8 Worst Improvised Moments That Made It To WWE TV
7. LaVar Ball Gets More Creative Freedom Than Dean Ambrose
If you ignore the very decent money, it sure must have sucked ass to be a WWE wrestler in the late 2010s.
They didn’t get the chance to wrestle in their preferred style. They were ordered to structure their matches virtually move for move by a road agent. They weren’t allowed anything in the way of creative freedom to express their personality.
You know who was?
Insane egocentric LaVar Ball, notorious in 2017 for being an aspirational stage father. Intent on building an NBA dynasty, he was very much a “character” who, at the cost of his dignity, was very adept at getting his kids’ names in the public consciousness.
WWE sought to capitalise on his fame by having him appear on Miz TV. The results were spectacular - provided, of course, you were prone to enjoying WWE’s misfortunes, which were very much invited at that time.
LaVar, patriarch of the Big Baller Brand, was profoundly obnoxious in the segment. If he was given explicit instructions, he did not follow them.
Miz asked to form some sort of alliance or whatever. The whole thing was set up for LaVar’s close pal of many years, Dean Ambrose, to kick Miz’s ass on his behalf. By the time Ambrose came out and started talking, his music was played almost as quickly to bring an all-time trainwreck to a swift, necessary conclusion. It was such a farce that it ended before the reason behind it happened.
LaVar wouldn’t let the Miz say a thing; he was too busy trying to get his own, insane sh*t in. He said the Miz is short for “Mizinterpreted zone” - what? - and generally acted like a hopped-up brat, bouncing all over the place and disrupting the flow.
He enjoyed more freedom to say his own stuff than Dean Ambose. It’s no wonder Ambrose became Jon Moxley.