Drew McIntyre Details Dealing With Serious Hearing Issues

Drew McIntyre is scheduled for a major match at WrestleMania 40, having won the men's Elimination Chamber match for the right to challenge Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship. That match will take place on night two of WWE's biggest show of the year on Sunday, April 7.

McIntyre suffered a minor injury in the Elimination Chamber match, sustaining a ruptured eardrum. The two-time WWE Champion has since revealed, though, that hearing issues are a common problem for him to the point McIntyre has learned how to lip read. 

"Physically, I still feel terrible from the (Elimination) Chamber. I took most of the big falls it seemed even though - I guess Randy's maybe bigger than me these days and (Bobby) Lashley's jacked but basically the biggest guys somehow ended up taking all the worst falls. Logan (Paul) diving on my face and getting my eardrum perforated so, I'm kind of staring at your lips watching what you're saying because I found out about a year-and-a-half ago from an ear specialist because I have bad hearing in general that I taught myself to lip read which I had no idea," McIntyre told Gorilla Position.

"We did a little test where he was talking, had me put my fingers in my ears where I could still hear him, was telling him what he was saying and he slowly slipped up a piece of paper in front of his face and I was like, 'I can't hear what you're saying. You've lowered your voice.' My wife was like, 'He hasn't. He's the exact same volume.' He went, 'Yeah, you're a smart guy. You just taught yourself to lip read because your hearing is so bad.' Oh, fantastic. Then it got perforated. So, I won't say who it was because I don't want them to feel bad, but it's very annoying because I can't hear jack."

Although he is in a major match at WrestleMania 40, Drew McIntyre's WWE future has yet to be 100 per cent finalised. The expectation is he will end up sticking with WWE but as of last word he had not put pen to paper on a new deal. 

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