A major WWE match announced for SummerSlam 2025 is in serious jeopardy after a top superstar wasn’t allowed to travel back to the United States.
On the first night of the August 2 and 3 double header, Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul are set to face Randy Orton and Grammy Award-winning singer Jelly Roll in a tag team match.
McIntyre, known as the Scottish Warrior, has been back in the UK for a friend’s wedding in England over the weekend, but he’s now claimed he was stopped from boarding his flight back to the US where he has lived for a number of years.
‘There’s now a good chance I don’t make #SummerSlam,’ he captioned a video on X as he talking into his phone camera from a field.
‘It’s quite a week I’ve had. You wanna know how it’s been capped off? i can’t get back into America, They wouldn’t let me board my flight,’ he said in the video.
‘I’m in England still, at my buddy’s wedding – what a wedding it was. Planning to go back, train for SummerSlam, but no, no, no, no, I got blocked.
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‘Wife and I walked up to the gate, trying to check in, always goes perfectly fine. Not this time.’
McIntyre noted that there was an issue with his documentation, despite never having a problem any of the other times he’s been travelling.
He continued: ‘”Drew, you don’t have your US passport. I know who you are. I know you’ve lived there for a long time, I know you’re showing me pictures of your US passport, and your global entry.
‘”I know exactly who you are, your property and the likes. But no, we can’t let you in the country buddy.
‘So my wife and I panic, we say we’ve got a sick animal at home, we’re good people, we care about our animals, we care about people.
In the end, his wife travelled back alone ‘against her will’ to see their pet cat, while McIntyre had to turn around and leave the airport.
Ever the professional, the former world champion used the real life incident to continue his on-screen feud with Jelly Roll.
‘Here I am. So what happened, what changed this trip? Jelly Roll. You know somebody, got some connections? You’ve got your 15 minutes of fame right now, can get away with some stuff? You’re hot, soon you will not be, so you’re getting it in when you can,’ he quipped.
”You realised when I took off my shirt on SmackDown, you went , “Oh my God! All that aura, I’m screwed!” So you screw up my training for SummerSlam week.
‘Why am I in a field? I don’t know what I’m in a field but I can tell you one thing! When this is all over, I’m gonna get back, and I’m gonna drop you Jelly Roll.
‘I’m gonna make you pay. And eventually, you’re gonna gain all that weight back and you’re gonna look like one of these f***ers.’
It remains to be seen whether McIntyre will make it back by the the weekend, or if a replacement will need to be found for the match.
Watch WWE SummerSlam on Netflix live on August 2 and 3.
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