10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Champion Dean Ambrose
4. He's Hardcore...
Ambrose has been no slouch in the violence department during his WWE tenure, racking up an incredible number and type of gimmick matches in three and a half years. He's fallen off the Cell, jumped off ladders, and even joined the dubious company of The Great Khali in being 'awarded' his own gimmick match with the Ambrose Asylum. And, while that was something of a conceptual failure, it's clear that WWE entrusts Ambrose completely with what JBL irritatingly refers to as 'the toys'.
That probably has something to do with the fearsome reputation he forged in the likes of Combat Zone Wrestling, one of the grislier promotions borne from the hardcore revolution popularised by Atsushi Onita and Paul Heyman in the 90's. Completely unafraid of barbed wire, light tubes, glass, forks and screws, your garden variety multi-man ladder match must seem like a breeze to Ambrose. Dean was routinely rendered a bloody mess in his pre-WWE days, a sight you're not likely to see in WWE in 2016.
Though Ambrose would go on to demonstrate that there was more to his act, in his work with DGUSA especially, it's those sadistic CZW clips which make up the bulk of his YouTube legacy.