'Celtic people are just built different'
While Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson may be claiming to have made wrestling cool again with his recent blockbuster return at Wrestlemania XL, the truth is that this has been building for a few years now.
The headliner then was larger-than-life Scotsman Drew McIntyre, who was hailed as a more-or-less hometown hero as one of - if not the - biggest wrestling stars to come out of the British Isles. “My goal was to main event Wrestlemania and I've been lucky, I've been able to do that - even won the World Title at WrestleMania a couple of times - but it wasn't even on the radar to go, I can't wait to do that home, in Scotland.”
“Then we fast forward all these years and to look at the representation from so many different countries all across the world is very cool. When you look specifically at the amount of Scottish guys - and maybe more girls than guys - and a mix of guys and girls from Ireland... That is just absolutely wild because we're such small countries.
“I guess sometimes everything happens for a reason, although it was frustrating to me at the time,” he says. “Sometimes it's part of a bigger story and there’s delayed gratification, but I was going crazy with a couple of things that happened - especially in the last Clash.
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