The Chosen One: 5 Things you didn't know about WWE Champion Drew McIntyre 

Drew McIntyre has risen through the ranks in WWE over the past few months and is the current WWE Champion after defeating Brock Lesnar last month at WrestleMania.

McIntyre was initially released from WWE back in 2014 since the company had underutilized him at that time. He was later re-signed by Triple H and sent to NXT, who made him NXT Champion before he was promoted to the main roster.

McIntyre is one of only a handful of WWE stars who have proved themselves outside of WWE and then been re-signed. Jinder Mahal and Curt Hawkins have also been re-signed to WWE but Hawkins has since been released for a second time, much like Maria Kanellis.

While the WWE Universe has followed McIntyre's career since he was named as The Chosen One by Vince McMahon, there are some facts about the current WWE Champion that many fans may not be aware of.

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#5. He was once married to Taryn Terrell

Taryn Terrell and Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre's personal life went through several changes back in 2009. Not only did he become "The Chosen One" on WWE TV, since Vince McMahon claimed that he was a future WWE Champion live on SmackDown.

While his in-ring career was flourishing, McIntyre got engaged to former WWE star Taryn Terrell, who was known as Tiffany throughout 2009 and 2010. The couple went on to marry the following year before a real-life incident between the two stars forced WWE to suspend Tiffany in 2010 and then release her from her contract.

Just months later, the couple announced that they were filing for divorce less than a year after they walked the aisle.

Both stars have since moved on to new relationships with Terrell announcing the arrival of her first child back in 2014, while McIntyre married Kaitlyn Frohnapfel back in December 2016.

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Drew McIntyre had a fantastic run in NXT ahead of his main roster promotion back in 2018. NXT's current stand out talent is former NXT Women's Champion Rhea Ripley, who had a fantastic run-up to WrestleMania.

#4. The FBI once contacted McIntyre

McIntyre has had a number of interests throughout his life. He had said a number of times that he originally considered a career as a professional footballer, before starting wrestling training when he was 15 years old.

The current WWE Champion also has an interest in conspiracy theories and ghost stories, since he read a magazine called The X Factor when he was just 11 years old. This magazine prompted him to write a letter to the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act, which led to the organization then responding.

“When I was 11, I believe I was at the time, I used to have a subscription to a magazine called X Factor in the UK. It covered a lot of different areas: Conspiracy theories, unsolved crimes, strange insects, you know, ghosts, UFOs– such a variety of weird topics I was into at the time," he told The Wrap.

McIntyre went on to explain that there was a sample letter in the magazine that he filled in and sent off to The FBI, who later sent him all the information that he requested. The star revealed that much of the information was blanked out, but it was pretty interesting.

#3. The Claymore Kick was discovered by accident

Drew McIntyre accidentally invents the Claymore Kick pic.twitter.com/84E2bWWu18

— Maffew (@Maffewgregg) October 2, 2018

The Claymore Kick has been put over as a finisher over the past few months on WWE TV. It was the very finisher that took Brock Lesnar out of The Royal Rumble and was used to beat him at WrestleMania.

While the Claymore Kick now has a countdown and has become one of the most devastating moves on RAW, McIntrye actually discovered the move by accident.

While appearing on WWE Network show 'Table For 3' a few years ago, McIntyre revealed that he was actually going for a Big Boot finisher at the time. This was during his time in 3MB, where he was wearing tight leather trousers that were so tight that he was unable to get his legs his enough and fell over while delivering the move.

It was during a live match on RAW where he looked to deliver the move to Ryback back in 2013. He recalled that this was where the Claymore Kick originated and he's since been able to perfect it.

#2. Drew McIntyre has two cats called Chaz and Hunter

Drew McIntyre is on the road traveling with WWE for around 300 days a year, but when he is able to have some time to himself and travel back home, his wife and his two cats are awaiting him. McIntyre has two cats who are brothers called Chaz and Hunter and they seem to take up a huge place in the Scottish star's life.

As the above image shows, McIntyre lies to show off his two housemates on his Instagram page, Chaz is the all-black cat, while Hunter looks like he could be tortoiseshell.

The current World Champion and his wife Kaitlyn Frohnapfel who is a fitness model, are cat people and McIntyre often refers to his fur babies as Claymore Cats.

He also has a tendency to take his Championship belts home and allow his cats to play with them, which shows that McIntyre's character on-screen is very different from the man he is as soon as he walks back through that curtain.

#1. McIntyre had no idea Vince McMahon was going to call him The Chosen One

It's one of the most memorable moments of his career, but Drew McIntyre recently revealed that he had no idea that Vince McMahon was going to go out and endorse him on SmackDown back in 2009.

While appearing on After The Bell last year, McIntyre revealed that he was stood in Gorilla and had no idea that this was the promo that The Chairman was going to deliver.

“The Chosen One thing started when I was 23 or 24 when Vince [McMahon] endorsed me on television. That’s not something that I knew was going to happen. I was just in Gorilla [Position] and I was aware I had a promo and they told me Vince was gonna say ‘a quick thing’ and I’ll just go out and react. I was like, ‘Okay.'”

“Then he went out there on television and he put me over as a future World Champion as I say he didn’t say when it is over ten years later. When it happens, it could be true when it happens he was right like he always is.”

“Yeah, I didn’t know it was going to happen and it was a huge moment for me that everyone always asks ‘It put a lot of pressure on you, would you change anything?’ I say absolutely not. Everything that’s happened has happened for a reason taking me on this journey I was on and obviously things didn’t work out with the Chosen One thing and then the 3MB thing happened and obviously I got fired.”