just tried to with my friends and
family.
It was a me?
They would say it was very strange cuz
it's hard, cuz you have to turn around and
tell your mom, hi,
I'm just gonna move 4,000 miles away.
And you have to expect her
to be okay with it and
then she's surprised that she worries,
so it was hard to kind of tell my mom.
I was actually kind of too
scared to tell her for a lot for
I don't think I told her
until like two months before.
So I was quite scared to tell her.
She's great.
She's really supportive.
And my sisters are really
supportive as well.
My friends have never like a lot of
my friends hadn't ever really watched
wrestling.
But this came with my last
match fry CW for 2016,
so it was so
they go it's like common see that.
And it's again it still doesn't
you can have to pinch yourself and
even after I moved there was so like,
really surreal and really strange.
So, hey.
>> Kaylee right now, I mentioned earlier
Over 20% of WWE titled around the waist,
have you guys under Scott?
To your mind what is it about this group
about you guys in Scotland have made
the company invest so much in you?
>> Honestly don't know that I see
something in the water up here because
Borgias got to know it's hard
because we're also different.
We're different people
were different wrestlers,
they don't apart from being Scottish.
I don't really think you could pinpoint
something that we've all really
got in common apart from being a wrestler.
So that's a bit of a hard one cuz I
don't really know what else to say.
>> [INAUDIBLE]
>> That's kind of reminds me of a question
I got asked on a bus when we're doing like
the BT meet like the media for BT Sport.
And we're all stuck on like a BT bus like
a double decker mega bus or something.
And I actually got asked like
a really similar question.
And I don't know, I don't want to like
speak for the for the five of us but for
me I like coming from such a small country
which apparently has 20 people in it.
I don't know if it was, it kinda gives you
a chip on the shoulder as well because
for myself coming from
a working class background,
you're kind of, you just you want a like,
get you want a do the best you can.
So I don't know if it gives you a kind
of chip on your shoulder and like
because as a small country, you do have to
like really put your name out there and
travel and all these different places.
So I don't know if the chip on
the shoulder is kind of in it
makes you work really hard.
I don't know, maybe I don't know.
[LAUGH]
>> Scottish thing is this job as an easy
like this is a very difficult
industry to be part of,
you don't just have to be physically tough
you have to be extremely mentally tough.
And people from Scotland we've got
the warrior blood running through us and
we just never give up.
We don't make excuses.
So I think that's a lot to do with.
There's just kinda our upbringing.
We're always taught to
take on the chin and
get a roll with the punches and
don't let things get you down.
And eventually, if you've got that
mentality, you'll always succeed.
>> When you grow up here,
you always grew up, looking over.
One shoulder to make sure you're okay.
I mean, you've got to watch your own back.
So I think that's helped us all
become who we are today and
certainly drives in this
industry in this line of work.
That's very valuable being who we are.
>> This is gotta be the greatest
time ever for Scottish wrestling.
How does it feel to be a part of quite
literally history in the making?
Nikki, let me talk to you about that.
>> It's very cool, and
to Wolfy's point from earlier on, there's
a lot of people that lay the groundwork.
You mentioned Doug Williams, and
then for us, it was Robbie Brooks.
They would come up and
work with us at the school.
And he played a huge part in so
many different things in so
many different aspects of our game.
So for me there was a lot being able
to be a part of history is amazing and
it's the people that pave that forward.
So we just hope that for
present people and
for the future we're laying
the groundwork for the for
the future tour and
it's just to see the journey.
Off Scottish wrestling is amazing,
so for myself, me,
Kay Lee, a couple of other girls,
Sarah, Marie, Taylor, and Carmel Jacob.
So for us for a while that was
the group of girls and those seen,
seen how many girls are cut like Isla Dawn
It's like so many girls have came up.
And it's like so
to see the growth of Scottish
women's wrestling as also amazing.
So it's just it's so
cool to be a part of and
I can't say that enough
without repeating myself.
So Kayla, you can you jump.
Thank you.
[LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH] I mean, you're spot on.
I don't even think I realized that like so
many things get said we all these and
you're like, my god that was it was
just a group of like five ghettos.
>> Yeah.
>> I know there's just an abundance of
talent, not just from the ghetto side but
from the guys as well,
just seems to have grown.
And everybody has a big family but you
want to see people doing well you want to
see people we of course
with GPEE stuff and seeing
these people coming through now and you're
exactly it's so people seem with those or.
