10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2018
4. Jon Moxley Thought Vince McMahon Ruined The Dean Ambrose Return
It took just one match for Jon Moxley to exorcise any remaining demons from his run as Dean Ambrose.
His NJPW clash with Juice Robinson concluded not with a Dirty Deeds but a Death Rider. Everything about his aesthetic was different, down to the way he'd be able to beat others outside of the WWE bubble.
It was a bubble he'd felt oppressed by for a long time, as fleshed out by a revealing appearance on Chris Jericho's podcast. Moxley magnificently articulated his frustrations, right down to the details of how something good could be made worse.
As he put it when lamenting the mistakes made with his 2018 comeback;
“So they have this promo segment going on and I didn’t realize the way that they wrote this. I’m sitting behind the curtain waiting for that pop, it’s all going to be worth it, nine months, it’s all going to be worth it, then the way it’s written Seth goes ‘if you’re going to have a Scottish Psychopath in your corner then I’m gonna have a lunatic in mine’ so it muddled the pop into like four different reactions. It’s a small example of how they ruin everything...”
Watch it back - he's right. Ambrose gets an enormous response, but much of it was irritatingly diluted.