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6. Dean Ambrose Turns Heel By Attacking James Ellsworth

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We've already established that there's not much of a chance that James Ellsworth will turn heel by attacking Dean Ambrose... but could the opposite happen?

We've already seen Ellsworth cost Ambrose a match once before - a Smackdown contest with AJ Styles that would have earned Ambrose number one contendership. Ultimately, Ambrose got another shot and made good on it, but if he loses at TLC, he's probably out of the title picture for the foreseeable future. What happens if a well-meaning Ellsworth accidentally costs Ambrose his last chance at the WWE World Championship?

Ambrose has, by most accounts, not been doing his best work over the past few months - maybe a heel turn is in order to freshen him up. The easiest way for him to turn heel would be with a beatdown on a well-meaning (but ultimately destructive) Ellsworth.

Unlike an Ellsworth turn, this one might actually make sense. Still, I'm leaning toward no, just so all three Shield guys can be babyfaces and do spots in the Royal Rumble.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013