Originally Written Mar 6

Hey everyone hope you’re doing well and everything……..so I felt the need to talk about this separately, because I was getting very fired up about this topic on my wrestling highlight post, I was highlighting Raw & Smackdown from 2 weeks ago, you’ll probably read that one later after reading this post, depending on which one I want to share first, but let’s just jump into this because I want to share some thoughts with you guys on it……….

Alright so Dean Ambrose, let’s just sit and talk about him for a bit……..so for those who don’t know, which i’m sure is a lot of you……….when I use to tune in to wrestling everyday, one of my all time favorite wrestlers was Dean Ambrose and I when I say fan, I seriously mean fan, he’s still is one of my favorites til this day!! We all have specific people we become drawn to for some unknown reason and for me Dean Ambrose was one of those people.

Now i’m going to try and keep this post from sounding super ranty because I want to make good points with this, i’m not sure if I will do so, but i’m going to try okay………..Some people may say that Dean Ambrose is overrated and isn’t that great, me however, I would differ………I feel Dean is actually very underrated and is still great, he puts over a lot of superstars, without ever complaining………Dean doesn’t care to be the greatest, he just does his own thing and just goes with things and I think that’s one of the reasons why I became so drawn to him……….you see, he has a story Dean Ambrose.

Same with other wrestlers and people, but with Dean his story is very interesting, it’s to the point where he makes you want to look more into it, as well as wanting to get to know the person that he is apart from being known as just a wrestler. We all know Dean keeps everything to himself, he doesn’t boast about things, he prefers to just keep his private life private, which makes you think, maybe we should take a page out of his book at times, you know!?

I could talk about Dean all day if I wanted to, believe me, but i’m just gonna skip over and talk about what I came here to talk about, which is his character development…………I already talked a bit about this in my highlights so i’m going to try not to repeat what I already said, but I don’t know what the heck they are doing when it comes to Dean’s character………

I really don’t, like can anyone tell me what goes on in creatives brain when it comes to Dean Ambrose!? Anyone!? *breath and go* every time I watch Dean’s matches it’s like I get excited because I know Dean is good, I know how great of a performer he is in the ring……….people may say he’s not good, but he is, he just has a unique (in my opinion) fighting style.

Dean is a brawler type, so he goes everywhere when he throws punches and maybe a lot of people don’t like that about him or maybe they just don’t like his character, I don’t know, everyone has different opinions on people………but me, I know how good Dean is, i’ve seen him have really great matches, we’ve all seen him have great matches at some point in his career, it’s every time he faces of against Seth Rollins, it’s every time he puts his heart out there and just goes with things and you see it turn into something you wouldn’t expect.

Dean is someone you have to really look deeply at to know what he’s thinking and what he plans on doing, if you don’t get to know him on a deeper level to what he is as a person and as a wrestler, you’re gonna be confused and you’re not gonna get it……..Dean Ambrose isn’t just a character, that’s him, with Dean what you see, that is what you’re getting and again I said this in my highlights, but it’s frustrating to see one of your favorite not just wrestlers, but person as well, get treated the way they are.

You can feel Dean wants a little more than what he’s been given and I think he deserve it, if they’re not going to help him find a better way to develop his character, why don’t they just let him do it himself and improvise, they let Bray Wyatt do it, why not let Dean do the same!? I’ll be honest here, although I still consider Dean as one of my all time favorite wrestlers, I did also go off him a bit and when that happened I felt really bad………

It felt like I was giving up on him in a way and I don’t want to give up on Dean, because he is a really great talent and I still believe in him and I still see something there as well. It’s just sad because Dean use to be seen as an equal to both Roman & Seth (two other members of the Shield that are also my favorites) but it’s like now he doesn’t even compare to them, like he’s not on their level and that’s not how it should be, he should be seen as “i’m just as good as my brothers are” but it shouldn’t be just as good either………..

I feel Dean is now being overlooked in a sense and it’s just a shame to see, because I don’t know about you guys, but I know that there’s so much more to Dean then quick matches that seem to last for about a minute or 2 and it’s not memorable. Dean’s matches shouldn’t be forgotten, they shouldn’t just be seen as “well that was alright” We should be looking forward to watching his matches, I want to be excited about watching a Dean Ambrose match.