Do you know what I mean?
>> Yeah.
>> What are we seeing known who's gonna be
the future in these classes kind of thing.
So I guess it's really cool to not
have just been a part of it but
to also be a part of what's
going to happen next essentially
>> If I'm watching for
from Scotland on The WWE,
one of them is a WWE champion.
The other four are holding
gold at the same time.
That's ascertainable.
And that's something that
folk can aspire to do.
And it's that since you've used the word
inspiration a few times Andy and
I think that's exactly what it is like
you, whether it's you wanna grow up.
And become a professional wrestler and
work for the WWE, or
whether you wanna grow up and go and be a
Hollywood actor, or whatever your passion.
As don't let anyone tell you it can't be
done just because of where you're from.
It doesn't matter what your upbringing is.
You can achieve whatever it is and
if the five of us can represent that,
then that's even more special than
holding the tables in the first place.
>> As we said, this is a golden age for
Scottish wrestling for sure.
And Drew, I want to think about a point
that you've mentioned a few times over
the last couple of weeks?.
Are we the closest now that we've
been since 1992 to having a big major
pay per view in the UK?.
>> That's something I'm
not just visualizing.
It's something I'm actively working and
pushing and
talking about whenever I do UK media.
I'm always trying to
think outside the box.
Tyson Fury seems to one to
get involved in something.
If it takes getting a battle of Britain
going to get as a UK pay per view I
don't care.
Just all that matters is when
the things get back to normal.
I wanna get back home I wanna get
all five of us on an open top
bus from the top of Scotland.
Take it right down through
the UK to the bottom of England.
On a big tour, get the country rallied up.
Tell the world this is where
there should be a pay per view.
Look at SummerSlam,
look how mental the fans were.
We know how passionate UK fans are?
We know we're gonna sell the Wembley
Stadium, Hamden, whatever we have.
We know we're gonna sell out,
it's gonna be a big deal.
I do understand the logistics behind it.
That's not my department, but it's doable.
It's gonna freakin happen.
I'm gonna make sure of them.
>> That's would sell out like that,
and the fans would be so appreciative.
When every time the WWE puts a live event
on here is always the best audience.
The NXT curves are better than
any curves I've seen before.
But let's be honest, if you put eyes and
a Scottish pay per view,
let's see, Hamden just saw
that we're all in the lane.
>> Yes, Wolfie.
>> It doesn't get more special than that.
>> Wolfie, are you gonna be waiting
your Harley and hold your title.
>> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> Over the shoulder, one hand, like this.
Marcus in the.
>> [LAUGH]
>> It's like that dastardly in
that what's this week's.
>> Yeah.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Joey's on the handlebars.
>> [LAUGH].
>> NXT UK has undeniably changed
the landscape of British
professional wrestling.
It's given a platform to so many.
It's built a whole new brand
in the WWE Universe.
So, Kay, let me start with you.
How is NXT UK changed the landscape,
for Scottish records?
>> Excellent, tenable?
No, they kiss on my doorstep like not for
us because we get audited there.
But for other people looking in on this,
it's not something that,
I'd have to move to America and
leave my family, you can literally walk at
doorstep, go at what trainers school, and
there could be someone with
a link to NXT UK, and that's mad.
It's a straight link to WWE,
well, to me anyway it's mad.
Yeah, I don't know how
else to follow up on it.
It's great to be part of it.
>> I'm amazed and so
glad that NXT UK came to be that
was the next step for the UK scene.
And when I came back things
were in the upswing and
I'm sure we would have achieved
the success with or without me.
But to be a part of the huge growth
that we had, was phenomenal and
then like WWE using certain stars on
the NXT show itself was great for
the UK scene because we're able to put
them on posters and draw more fans in, but
it was like what's the next step?
Where do we go from here?
And find them in NXT UK came to be,
this is the next day, this is perfect.
We have a home base here, we have
like all the talent their back home,
so many have a show to work on.
I really don't have to
come to America like that.
NXT UK is amazing by itself and the crowd.
Deserves their own place on the roster.
They're part of the show like more
than any of the crowds over here in
America probably.
And it's phenomenal.
Like when I got signed, realistically
it wasn't easy like it was 2007 and
I was the first like Scottish
guy same from Scotland.
I was literally picked up and
dropped in America and
basically told to figure out life and
it was very difficult.
Like I struggled suddenly I
wasn't with my parents anymore.
There's these things
called bills I had to pay.
