‘Dead man walking’: Sheamus' dig at Gunther before title clash at WrestleMania

The latest occurrence of WWE SmackDown connected Friday night, was expected to determine the last contender to situation Gunther successful the Intercontinental rubric lucifer astatine WrestleMania 39. On Friday, Drew McIntyre and Sheamus locked horns with each different successful a bid to punch their summons for The Showcase Of The Immortals but their combat was interrupted by Gunther and Imperium.

Both Drew McIntyre and Sheamus volition combat against Gunther astatine WrestleMania 39 successful a triple menace match.(Twitter)

WWE authoritative Adam Pearce past decided that some McIntyre and Sheamus volition combat against Gunther astatine WrestleMania 39 successful a triple menace match. The authoritative update has been added to the lucifer paper for the two-day WWE extravaganza.

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Although Gunther has present held the Intercontinental rubric for the longest clip this century, it remains to beryllium seen whether helium volition proceed his reign aft The Show of Shows.

Meanwhile, Sheamus took to Twitter to explicit his heavy excitement connected getting a accidental to assertion the rubric astatine WrestleMania.

"Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania aft Triple Threat Mania," tweeted Sheamus.

Sheamus besides took a excavation astatine Gunther successful reply to a video of the champion posted by WWE. He tweeted "All one spot is fearfulness successful this video. This antheral is moving scared. The value of the IC Title connected his enarthrosis has yet taken its toll. Dead antheral walking. #guntapper".

The Celtic Warrior went a measurement further and took different jibe astatine some of his opponents calling them 'Backstabber' and 'Sandbagger'. He tweeted "Wrestlemania Main Event Night One: Sheamus V Backstabber V Sandbagger.. these anemic men won’t prevail. #ICTitle".

WrestleMania 39 is acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Los Angeles connected Saturday, April 1, and Sunday, April 2.