Dean Ambrose's Top 10 WWE Moments
Not a single exploding television in-sight.
Dean Ambrose’s three-and-a-half WWE career has been nothing if not eventful. From running with The Shield to flying solo, to epic six-man tag team matches and his fantastic series of one-on-ones with Seth Rollins, 'The Lunatic Fringe' has been one of WWE’s most heavily-featured superstars since his debut, and undoubtedly one of the most popular.
Ambrose’s has been a story of peaks and troughs. Though he’s currently riding high after a potentially career-defining night at Money in the Bank, you can’t mention Dean Ambrose’s WWE career without recalling all the silliness he’s had to endure to get to this point.
How about losing to Bray Wyatt at Tables, Ladders, and Chairs 2014 not because of something his opponent did, but because a television exploded in his face?
Or being frozen with fear by Wyatt’s hologram earlier that year, costing him a Hell in the Cell match with Seth Rollins?
Or the time he attacked The Authority with a stolen hotdog cart and lashings of ketchup and mustard?
WWE creative haven’t exactly given poor old Dean the easiest of rides since The Shield’s mid-2014 split, but it’d be wrong to let the bad times overshadow the good. For all the bizarre character quirks and weak booking he’s withstood, Ambrose has still produced some of the most memorable moments in modern WWE history.
10. The Shield Vs. Team Hell No & Ryback (Tables, Ladders And Chairs 2012)
The Shield’s run as WWE’s ruthless alpha stable produced an extraordinary number of quality six-man tag matches, owing not just to the group’s incredible chemistry, but their contrasting strengths inside the ring. Roman Reigns was the dominant powerhouse, Seth Rollins was the dynamic uber-athlete who everyone assumed would be the group’s big breakout babyface, while Ambrose took control with controlled bursts of violence.
Everyone has a different favourite six-man Shield match, but this contest can lay claim to being one of the greatest TLC matches of all time. The story was simple: Kane, Daniel Bryan, and Ryback were dead-set on revenge for the constant beatdowns that The Shield had subjected them to over the previous weeks, and really, that’s all you need.
It’s a wildly entertaining match, featuring a strong start from the babyface group (particularly Ryback, who put-in the performance of a lifetime) before The Shield’s greater cohesion finally took over. From there, The Hounds of Justice worked to isolate their opponents one-by-one before racing to a thrilling conclusion.