>> [LAUGH]
>> There is these funny accents.
They didn't understand me anymore and I
was trying to figure out the cameras etc,
which we'd never worked
with back home in the UK.
And it was very difficult.
I struggled with it for a long time.
And now having that home base,
you don't have to leave home.
You're still with your comfort,
your friends and family,
you get this opportunity on this massive
stage, you get taught all the ins and
outs of the industry.
You don't have to move beyond,
there such a great show itself, but
if you do move beyond,
it's a streamlined process.
You'll be confident and
the fans will be educated who you are.
So it's awesome that we've got to this
stage where the rest of the world is so
connected when it used to seem so
freaking far apart.
>> Nikki you joined the company
just before NXT UK kinda
started to get the world in motion.
What's your take on on
this new brand within WWE?
>> I love it because it gave
a platform to people that like,
again, like the thing was Scotland,
Ireland, Wales and England.
There's so many talented workers.
There's so many talented people and
NXT UK was that platform.
So, I got to see great friends get
opportunity that they had worked for
and I don't like using the word deserve,
because I think you are not.
So it's so good to get to see fans and
people I trained what it
was like when Mark and
Joel got the opportunity and
everyone like it was just amazing.
Because it was the platform that
I think the scene has end and
the scene from about, I mean,
the scene that grew so
much and throughout the years.
And Wolfies, right,
after WWE they felt the hydro,
they felt ECCS they exhibition or
the hydro?
Those also, all over the country and
all over Scotland.
There was a really impressive,
like, clouds being drawn through.
I don't I'm not enough coffee today guys.
So for me it was very satisfying
to be able to see these
people who had an opportunity,
get that platform and
get to perform and beyond the WWE
network every single week and
show the world wide roots world.
So for me it was incredibly satisfying,
so yeah.
[LAUGH]
>> Drew, we know that you and Wolfy,
earlier on in your careers,
you tagged together.
Is there any possibility somewhere down
the line that you may team up with
Gallus at some point?
>> Absolutely, but if Zelina and
the gang terrible name for the group.
I'm sure we'll think of something.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Triple A, maybe that.
People are harassing me every single week,
I may have to enlist
the boys to take them down.
>> To your point.
>> Over here right now, though.
>> [LAUGH] To your point, go back to
Drew had his first match when he was 15.
I had my first match when I was 15,
16, but it was after his, so
this was maybe Drew's third, fourth or
whatever match, but my first match,
and I'm sorry, Mark, but
my tag team partner was Drew.
>> Wow.
>> That's okay.
[LAUGH]
>> We've all got exes, we've all got past.
That's okay.
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
>> Yeah, so there's already a chemistry
there.
I'm sure that
Big Drew would blend in
very well to Gallus.
Although the three of us stand in like
this and then Drew up here somewhere.
>> [LAUGH]
>> It's just head and
shoulders above the rest of us.
>> But that picture we got taken
last year at WrestleMania,
when we were all standing there
in our suits in front of us.
>> [LAUGH] I'll look at [INAUDIBLE]
right before that Mania match,
that was really special.
>> Thanks for
my WrestleMania 35 match with Roman,
was the first ever singles match in Mania.
And obviously,
Roman coming back from illness and
I was gonna trust it in that position
was a big deal to begin with.
But to see everybody from back home,
to grab that picture,
it was a really cool moment.
So I can post that picture.
>> And if I [INAUDIBLE]
>> Use your skills and your editing,
put that picture in right now.
There you go everybody at home,
you're looking at the picture.
>> [LAUGH]
>> The power of editing.
>> You mentioned earlier that before,
up until recently,
you maybe weren't all aware of
what you guys were achieving.
Was anyone that social media post came
out with the five of you that you may be
realized, wow, we've achieved this.
What's the reception
been like from the fans?
From the reception from all the people
who've backed you over the years?
Wolfgang, let me jump back
to you to begin with.
>> So initially, everyone from
Scotland was very, very proud, but
it's all coming out the woodwork now.
Everyone just an outpour of prayed,
I think,
we're maybe the best one today is great.
But it's just what we've
been able to achieve and
our own race and
has not only inspired others.
But it has given them something to
celebrate, especially during this team.
I can just imagine, all the kids and
all the wrestling fans believe
we support this Scottish scene,
but these Scottish Champions.
And if I go back to when I was young this
was never available when the fact that
it's available now,
is just It's incredible and
I can't wait to see where it goes.
