Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Andrew McLean Galloway IV (born 6 June 1985) is a Scottish professional wrestler currently signed to WWE . he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Drew McIntyre, and is his mother, angela, died on 3 November 2012 at the age of 51 . he considered being a professional football player when he was younger . after returning to the main roster in 2018, he won the Raw Tag Team he began training for a professional wrestling career at the age of 15 . he earned a master’s degree in criminology from Glasgow caledonian university . in 2003 he made his debut for the inaugural he honed his wrestling skills further, training under Colin McKay and Spinner McKenzie . he also developed the character of “Thee” Drew Galloway, a cocky n Galloway earned a non-title win over Knight the following February in 2004 at Night of the Fan . Knight exacted revenge by knocking galloway out of the King of BCW tournament . in 2005 he Galloway holds the title through most of 2007 . he wrestled dates across the republic of Ireland with IWW . with Charles Boddington still in his corner, he competed in three contests . after losing to “SOS” Sheamus O’Shaunessy he found a similar fate against Mad Man Manson . galloway recruited wrestlers in a series of tag team and handicap tag team matches Galloway picked up his first victory in October against Sean South in a warm-up for IWW’s main event tag team match . his rivalry with manson settled in their brutal and bloody Street Fight the rivalry quickly took on a patriotic flavour, with Galloway’s blue colours of Scotland clashing O’Shaunessy’s green colours of Ireland . the two met again at Verona Football Club once Galloway retains the IWW International Heavyweight Championship in a singles match . in 2006, he beat the reigning Irishman and won the belt against Go Shiozaki . he relinquished Galloway lost to Aviv Maayan in his first showing in 2005 . by the time he returned in 2005 his reputation made him notorious enough to compete in their main event Five Way Elimination match to determine the best of Galloway defeated allan Grogan to become the first PBW Heavyweight Champion . in October he was entered into a contendership match to win another chance at the title . but he lost to Dave Moralez Galloway defeated Darkside in a triple threat match to become the first ever ICW Heavyweight Champion . galloway held the title for 280 days, retaining over Wolfgang and Allan Grogan, before losing the title Drew McIntyre made his final appearance for the company until 2014 . at the beginning of 2008, he was separated from Dave Taylor and moved to the Raw brand . he made his official debut on 6 January episode of in April, they took on the Puerto Rican Nightmares who won the match and a title shot at the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship . they lost the championship on 17 July to Joe Hennig and Gabe Tu on 16 august, the Empire imploded when McIntyre faced Sanders in a singles match . their rematch at the end of september ended in time limit draw . on 7 October, McIn feud ends abruptly when Hennig vacated the title after an injury . McIntyre regularly defended the title until 11 June, when Tyler Reks won the title . both failed to win back the McIntyre received a singles opportunity the next day with the same result . Truth continued to attack him over the following weeks, claiming to be on the show to wrestle not to party like R-Truth . McIntyre defeats R-Truth in first proper match since return at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view (PPV) the episode before the PPV the entire team, captains aside, was McIntyre retained the title against Morrison and Kane using underhanded tactics . his undefeated record ended in a Money in the Bank qualifying match against Kane on 26 February episode of SmackDown a vengeful Matt Hardy attacked McIntyre, leading to Kingston winning the championship . on 21 June episode of Raw, the Nexus faction attacked McMahon which removed him from television . after losing to Matt Hardy on 25 June episode of SmackDown, Long informs McIntyre that his work visa had expired . long informs him that he would be deported back to Scotland immediately . McIntyre and Rhodes then successfully defended their championship twice against The Hart Dynasty . at the Bragging Rights PPV on 24 October, they lost the championship to The Nexus and dissolved their team McIntyre would participate in the 40 man royal rumble match on 30 January . he would be eliminated by Big Show . in early 2011, he was part of a brief storyline with Kelly Kelly . Drew McIntyre was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2011 supplemental draft . he featured very rarely on Raw and was confined to dark matches and Superstars . on 15 December episode of Super McIntyre was reinstated by guest general manager John Laurinaitis . he was subsequently included on the team in the 12-man Tag Team match at wrestlemania xxvIII McIntyre lost most matches and was confined to Superstars and house shows . he was able to make several appearances on Raw and SmackDown . but most of them were squash matches against the McIntyre managed Slater and Mahal in tag matches . 3MB defeated the teams of The Usos and Brodus Clay . the next night on Raw 3MB were defeated by The Miz and Alberto on 31 December episode of Raw, McIntyre and Slater challenged Team Hell No . they also competed in the first round of the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament . but they were defeated by Adrian Neville on 29 April episode of Raw, 3MB attacked The Shield, before attacking 3MB themselves . 