3 reasons why Drew McIntyre decimated Dean Ambrose in the main event of RAW this week

The main event of the latest episode of RAW was nothing short of incredible. We saw an outstanding "Falls Count Anywhere" fight between The Lunatic Fringe Dean Ambrose and The Scottish Psychopath Drew McIntyre.

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The match had everything - a brilliant array of hardcore brawls throughout the bout, some fantastic spots and even a poke with a pencil on the eyes. It would be an enormous understatement if we said that this match was one of the best main events of RAW. So if you have not watched it till now, do view it as soon as possible.

Ambrose wanted to take revenge on McIntyre for attacking Roman Reigns before Reigns' scheduled fight against Baron Corbin. Even though the match had a steady pace at first, with both McIntyre and Ambrose getting even offense in the first half of the clash, it was an all McIntyre show towards the end of the match. McIntyre poked in the eyes of Ambrose using a pencil, followed by a couple of Snake's eyes on the LED screen, followed by a brutal Claymore kick to end the bout.

In this thread, we will take a look at a few reasons why McIntyre decimated the Lunatic Fringe.

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#3 To write Ambrose off of WWE TV

It has been announced by WWE that Ambrose is already on his way out and is not interested in a contract negotiation.

Ambrose will fulfill his contractual obligations and will leave WWE once his contract expires this April. Thus, WWE has no options but to write Ambrose off of WWE TV, rather than having him disappear suddenly out of nowhere.

WWE previously had taken many WWE Superstars out of TV before releasing them and had faced a lot of backlash for it. Thus writing Ambrose off was the best way going forward.

#2 To project Drew McIntyre as a sadistic monster heel

Drew McIntyre may replace Brock Lesnar as the top heel of the company.

Even though he had to spend some ridiculous amount of time aligning with random heels of RAW to battle the Shield, Drew McIntyre is still one of the top heels on RAW.

Once Brock Lesnar says goodbye to WWE for good, they may look forward to ascending the Scottish Psychopath as the top heel of the company on the Red Brand.

Thus, to make him look credible, WWE had to push McIntyre to destroy a top babyface of the company - someone like Dean Ambrose.

Since Ambrose was already on his way out of the company, there was nothing for him to lose anyway. Hence, WWE decided to have McIntyre brutally destroy Ambrose - a classical method of a departing Superstar giving the rub to someone who needs it.

#1 To prepare Drew McIntyre for a Wrestlemania match against Roman Reigns

Could we see these two square off at WrestleMania 35?

Drew McIntyre is one of the best workers in WWE and fits the physique of a perfect WWE guy. Thus Vince McMahon and co will be certainly planning to put the Scottish Psychopath to test at Wrestlemania 35.

Of all the Superstars who could be McIntyre's potential Wrestlemania opponent, Roman Reigns would be the most appropriate one.

WWE already had numerous staredowns between the two behemoths - at WWE Live shows. However, the duo did not have a regular singles match since McIntyre made his return to a WWE ring.

Reigns has a brilliant Wrestlemania record to his name and defeated the likes of Triple H and The Undertaker at the Showcase of the Immortals.

Thus to build McIntyre up in time for Wrestlemania for Roman, WWE could have used Dean Ambrose to put McIntyre over.