8 Dropped Ideas That Could've Helped WWE Ratings
2. The Dean Ambrose Heel Turn
No, not the one we’ve all put to the back of our minds amidst the sound of sirens and the memories of body odour-laced promos. Instead, this is about the Dean Ambrose heel turn that didn’t happen.
From late 2013 and through until WrestleMania XXX, the cracks began to form in The Shield. Cracks that were largely caused by Ambrose’s erratic behaviour.
Given how Dean was always the most natural heel of the three, the best promo of the three, and the one who was most capable of carrying the weight of being a top level singles act at that time, it seemed only a matter of time before The Lunatic Fringe caused The Shield to explode.
What we got, of course, was Seth Rollins turning on Ambrose and Roman Reigns just two months after ‘Mania XXX.
If WWE would have continued with the idea of Dean Ambrose being the one to break up The Shield, fans would’ve gotten a serious, calculated, vicious Ambrose – rather than the Goofy Dean character who soon reared his head to yuck it up and attack people with condiments and potted plants.
As an added bonus, this would also have stopped fans getting that awful initial heel character of Rollins, while having Ambrose as a genuinely hated heel would’ve given the babyface Roman Reigns somebody to play off and hopefully would’ve stopped the rejected response *begin Michael Cole voice* The Big Dog *end Michael Cole voice* soon found himself in the midst of.