10 Dumbest Ways WWE Wrestlers Lost Matches

2. "Hologram".

Dean Ambrose TLC 2014
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At the climax of a d*mn good Hell In A Cell match, Bray Wyatt interfered. The blood feud between former brothers Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins just couldn't have a happy ending, even for 24 hours. We instead were confronted with a horror show, though perhaps not in the way WWE intended.

Ambrose, after the arena lights went out, became spooked at a hologram in the middle of the ring - so much so that he walked into Wyatt's Sister Abigail. It's unclear what this was meant to be. It looked like both a shuffling cliché ghost and a Klan member. What is clear is that, in the words of Wyatt himself, this wasn't Sister Abigail. Speaking to Chad Dukes of CBS Radio Washington around those halcyon days of late 2014, Wyatt claimed the following:

"One thing, and I want to get this out there so no one’s misconstrued, that was not Abigail. I don’t think anyone has looked closely enough. I think everyone skipped over that part and chocked it up to being some fancy illusion or something. I don’t ever do something just to be doing it. There’s always a point behind everything."

There was no point to this, obviously, and it was never revisited. Wyatt did not help from beyond to win the resulting feud with Ambrose. All he had to do was sit in the corner of the ring...

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