8 Wrestlers WWE Pushed In The WORST Way Possible

8. Dean Ambrose

If you've read Jon Moxley's excellent 'Mox' autobiography, you'll know that he is deadly serious about the art of professional wrestling. The smell of the canvas, the contrast of styles that each performer brings to the table, the sheer physicality and grit of combat; these are the reasons that Moxley is in love with the squared circle. Nothing about the man is contrived or wacky, and his ridiculous run as Dean Ambrose is largely why his post-WWE career has evolved around gritty realism.

Dean Ambrose is one of the most egregious cases of WWE fundamentally misunderstanding a character in company history. When debuting in The Shield, Ambrose was the group's unhinged agent of chaos. WWE creative saw this psychotic menace and decided to turn it wacky.

Ambrose went from being viciously maniacal to being portrayed as an idiot who was out of control. The "Lunatic Fringe" (shudder) was no longer a feral berserker; he was so out of his mind and "zany" that he'd have a feud over a potted plant or bring a hot dog cart to the ring, squeezing ketchup and mustard into people's faces like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon. WWE had a killer on their hands, but instead decided to turn Pennywise the Clown into Krusty the Clown.