>> Scotland is something to be proud of,
we're not good of football,
we're not at rugby, we're not good
at pretty much anything, but when-
>> Andy Murray!
>> He's done, he's out of the door,
he's finished
>> You should please finish there.
So one of best wrestling,
that's all around.
[CROSSTALK] Scotland is
something to be proud of.
>> Does everybody have-
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> Does everybody
have their championship handy?
>> Yeah,
I just walking it wearing it [CROSSTALK]
>> So mine is actually having a lot of
spa day.
She's being pampered right now,
she's being polished, she's been buffed,
she's been shined.
So she's having a lot
of spa day right now.
>> Right, okay.
>> [LAUGH]
>> That one.
>> If you've got them,
let's see them, guys,
let's see the championships
if you've got them.
>> God, [LAUGH]
>> Yeah,
it's been around my waist the whole time.
>> [LAUGH] All day.
>> Wow.
>> Name play.
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> I'll pass this over to you, Nikki.
>> They're so shiny.
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> [LAUGH]
>> That's what you want for picture Nikki.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Yeah
>> She deserves to be pampered,
right, she worked really hard for
the last couple weeks [INAUDIBLE].
>> Yeah, she earned it.
>> Thank you,
you're not two team champion?
>> Yes.
>> So you have a lot of relationship with
your title, you can send it away out and
it's grown up enough now that
it can look after herself.
>> Yeah, and she still, she really loves
manicures, she loves getting a little
pedicure at the end of the strap,
she's doing good, she's doing good.
She doesn't like cold coffee which is
she's not gonna get into this for coffee,
because there's a slippery slope,
actually for a cup of tea and
she likes long walks on the beach.
She likes sunsets and she's just
grew a lot, she's no toddler stage.
She's [CROSSTALK]
>> Whoa wait, what?
[LAUGH]
>> She's
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> [LAUGH]
>> [CROSSTALK] manicures.
>> [LAUGH]
>> The one thing I told you,
he doesn't like drinking coffee.
>> [LAUGH]
>> This conversation get mental
one for it.
>> [LAUGH]
>> But guys, but
right now you are the flag-bearer
of Scottish professional wrestling.
You've all got WWE titles around your
waist, and, of course, the other Scottish
talent within the WWE Universe who is just
waiting to get to where you guys wrap.
Do you think this is just the beginning
of a Scottish revolution?
And what do you think the future holds for
Scots in the WWE?
>> Yeah, I mean, I think we're just
gonna continue the path we're on.
Realistically, I'm just so excited and
proud that Britain as a whole.
And then click on Ireland also, I just
have such a wealth of talent now was back
when Wolfgang, and I were coming
up we were literally self taught.
And like you said if we got a Doug
Williams we got a Robbie Brookside to
learn from.
That was great, but
we were all kind of the same, but
we're all at the same level just trying to
figure things out and when I went away for
seven, eight years to America and
I can't get my finger on the pulse.
But was it getting to watch as
much footage as I'd like and
when I came home and saw the talent,
the in-ring waves and characterwise,
I was absolutely blown away.
It was, wow, we've come a long way and
I'm just happy to see Britain
in general in such a high level.
When I was traveling around, I'm sure
it's still the case, it's the number
one independent thing in the world now and
it works out with every single one.
And to see such a high representation from
Scotland means the world to me personally.
But as long as Britain as a whole keep
succeeding, that's all that matters as
long as they get that bloody pay-per-view,
that's all that matters.
>> I would like to make a point of seeing
not just a pay-per-view at Hamden,
but I also won TakeOver in Glasgow,
so that's what I'm putting out there.
>> Yeah, that's a good idea,
yeah, Triple H-
>> You stay there Drew.
>> I bothered him by message all the time,
I'll say to him in this as well,
can I finally get in a takeover?
What do I have to do?
I've won a WWE title now,
is that good in Glasgow?
Let's have one in Glasgow and
can I finally be on one?
I've only asked 50 times, so
I'm gonna keep bothering
Triple H till he lets me on one.
>> Excuse me.
>> And Glasgow would be perfect.
>> Good, good, we've got another person.
>> Drew, you're the WWE Champion,
you don't need to ask anybody anything.
>> [LAUGH]
>> You get in there and you tell him.
>> [LAUGH]
>> That's right, see here,
Triple H, let me on your show now.
>> It's we can't do it,
so you have to do it.
