10 Exact Moments Wrestlers Died Inside
3. Dean Ambrose
The Dean Ambrose Chronicle was a fascinating watch then - it was a gripping blend of the work and the shoot documenting a complex and fascinating man that stood in astonishing contrast to the cartoon he played on television - and it's even more fascinating now.
It's a documentary that sought to capture Dean Ambrose's return to WWE, but really, it's about Jon Moxley's exit.
It's fascinating even in the cold open.
It captures Moxley, pissed off at the process, accusing the team behind it of trying to dictate his narrative. "I'm not gonna manufacture some answer for you. Go find somebody else, and go give him a script," Moxley says. He's essentially on Talk Is Jericho before the material drove him over the edge to even appear on Talk Is Jericho. The very first minute is loaded in damning subtext as Moxley, bustling with the furious energy he would later apply to his awesome NJPW and AEW runs, projects everything simmering within him onto the crew.
"I just want it to be over. I just wanna get back to being in the ring, get back to doing what I'm doing."
As he later told Chris Jericho on that incendiary podcast appearance, he didn't know that it wasn't the WWE ring he wanted to get back into.