10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Shield

7. Goofball Dean Ambrose

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All three Shield members experienced great success following the group's dissolution, but Dean Ambrose was made to wait longer than his brothers. He was the last of the trio to become WWE Champion, and while Dean maintained a huge following after Seth Rollins' betrayal, he was booked like dirt.

Ambrose was continually put in losing positions, with much of his credibility eroded within his first few months as a singles act, but that's not even the worst of it. Splitting from The Shield transformed Dean from a genuinely dangerous Brian Pillman-esque loose cannon to a goofy prop comic, and the problem persists in 2017.

Among other things, Dean has lost matches with Bray Wyatt thanks to exploding televisions and "spooky" apparitions, assaulted The Authority with a hot dog cart, dressed up like The Mountie, and wrestled Chris Jericho in the comically bad Ambrose Asylum match at Extreme Rules 2016. There are times when he feels like nothing more than a rodeo clown, and while 'The Lunatic Fringe' maintains a sizeable fanbase, his character is far more enjoyable when he's allowed to tap into his old edginess.

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