I want that surprise and badass brawler who doesn’t care about what he does and just gives that fight back to whoever he’s facing, give us that heart again from him, gives us that “i’m not going to stop until I get what I want” bring us that fire and fight back in his eyes that he had when he first arrived, GIVE US SOMETHING!!!

I’m not trying to sound ranty, i’m really not, believe me, but when it comes to Dean i’m just really passionate about the way he’s being treated, I want to see the best out of him, I want to see him and say “That’s the Dean Ambrose we know” because I know that he has more to him than what we see only on a weekly or in my case somewhat basis……….

You know what moments I remember from Dean, I remember that guy who when he and Seth had that ladder match at Money In The Bank for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (2015) both him and Seth holding on to the title from the top of the ladder, both come crashing down onto the mat, no one is sure on who got the title……..turned out to be Seth in the end………..the heart he had there in that match, seeing how hurt he was knowing he didn’t get it, like I wanted to cry with Dean when that happened………and let’s not forget the speech he gave afterwards letting us know that, he would be champion no matter what it took!!!

That’s the Dean I want to see again……….I also remember that match he had at Elimination Chamber, against Seth again and the fight he gave Seth in that match, he was out numbered because of J & J security and I think Kane too (can’t remember if Kane was there at the time) I know Roman came to his rescue, but anyway the fight he gave Seth and him thinking he won the match in the end and how happy and excited he was, that made me happy……….and emotional thinking he won that match.

Everything he had to endure and thinking in that moment he had finally captured the title, that was the best feeling……….but then of course it turned out he didn’t win and my heart broke there and I was super upset………Dean though did not let that stop him, he felt he won and stole Seth title, which was hilarious and flipping awesome too………THAT’S the Dean that I want to see again!!

I want to see the Dean Ambrose who got so furious at Bad News Barrett when he was going after the Intercontinental Championship and was just going on a mad one because he felt that Bad New Barrett, didn’t deserve the IC title. Those are the moments I think about when thinking about how great Dean Ambrose is, that’s the Dean I feel we need back, the fight, the don’t give a crap attitude, things like that.

I realized that every single moment I talked about here when talking about Deans memorable moments, they were all from 2015…………again why!? I still believe in Dean Ambrose and I still feel like there’s still a lot left in him, I just hope that WWE creatives find something for him soon, because I hate watching Dean’s matches knowing that he’s just having matches just to have matches, I would love to see him in some kind of feud, actual feud where there’s a good story to it and to where we get to see Dean…….be Dean.

Dean deserves to have good feuding matches he can get invested in…..now who knows maybe all of what’s happening is going to lead to something good for Dean, I don’t know, I have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes, maybe right now this is what we’re getting and who knows maybe a little bit later, we might just have the best Dean Ambrose transformation before our eyes regarding where they’re going with his character…….

He was meant to be a New Dean Ambrose I know when he returned, but i’m not sure if that’s happened yet, in all honesty I missed a lot of wrestling so it probably happened already and now this is what we got, it always happens like that you miss a good amount and great things happen, you come back to it after a while and you’re seeing great things still happen, but also see room for improvements………I really want there to be a sliver-lining to where we get the best Dean we’ve ever seen (yeah I know that rhymed)

The only thing we can do is just see how his character continues to unfold, at the moment……..I don’t know what to think, sometimes Dean has really enjoyable matches and other times, it’s on the okay or could’ve been better side of town, I want to believe that Dean’s going to be treated better and I really do hope that he does, because he doesn’t deserve these random matches, he deserves matches that have something to them and are going to help his character and not destroy it…………..

Final Thoughts: Last thing before I sign out from this post, maybe Drew McIntyre will be his next feud, maybe they’ll come up with an interesting story for them, i’m just hoping that if Dean does feud with McIntyre or a different opponent, it doesn’t matter who……..I just want it to be something we not only look forward to, but also something we can get invested in………but for now we’ll just have to wait and see what happens with Dean and hopefully it’s not what everyone keeps speculating about……….I really hope it’s not that because that would be a really great talent wasted if that happens……

P.S. I almost forgot Dean won the WWE Championship at Money In The Bank 2016 after he gained the contract successfully to then later cash in on Seth who beat Roman for it in the same night, don’t know why I forgot that, I was happy when Dean got the contract and was happy when he won the title the same day………..wow

All The Love ❤ ❤

~Lexa~