WWE Champion Drew McIntyre has arguably one of the most devastating finishing manoeuvres in the company. The Claymore Kick usually signifies the end of a match and secures his victory.
McIntyre recently spoke to “Stone Cold’ Steve Austin on the latest episode of Broken Skull Sessions. Various topics of discussions were had during the interview. Among them, Steve Austin asked McIntyre how he devised the Claymore Kick.
The WWE Champion revealed that he came up with the finishing move during his time as a member of 3MB.
“It was brought to me because of 3MB. The greatest thing that 3MB ever gave me was the Claymore. If you remember the beginning of 3MB, we had the super tight leather pants that the office made because I certainly did not have them commissioned.”
McIntyre added how his leather pants in 3MB were instrumental in him coming up with the Claymore Kick. The WWE Champion had to adjust his other leg when he tried to hit a big boot due to the leather pants, which ultimately led to him hitting his current finisher.
“I’m running around in those 80s tight rock and roll pants and I was running to give a boot in the first match that I had in those leather pants, and as I was running, raising my leg for the boot, I realize ‘oh, these things are going to split at the crotch’. I don’t want my crotch to split, so I kicked up the other leg, knocked out my opponent and knocked myself out at the same time. Like, I remember getting up, doing an arm ringer after I did the maneuver, let the arm go, walked across the ring, tagged out and fell to the floor because I’d knocked myself silly. Got to the back and someone pulled me aside and said, ‘If you can do that move without killing yourself you’ve got something cool there.’ And I worked on it, worked on it, and I used it as a part of 3MB as my big maneuver that I would use, but it was created because of those tight leather pants.”
McIntyre successfully defended his title against AJ Styles and The Miz at WWE TLC. We will have to see what is next in store for the WWE Champion.
