-- Following Saturday's WWE Royal Rumble, a report emerged that Drew McIntyre stormed out of the arena after being eliminated, not bothering to hang around for the show to finish. Further details indicated that McIntyre was upset at an unnamed wrestler for trying to get his moves in, while hurting other stories that were supposed to be told in the match.
-- PWInsiderelite.com reports that the backstage feeling is that McIntyre was mad at LA Knight while speculating that it might have been due to Knight getting in the way when Damian Priest was eliminating McIntyre, which "killed the drama and momentum of the spot" as it was supposed to push forward an angle between the two.
-- While confirming that McIntyre was indeed angry and "stormed through the Gorilla position" and that LA Knight was the target of his rage, fighfulselect.com has an alternate version suggesting that the original plan had Priest eliminating McIntyre before Logan Paul's entrance. An assumption would be that Knight's actions before the elimination delayed the Priest-McIntyre spot and Drew's elimination ended up being just another elimination when the intention was for it to kickstart a storyline heading into WrestleMania.
-- The fightful report added that a number of talent who reached out privately to chime in about the incident agreed with McIntyre while confirming that he was frustrated with Knight. WWE held a post-Rumble party which McIntyre bailed on after everything that transpired.
