10 Wrestlers More Suitable To Main Event WrestleMania 32 Than Roman Reigns

by Andrew Pollard

1. Dean Ambrose

Whenever the WWE seems to get even the slightest bit behind Dean Ambrose, the crowd reacts massively. This is a superstar who the WWE Universe is dying to cheer, is dying to support, and who they want to see given a shot at the big time. In terms of active performers, The Lunatic Fringe is the most popular babyface that WWE has at their disposal right now. Maybe it€™s a little bit of a simple way to look at it these days, but wasn€™t it always meant to be that WrestleMania saw the biggest bad guy going up against the biggest good guy, that the nefarious villain was finally brought to his knees thanks to the all-conquering hero? Whilst Triple H can be positioned as the company€™s top heel (even though Kevin Owens is a far better one right now), there€™s no doubt that Ambrose is the most popular active WWE superstar at this point. The fact that the WWE supposedly called an audible to have Ambrose get to the final two of the Royal Rumble last month shows that they know he€™s guaranteed to get the right reaction against Triple H, and the crowd went wild at the prospect of Dean and The Game duking it out during the company€™s over-the-top-rope extravaganza. This is in comparison to the cheers received from Triple H eliminating Roman Reigns in the same match. Whether WWE wants to admit it or not, right now Dean Ambrose is the best option that they have when it comes to opponents for Triple H at WrestleMania. Does that mean that we€™ll get WWE€™s resident madman headlining their biggest show? Sadly, likely not. We can hope, though.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks/Saints, Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.