As seen during the February 2nd 2026 edition of WWE RAW, CM Punk stated that Royal Rumble winner Roman Reigns could choose Drew McIntyre as his WrestleMania opponent, calling McIntyre \u201cthe easier pick.\u201d On the following episode of SmackDown, McIntyre addressed Punk\u2019s remarks in a promo, claiming he could defeat Reigns now that Reigns no longer has his family by his side.<\/p>\n
While speaking to Busted Open Radio, McIntyre addressed Punk\u2019s promo with Reigns\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSay whatever you want about me. I can protect myself. I look after myself verbally. And to be honest, they weren\u2019t even that bad.<\/p>\n
You know, whatever one person said, I mentioned on SmackDown. The other one was defending me. Punk tried to run his mouth, as usual. Roman pointed out, \u2018Drew, have you crying over the little plastic bracelets four times your size?\u2019<\/p>\n
Roman said he beat Drew years in a row. I get it. But they kind of defended me. That didn\u2019t bother me.<\/p>\n
It was just the stuff about the title and SmackDown and making it feel a little less than \u2014 when they\u2019re such big superstars. Just focus on the title. Focus on each other.<\/p>\n
So I went out and did a Braveheart-like speech on the Friday because I was legitimately upset. As far as I was concerned, that was it \u2014 done. And it seems to be done. Now they\u2019re focused on their stuff, and we\u2019re focused on our stuff.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As seen during the February 2nd 2026 edition of WWE RAW, CM Punk stated that Royal Rumble winner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,4591,75],"class_list":["post-487770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drew-mcintyre","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}