>> Please.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Well, it feels like if we do get
a UK TakeOver and NXT UK TakeOver in
Scotland, Drew McIntyre is gonna be there.
What advice would you give to any
young Scottish aspiring superstars?
Mark, give me feedback deeper.
>> We as l started there
was no direct path to WWE,
it was just the best thing that was
seemed like a million miles away.
No, there is a direct link, I mean,
you can go to any school or
you can go to a school which
will WWE which has a link
to ACW which has a link to NXT UK which
has a link to NXT to brought us my phone.
There is that path set in front of, so
all you need to do is just follow it,
you know, just don't.
Don't think of it as it's
unattainable as attainable.
We'd all prefer that and we are locally
in this path which everyone can follow.
>> When I was in school,
all I ever wanted to do was BRS left.
And if we had those high school
end of yearbooks, certainly,
someone would have written in Maine
most likely to become WWE wrestler.
And I just think, no, it can't be done.
And if you want to be in this position,
if you wanna, let's say,
you wanna be Drew McIntyre is and
you grew up In the coast of Scotland,
and you wanna become WWE Champion?
First of all,
don't let anyone tell you it can be done,
because the proof is
right in front of you.
That, yeah, we are from Scotland,
we are one in 5 million.
But-
>> One in a million?
Five in five million.
>> One in a million.
>> Twenty million.
>> But whether you're from Scotland,
England, Ireland,
Wales, anywhere in the world, don't think
just because no one else has done it,
that you can't be the first to do it.
And take inspiration from that,
just don't ever, if you wanna
do something, don't ever quit.
Like John Cena says, don't ever quit.
[LAUGH]
>> On the back of that,
I would like to jump right in and
say, the guys are right.
The straight line tips though, it's right
in front of you but best is not easy.
If you want to do this, you need to put
in everything you have in wrestling,
like you touched on that a little bit.
You give up a lot your life to do this but
if you have someone that what you want to
do and that's what you're wanting to do
then get yourself to school and do it.
Because as all the troubles and
the pain and
the injuries and
missing birthdays and weddings,
we are all sitting here now as champions,
basically attaining our dreams.
So yes, it's possible if you want to work
for that and really, really try for less.
>> Everything is really a case of you
have to believe it more than anybody and
you are gonna get told, and
that's an American thing.
It's unrealistic, just cuz a few people
did it, because now we have a few people
that have done it,
why are you gonna be the one to do it?
And just nod and play along but in your
free time, work as hard as you possibly
can, I'd say sticking at school,
see it all the way through.
It's good to have that fallback plan.
It looks good in the resume.
I did finish university.
When all that free time you have on
the site, it's just tunnel vision.
It's getting in the gym.
It's getting to
the wrestling skills of WWE.
It's studying the tapes.
It's doing whatever you possibly can.
And more importantly,
it's just believing in yourself,
and it's being accountable to the person
in the mirror and nobody else.
You don't answer to anybody but
that person in the mirror.
And if you can look at yourself and
you can say, I'm giving it my all in
every single area to better myself,
to achieve my dream, you won't fail.
I assure you.
Yeah, pretty much, I'm not gonna
talk what Drew just said, and
I'm not gonna talk anything Kay Lee said.
>> Just say what Cena said, don't quit.
>> Never give up.
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> I think that Drew made some really good
points there.
And your time when you're
not wrestling training,
be studying tips, have sleep,
carry on at school.
Work on your promos,
your character walk, make perform work.
That's one of the most important
things for me personally.
Just always be working on getting up.
What happens when that
microphone's in front of you,
because that's gonna really
count towards a lot.
So yeah [CROSSTALK]-
>> That must be one for
Scottish people specifically.
No, no, you're right.
But being Scottish, we have the hardest
accent in the world to understand.
And that is very, very important that you
have to be understood by the entire world.
And as much as you're
going to get grief for it,
just work on, turn it on and
off, if you can.
Because you can see clips of me doing a
news report for Scottish television when I
first got signed, and I watch it today and
I barely understand myself.
I mumble [CROSSTALK].
Yeah, I talk quietly and
I mumble in real life.
So I really had to work on
it to get myself understood.
But that is a big part of our business
is communication, so very good point.
>> Kay Lee, Mark, Wolfgang, Nikki,
Drew, thank you so much for
spending this time with us today.
And no doubt, the WWE Universe
is excited to continue following
the Scottish superstar contingent as
they continue to make WWE their kingdom
