10 Awesome WWE Promos You Probably Don't Remember
3. Ain’t Nothing Gonna Stop Me
Money In The Bank, June 14th 2015
Dean Ambrose’ weird, rambling, intermittently explosive style on the mic doesn’t lend itself well to articles like this. Although he’s got charisma to spare, Ambrose is a method kinda guy: he treats promos like opportunities to get across his character, as well as the bullet points he’s been given.
But then there’s this amazing, dark (as in, not broadcast on the pay-per-view) promo he cut for the live crowd and WWE.com, immediately after losing to Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Money In The Bank last year.
Out of breath and selling the fight he’d just been in, and surrounded by fallen ladders, Ambrose cuts his version of the seminal Hard Times promo that ‘the American Dream’ Dusty Rhodes delivered thirty years earlier, explaining the reason why he’d stolen Rollin’s title belt weeks earlier in the simplest terms possible: because he’d earned it, and he damn well deserved it.
It’s a passionate, intense and completely relatable babyface promo, straight from his lips to the hearts of everyone watching, as ‘the Lunatic Fringe’ eloquently, angrily states his case for being the next WWE World Heavyweight Champion, throwing down the mic to the canvas almost before he spits out the final words.
In a lovely little coda to this peerless performance on the stick: true to his promise, a year later at Money In The Bank 2016, Ambrose would win the company’s top title from Seth Rollins.