10 Reasons WWE Fans Need To Realise Dean Ambrose Is Not Main Event Talent

2. Lacks That One Great, Defining Match

Every great superstar has that one defining match that fans can point to as the moment they firmly established themselves as one of the elites in World Wrestling Entertainment.

For Steve Austin, it was his WrestleMania 13 war with Bret Hart. Shawn Michaels had the WrestleMania X Ladder match against Razor Ramon. The Ultimate Warrior's epic squash of The Honky Tonk Man at SummerSlam 1988 also comes to mind. Ambrose, though, does not have said defining match and it has seriously hurt his ability to maintain a main event push.

While video packages and write-ups on WWE.com would suggest that his Hell in a Cell match against Seth Rollins in October 2014 was some all-time great, or that his TLC match with Bray Wyatt two months later was a career-maker for The Lunatic Fringe, they were good matches that never really excelled past that point. The same can be said for any number of bouts he has competed in.

For whatever reason, be it his unique and frenetic style meshing with that of his opponent's or the layout of the matches, they never quite live up to the hype that precedes them. Until Ambrose can deliver that one performance, in that one iconic match, it will be difficult to accept him as a bona fide main event star, particularly given the other issues facing him, as described elsewhere on this list.