Dean Ambrose Interview

[The GOAT]

In an interview with Trib Live Sports, Dean Ambrose spoke about being unpredictable and revealed that he didn’t like John Cena’s act. Here are the highlights…

On being compared to Brian Pillman, Roddy Piper and Stone Cold Steve Austin: “You’re always going to get comparisons. Everybody comes out and says he’s the next so and so or he reminds me of so and so. The thing with me is I’ve studied so much wrestling, so many wrestlers, so many eras and styles for so long. My entire life has been dedicated to being obsessed with this. I have so many influences and stuff in my brain, who knows what’s going to pop in and come out. I don’t really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

On not being predictable: “There’s a lot of guys in WWE, you would know who they are, you know you’re going to see the same thing every single match. You know you’re going to hear the same thing every time they pick up a microphone. You know John Cena is never going to get mad at you no matter what you do. You could steal his dog or set his house on fire and he’s not going to get all that mad at you. He’s going to come out and do the same thing he always does. Me, I’m not like that. I get pretty upset pretty quickly. I don’t like having an entrance or anything like that too set in stone. A lot of guys come out and have the exact little dance or exact little thing that goes off at the right time with the pyro. What if I’m not in the mood to do my little dance this week?”

On the Attitude era: “I don’t like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I’m not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I’m actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman’s breasts. Hilarious, but where’s the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I’m like where’s the wrestling? It’s just a lot of crappy jokes.”

Here's the whole interview:



The only thing new in it from what I posted above is that Ambrose says certain dream matches of his would have been with Mick Foley and Bret Hart back in the day. He refused to state what any of his dream matches with modern-day opponents would be since he'd prefer to keep the element of surprise.

I consider myself a big Attitude Era fan, but it's hard to disagree with what he says about it. A lot of that stuff just doesn't hold up well today, and some of it (mainly a few of DX's antics) wasn't even that funny back then when I was still just a toddler.

 

[Leo C]

Loved his statement on entrances. This guy shall be the man in WWE

 

[Red Rain]

He seems like a smark, but not in a CM Punk dou*** like kind of way.
Smarks in wrestling are good provided they put it all into practice rather than complain about internet geeks.
Even Dolph Ziggler smarkishly went about things ill-advised. The JBL's, the CM Punk's and the Dolph's Ziggler's were all malcontents.

This cat is different. He was asked a question and stated his opinion. He's clearly doing it now rather b*tching about the future or the opportunities he hasn't been afforded.