10 WWE Wrestlers Who Told You They Were Pissed

10. Dean Ambrose Vents On Chronicle

The edition of Chronicle that followed Dean Ambrose upon his return from injury in 2018 is fascinating in retrospect.

A quasi-worked documentary, it captures Mox in a certain place. We know from his infamous Talk Is Jericho appearance that he first realised he wanted to leave as he prepared to come back, and this is the exact moment that WWE decided to document his thoughts. He wanted to wrestle; just not in WWE. He watched various rock concerts, the way in which the lead singer would interact with and control the crowd, and was envious of their freedom to perform, to change up a lyric, to feel in the zone. He enjoyed watching the Killers perform at the Royal Albert Hall, jealous that Michael Hayes wasn't telling Brandon Flowers to save Mr. Brightside for a bigger crowd.

The whole thing is crawling with subtext. Very early, Ambrose is filmed training, and says "I just love to grapple," and you can almost hear the unfinished thought "...and not this TV clown sh*t".

In the closing scene, Ambrose is filmed in the desert. He's talking about turning on the Shield, but his demeanour, and some of the choices he makes, are telling: "I'm not gonna read some script and try to play out some little fantasy little ending...that's not my life".

In a few short months, it wasn't.