7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Roadblock
2. A Worthy Main Event
Its very easy to be very critical of Roadblocks main event, mainly because after hyping the possibility that WrestleMania could drastically change, nothing ultimately changed when the final bell rang. Triple H will still face the absent Roman Reigns for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and Brock Lesnar will face a titleless Dean Ambrose.
Ambrose might have lost clean after stupidly trying to drive an elbow through Triple H on the announce table, but he and Hunter had a really good match that featured a different approach than the outright brawl fans might have been expecting. Dean used a ground game and attacked Triple Hs leg to bring The Game down a notch. He did little things like grabbing Helmsleys nose and separated his fingers to get under his skin too.
Fans absolutely were buying into the near-falls at the end, and the foot-under-the-ropes technicality might have sucked, but served the purpose of a visual pinfall without having to resort to a knocked-out referee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6dDaDmWrlA
Yes, many fans would agree that Ambrose should be in the main event at WrestleMania and not Reigns, and many undoubtedly feel that this match only served as a stopgap and just another defeat for Dean. But aside from it being a really good match, if the right people in WWE were paying attention, then its hard to ignore that Ambrose needs to be in the conversation as a top star.