8 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 1)

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8. Mean Dean

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Dean Ambrose’s antics are often a mixed bag. He does a lot of goofy things for a laugh, which often gets played off as him being a lunatic.

But when WWE manages to let the “Lunatic Fringe” silliness slide and just let Ambrose be humorous without being “insane,” it can be pretty entertaining. Case in point, Monday Dean took to interviewing all three men vying to become #1 contender for his Intercontinental Championship. The result was Ambrose calling himself “Mean” Dean Ambrose and throwing it back to Gene and Bobby, and to Gorilla.

Kudos to Michael Cole, who got in on the action and called Ambrose “Sean Mooney” at one point. It was a silly gag, but it also was harmless and enough of a distraction for the show.

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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.