Sheamus Believes His Match At WrestleMania 39 Should Have Been The Main Event

That’s certainly an opinion. WWE superstar Sheamus was recently a guest on Virgin Media Sports Stories, where he discussed several topics. Among them was his Triple Threat match for the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania 39 and his debut on the main roster in 2008.

Below are some highlights from the interview:

On his match at WrestleMania 39:

“The IC Title,” Sheamus stated. “That’s it. I want to main event WrestleMania too. I want to main event WrestleMania. That’s another one. The IC Title and main event WrestleMania are the two things I want to do. I should have main evented WrestleMania last year or this year [2023]. It should have gone on last. It stole the show at WrestleMania. Nothing came close, match-wise, the match me, Gunther, and Drew had. I knew that was always going to be the case. I was so close [winning the title] at Mania, and it just got taken away from me.”

On his debut in 2008:

“Mark Henry and Tony Atlas were in a feud with Fit Finlay, and they’re going to bring me up with Fit Finlay at a pay-per-view before December 2008,” Sheamus stated. “So I was supposed to go up in 2008, so about a year. I’d probably be there for about a year. And that all got scratched, I think, because Vince [McMahon] asked, ‘What’s the plans after that?’ And he didn’t have any plans after it. So I was about to go on the road….so I just came back to Ireland for Christmas. But that was the first moment where I’m like, ‘Okay, they want to make sure when they bring me up, they use me, right? They’re not just going to throw me into something.’ That’s when I knew like they’re saying, like ‘They’re just waiting for the right moment to bring you up and the right thing.’ And that finally happened in 2009, June 30th, when I debuted on ECW.”

[h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription]

 

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