As previously reported, Drew McIntyre is not injured after disappearing during this past Tuesday night’s SmackDown LIVE Main Event, which saw The New Day win a 6-Man Tag Team Match over Drew McIntyre & The Bar. McIntyre had been in control of Woods at one point, but he disappeared during a commercial break and was never seen on TV again. Fans in the arena saw McIntyre walk away from the ring and to the back, speculating that he may be injured. The recent report indicated that the walk out by McIntyre was planned as WWE Officials wanted to protect McIntyre following his WrestleMania 35 loss to Roman Reins because they need him to be a top guy. The idea on Tuesday night, according to Wrestling Observer Radio, was that WWE Officials wanted McIntyre nowhere near the losing side of a match right after The Reigns match and the idea was that when fans watched on TV, they would forget McIntyre was even in the match.
According to an update that was recently provided by PWInsider, the original plan for Tuesday’s post-WrestleMania 35 edition of SmackDown LIVE had McIntyre vs. WWE Champion Kofi Kingston in a Singles Main Event Matchup. The match was changed to The 6-Man Tag Team Match as the day progressed, but there is no word yet on why they nixed The Singles Match, but it could have been to help protect McIntyre as WWE Champion Kofi Kingston was going to win the match anyways.
It was also reported that WWE cut time from The 6-Man Main Event Matchup. The finish of the match was to focus on The New Day beating The Bar and there was no time to explain taking McIntyre out of the equation, according to PWInsider and that is why Drew was instructed to return to the back.