Last week, Dean Ambrose took an absolute beating. He was suplexed multiple times by Brock Lesnar and pinned by his best friend Roman Reigns at Fastlane. The next night on Raw, Ambrose called out Lesnar and got his a$$ handed to him again, but at least this time got what he wanted: a WrestleMania street fight against the Beast. Ambrose was too beaten up to show for Smackdown last week, but it remains to be seen if hell turn up for Raw Monday night. Dean has made a habit of taking a beating and continuing to stand up. It would run counter to that image if he was incapacitated this week. However, it also would be in line with previous Lesnar beatdowns for an opponent to need to convalesce for a week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1BtlUV-Dw Also, given that theres a good chance that Reigns will be out this week after the beating Triple H dished out, can WWE really afford to have two top guys out the same week due to beatings? Ambrose returned to the arena last week in an ambulance. Maybe hell drag himself to the ring once against Monday.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
