16 Things We Learned From Dean Ambrose On Stone Cold's WWE Network Podcast
10. Joining WWE
Austin asks what finally got his foot in the door and brought him to the company, and he credits Joey Mercury as being the one to help make it happen. He doesn't really know who was involved in the conversation or how it came about.
He says that no one rolled out the red carpet for him and probably had no idea what they were getting. At the time he was crashing on his friend's floor in Philadelphia. He received a call from a talent scout from WWE who is no longer there - which he thought was a rib - and says he's lucky he didn't screw up the call because of it.
An hour later Mercury called him and asked about the call, congratulating him and Dean had to hang up and actually process what just happened. Once he talked to a secretary he finally realized it was going down.