3. Dean Ambrose Turns Heel
There's a great story that started at Night of Champions where Chris Jericho dropped the ball against the Wyatt Family and there was tension with Jericho and Ambrose. The idea that Jericho enters the championship tournament this Monday on Raw in a segment backstage with Triple H and Ambrose present and the heat returns could lead somewhere. The next week on Raw, there's the idea that Jericho gets goaded into a match against Bray Wyatt by Dean Ambrose. Jericho loses to Wyatt and is injured after the match, yet still comes to Survivor Series, where he's put into a match against, you guessed it, Dean Ambrose. Before the match, Hunter stops by Ambrose and Reigns' locker room, and interrupts a convo where Reigns is like "Dean, can't believe you did that to Chris..." Dean's all "old man can't hang...I'm gonna go win a championship." When Hunter comes by, he says that Seth told him that the winner of the tournament was standing in that locker room." Hunter locks eyes with Reigns in a steely and tough manner, then leaves. Jericho and Ambrose starts off normal, then while Ambrose is attacking Jericho's injured body part, the doctors get involved not once, but twice. When they go to get involved again, Ambrose snaps, and begins to savagely assault Jericho to the point that he's unable to continue. The semifinal round would have Ambrose vs. Cesaro and Reigns vs. Owens. Reigns would beat Owens, but when Ambrose would walk out to face Cesaro, all we'd see is a bloody Cesaro and a sledgehammer near him. Cole would point out the sledgehammer, and claim that...that it just couldn't be. The finals happen, and during the match, Ambrose would be hyper-aggressive and hit Reigns with what would appear to be an errant low blow. Reigns would catch Ambrose with a low-blow receipt, and after a Superman punch, the lights would go off in the arena. When the lights were back on, J & J Security would be at ringside holding a sledgehammer, Roman Reigns would be unconscious, and Dean Ambrose would slyly smile and pin Roman with one foot. After the match, Hunter, Steph and J & J would hit the ring, and Ambrose would have the belt.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
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