10 Wrestlers Who Knew They Were On The Way Out

10. Dean Ambrose (WWE Monday Night Raw, 2019)

There was noting Seth Rollins or Roman Reigns could do to change Dean Ambrose's mind when he elected to leave WWE in early 2019, but Vince McMahon's ostensible attempts to crush his character on the way out inadvertently teased out some of the comedy we'd come to expect from polymath Jon Moxley later in the year.

Having almost done the job for Nia Jax and gone 50/50 with EC3, Ambrose was sliding down the card before the company saw money and magic in bringing The Shield back together one last time. To do this, they needed to reunite 'The Lunatic Fringe' and 'The Architect' following their failed bitter split the prior winter. To do that, they scripted a bumbling Ambrose to no-sell the entire feud.

To the shock of those within WWE and absolutely nobody outside of it, he nailed it. Ambrose wasn't a prop comic, he was just sharp, quick-witted and knew what made people laugh. Too little too late in WWE, but his final days were a total blast ahead of an era-defining debut in AEW.