10 Awesome Ideas That Were Cut From WWE
7. Ambrose Vs. Foley
Before he was AEW's ace and the world record holder for "longest time spent waiting for a vacation", Jon Moxley was tearing it up in WWE as Dean Ambrose.
Ambrose rose to prominence as a member of The Shield, but he could have become a lot more famous a lot quicker had this narrative been allowed to play out.
Before he had even appeared on the main roster, Ambrose started calling out Hall of Famer Mick Foley online. He blamed Foley for encouraging a generation of wrestlers to take stupid risks in order to get over, effectively saying that it was his fault that so many of his friends had gotten hurt or worse.
Foley responded and the two got into it on social media, leading many to speculate that a match between the two was in the works. Unfortunately, Foley wasn't able to get medically cleared, so the fight was off.
Imagine if our first look at Dean Ambrose was as the man who pulled Mick Foley out of retirement. It's not quite The Shield, but it would have been better than those lame turtlenecks they wore during their debut.