16 Things We Learned From Dean Ambrose On Stone Cold's WWE Network Podcast
The Lunatic Fringe goes toe-to-toe with The Rattlesnake.
Every month or so the WWE Network brings in Stone Cold to host a podcast interview with one of the top members of the company. The last edition featuring the normally reserved AJ Styles ended up being one of the more interesting editions, so when Dean Ambrose was announced as the next guest, anticipation was high.
As WWE champion, the man they call "The Lunatic Fringe" has survived some pretty questionable booking to remain one of the top guys in the roster, working hard and continuing to get over despite everything he's been given.
That hard work finally paid off as he was rewarded with a championship run and is now one of the anchoring stars of the new SmackDown brand.
Dean sat down with Steve Austin for an interview which was at times contentious and a little bit tense, but definitely entertaining.
Read on and find out why he was furious about his match with Brock Lesnar, his unflattering opinion of The Beast, if it was the right time to break up The Shield and why he's Vince McMahon's favorite wrestler.
16. Growing Up On The Mean Streets Of Cincinnati
The two men kick things off by chopping it up a bit about music, and Stone Cold is surprised that Dean has an affinity for country, pegging him as more of a grunge guy. Ambrose says he likes the old school outlaw country but doesn't have much use in a lot of the modern stuff on the radio, adding that he likes all genres.
Austin wants to know what his formative years in Ohio were like, shouting out Cincinatti as the home of his former tag team partner, the late Brian Pillman. Ambrose lived in a small apartment where his mom worked overnight. With a father living out of state, he and his sister were left to fend for themselves, which is how he thinks he developed his "wandering spirit."
He says that that particular upbringing made him the person he is and he's thankful for it. He says that his mom was just able to quit her job at a factory that she'd been working out 12-plus hours a day, now that he's been making some good money. He calls it the best accomplishment he'd ever had in wrestling.
Austin asks if he grew up in public housing, and he replies that he did but he was happy and didn't know any better, adding that he "doesn't have any kind of sob stories about it."