‘My mum will always be my hero’

As a pro wrestler, Drew McIntyre is one of WWE’s biggest and brashest villains.

But away from the ring the Ayrshire grappler has a hero close to his heart – his late mum Angela.

Watching his mother get on with life despite suffering from the rare brain condition cerebellar ataxia inspired him to keep going with his own, seemingly unlikely dream of becoming a wrestling star.

“I guess her example is what pushed me to do the unattainable,” says Drew, who has held the WWE’s world and heavyweight championships three times.

Growing up in Prestwick, at a time when the main Scottish connection to WWE came in the…