Real Reason For Drew McIntyre's Massive Push, War Games/WWE?

Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

? According to a source, the big push of Drew McIntyre on WWE's Smackdown brand was largely inspired by Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Both are said to be huge backers of McIntyre and feel he has the potential to be a wrestler the company can build around in the future. McIntyre has already been compared as an Irish version of Triple H back in 1995 in that they have similar height, physique, hair and around the same ability at this stage in his career. There is also reportedly said to be some resentment towards McIntyre's push on TV among some talent that have been there for around five years who have been told they will be elevated if they bring up their work level. While this could easily be hearsay, one WWE source indicated that as far as things go on the Raw brand that unless you get the personal stamp of approval from Triple H, Shawn Michaels, John Cena or Randy Orton, the feeling is you won't get past a certain level.

? While WWE did issue a survey looking at possibly renaming the company's May Judgment Day PPV to War Games, Riot Control and Multimania, if they go in the direction of War Games it may not be the traditional "War Games" from WCW with the dual cage setup as the theme of the show. We're told the idea of bringing back the War Games PPV theme had been discussed with WWE for years now within creative and it always ends up getting shot down. Based on this new report, WWE creative was told to watch old War Games matches and come up with some new ideas they can tweak or even steal and possibly involve another Raw vs. Smackdown theme as they are doing with Bragging Rights this month. We would like to stress at this point that nothing is official, but discussion is taking place.