WWE: Drew McIntyre Should Join Forces With Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode
By Mark Justice
Drew McIntyre should turn heel on WWE Raw soon.
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre’s face run has been decent thus far but it will eventually run its course. Since he is currently in a championship feud with Dolph Ziggler, the following will pontificate why he should soon turn heel and form a faction with the already established tag team of Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode to keep his WWE Championship reign interesting.
Drew McIntyre is no stranger to heel factions. He was an integral part of 3MB alongside Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal in 2012-2013. Although this faction was used as enhancement talent, it truly emphasized McIntyre’s air guitar skills and other musical talents. This was a moment in his career when his stock and momentum had already dropped to the point that he needed repackaging or a break from WWE as soon as possible.
McIntyre was also part of two factions in 2018-2019 that were simply put together to feud with The Shield. The first of these two factions was called ‘Dogs of War,’ in which he teamed up with Dolph Ziggler and Braun Strowman; the second faction did not have a special name but he joined forces with King Corbin and Bobby Lashley to battle The Shield when Dean Ambrose was planning on leaving the WWE and making his way to AEW as Jon Moxley.
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In late 2019, McIntyre was the muscle for Shane McMahon’s corporate faction, which also consisted of Elias and The Revival.
This faction was elicited from Shane McMahon’s ‘Best in the World’ trophy victory in Saudi Arabia, and the factions’ goals involved taking away TV time from more worthy competitors in the locker room while making The Miz and Kevin Owens’ careers more miserable than CM Punk’s in 2014.
Now that Drew McIntyre is the top babyface champion in 2020, it might be a stretch to foresee him forming a heel faction.
However, the best WWE Champions, such as CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, did not remain babyface (or heel) throughout their entire reign because it added shock value and caught attention when they flipped the switch and showed the WWE Universe a different side to them as champion.
Remember when CM Punk transitioned from being the top rebellious antihero babyface to becoming the top heel in the company after turning his back on The Rock on Raw 1000? Remember when Daniel Bryan ended the ‘Yes’ Movement and created the ‘No’ Movement in 2012 and the Environmentalist Movement in 2019? McIntyre can do something similar to what Punk and Bryan did but better.
Since Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler have recently been traded to Raw and McIntyre is currently in a championship feud with Dolph Ziggler, he can lead a heel faction with the already established tag team of Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode. There does not even need to be an elaborate explanation for why these three superstars would team up because McIntyre had a memorable history with Dolph Ziggler on Raw and a memorable history with Robert Roode on NXT.
Indeed, McIntyre won his first NXT Championship by defeating Roode, and he won his first Raw Tag Team Championships alongside Dolph Ziggler. Overall, WWE needs to continue building its shows on factions. It has been doing that quite well with Seth Rollins’ discipleship, Zelina Vega’s faction, and MVP’s franchise. It needs to do the same with its WWE Champion before he gets overshadowed by the other superstars in the locker room and later lost in the shuffle.
As our Kevin Parvizi vehemently expressed, the upcoming WWE Championship match between McIntyre and Ziggler at WWE Extreme Rules 2020 does not feel like a big enough deal for the WWE Championship since Ziggler did not earn the title shot and since McIntyre went from battling two of the most dominant stars on Raw in Seth Rollins and Bobby Lashley to battling a superstar who has a track record of losing almost every singles match he is booked in.
As WWE Champion, McIntyre is supposed to be the most important superstar on Raw, but he is certainly not being booked like one. If the WWE Champion is supposed to be the top superstar on Raw, he needs to be the reason people tune in to Monday Night Raw. His reign needs to continue gauging the interest of the audience and gaining credibility and popularity, which it is clearly not doing with Ziggler as his opponent at WWE Extreme Rules 2020.
However, if the WWE can turn this storyline around into McIntyre and Ziggler joining forces alongside Roode, whom Ziggler mentioned would be on Raw soon, it would be setting McIntyre’s reign in the right direction while also establishing Roode and Ziggler as top contenders for the Raw Tag Team Championships, for which they never got a rematch. That would kill two birds with one stone since the infinitesimal Raw Tag Team Division needs some resurgence too.
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With McIntyre as the leader, the Showoff as the veteran, and the Glorious One as the sidekick, such a faction would gauge the interest of the WWE Universe and make McIntyre the most important component of the flagship show as well as a more credible WWE Champion. If not, fully expect Brock Lesnar to return to WWE SummerSlam 2020 to win the WWE Championship back when the WWE takes no risks with McIntyre’s title reign, and it goes stale as a result.