7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 22)
2. The Hero Who Never Wins
Theres a good side and a bad side to this issue, so read on to hear the other side of the coin Monday night, we got to see Dean Ambrose display the proverbial more guts than brains, as he taunted Brock Lesnar and enticed him to attack. Having been pinned Sunday night and then beat up before Raw started, Ambrose was riding a wave of setbacks. He then drove an ambulance into the arena, crawled to the ring and dared Brock to hit him, which the Beast obliged. They then agreed to have a street fight at WrestleMania, which could be a really, really good match based on sheer carnage. But heres the problem: Fans keep chanting and cheering for Ambrose. They love him, and yet he keeps losing big matches. He lost his WWE World Heavyweight Championship feud against Seth Rollins last year. He lost to Roman Reigns for the world title at Survivor Series. He was the last man eliminated at the Royal Rumble. And he was the man pinned at Fastlane Sunday night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZJQ_04LinY Now he has to face a man who has not been pinned in nearly three years. At some point, Ambrose needs to win a major feud, or else hes just a glorified jobber. Granted, thats not what Dean is, but he needs to win a big one. And its doubtful that this feud with Brock will be little more than the announcers gushing over Ambroses high threshold of pain and congratulating him on hanging in there with the Beast.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