3MB adopted new ring names against their opponents . at 2013’s wrestlemania xxx, McIn on 12 June 2014, WWE announced that McIntyre was released from his WWE contract . on 2 November at ICW’s “Fear & Loathing VII” event at The Barrowlands, Galloway Galloway defends his ICW title against Matt Hardy in a match in new york . on 25 January 2015, he defeated rival Chris Renfrew to retain the belt . he made his first defence in Galloway defeats Grado to retain the world championship on 11 April . the following night he suffered his first loss in ICW since his return . on 18 April he defeated both Jack Jester and Grado in Galloway retains the ICW World Heavyweight Championship . he defeated Mikey Whiplash in the main event of “flawless victory” on 2 may . on 18 July he made his 15th successful title Galloway made successful title defences of the ICW title against Rampage Brown, Doug Williams, Matt Daly and Coach Trip . he also made non-title victories over Rockstar Spud, Marty Scur Galloway returns to winning ways in main-event of “ICW Friday Night Fight Club” he scored a singles victory over Grado in a rematch from Fear & Loathing VIII . Galloway defeated by team Dallas in eight man Elimination Tag Match for 100% ownership of ICW . Gallaway defeated Anthony Nese to retain the title . his first loss in Evolve came at DGUSA Open Galloway renamed his title the “Evolve World Championship” on 9 January 2015 . he continued to defend the championship stateside against the likes of Caleb Konley, Stevie Richards, Devi Galloway was suspended from EVOLVE after defeating Trent Barreta at evolve 46 . he showed remorse and retreated to the back after the match . after his suspension Galloway lost the title to Drew Gulak and Tracy Williams on 2 April . he went on a rant claiming he spent his entire title reign as champion bringing legitimacy to Evolve only for WWE and Galloway and EC3 defeat Gargano and TJP in street fight main-event to Evolve 62 . a grudge match between Galloways and Drew Gulak is reschedu Dustin and Galloway’s replacement, Chris Hero, lost the Evolve Tag Team Championship . despite supposed champions Catch Point holding physical belts, Evolving would continue to recognise both as the Tag Team Champions Galloway competed in one-night tournament for the International Wrestling Federation (IWF) World Championship . he defeated Tommaso Ciampa to advance to finals where he faced Brian Cage, Chris Galloway would eliminate Hero by pinfall, but failed to win the title . he made his first successful defence the following night . in a rematch in November, Coffey was successful in defeating Gallo Galloway returned to Mexico in November to main-event a series of AAA affiliated shows . he began a feud with Noam Dar, trading wins and losses . in february 2016, he entered the Galloway defeats Silas Young by pinfall in the first round . he defeats angelico in the quarter-finals before facing axel dieter Jr. in the semis . Gallo on 25 June, Galloway main-evented the first HD iPPV in European Wrestling history . he returned to PCW at their “Tribute to the Troops 3” show, where he Galloway defeated two-time AAW Heavyweight Champion Silas Young on 20 January 2017 . he defeated Joseph Conners and Joe Hendry in a three-way cage match on 30 November . Gallo Galloway returns to the ring following injury at ICW’s Fear & Loathing IX event . he defeated PJ Black on 26 November for Wrestlecade in north carolina . Gallo Galloway returns to IPW:UK for the first time since 2005 . he defeated Rampage Brown on 19 march 2017 at the “supershow 7” event . the following night, he competed in his first official on 10 April episode of impact wrestling, The Rising defeated The BDC by disqualification . Galloway and the members of The Rising came to help only to be beaten down . at Slammiversary, Gallo Galloway won a 20-man battle royal on impact wrestling . he lost the match after his former The Rising teammate, Eli Drake attacked him . on 23 september he became the number one contender for Ethan Galloway competed in a three-way match for the world title, which was won by Matt Hardy . he failed to advance the round of 8 where he was defeated in the main event by Lashley Galloway would then go on to earn a future TNA World Heavyweight Championship match . he would then cash-in a Feast or Fired briefcase for the TNA world heavyweight championship . Gallo Galloway announced his plan to be “the first travelling world champion since Ric Flair” he made his first defence of the title on 29 March episode of Impact Wrestling . he defeated Jeff Hardy to retain the Galloway would lose the title to Lashley at Slammiversary . he was twice unsuccessful in regaining his championship due to the involvement of Ethan Carter III . galloway and Carter came to blow Galloway faced Ethan Carter III in a losing effort for a world title shot . after the match, he attacked special guest referee aron rex, turning heel in the process . on 8 December on 19 January 2017, Galloway made his in-ring return to TNA, defeating Moose to win the Impact Grand Championship . on 26 February 2017, he confirmed that he had parted ways with TNA Galloway would return to PWG in March to face Trent and Trevor Lee at “all star weekend 12” despite controlling most of the offence in these matches, Gallaway lost both contests . it was later confirmed in on 4 October episode of NXT, McIntyre successfully retained his title against Roderick Strong . after a feud with Andrade “Cien” Almas, general manager William Regal scheduled a championship after the match, it was revealed that McIntyre suffered a torn bicep towards the end of the match . on 18 June episode of raw, McIntoyre assisted Ziggler in winning McIntyre and Ziggler defeated Braun Strowman to win the Raw Tag Team Championship . they successfully defended the titles against Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose . on 22 October episode of Raw, McIntyre and Ziggler lost the Raw Tag Team Championship to Rollins and Ambrose . at Survivor Series in November, he competed as a member of Team on 31 December episode of Raw, McIntyre defeated Ziggler in a steel cage match . at the Royal Rumble on 27 January 2019, he failed to win the match, after being eliminated by ziggler on 18 March episode of Raw, McIntyre challenged Reigns to a match at WrestleMania 35 . the next week on Raw, he got the upper hand and laid him out with the Claymore at Super ShowDown, McMahon defeated Reigns with help from McIntyre . at Stomping Grounds, despite interference from McMehon, Reign’s defeated McIn in early 2020, McIntyre would embark on a winning streak . he would vow to win the upcoming royal rumble match and receive his first world championship opportunity . in the match, he eliminated six McIntyre defeated Lesnar to capture the WWE Championship . he became the first-ever British-born world champion in WWE history . on 24 may 2011, Terrell announced that she and Galloway were divor Galloway married Kaitlyn Frohnapfel on 10 December 2016 .Galloway is a supporter of Scottish football team Rangers FC . Retrieved 20 February 2008. Drew McIntyre’s profile at Cagematch.net, Wrestlingdata.com, internet wrestling database .