5 Reasons Why Dean Ambrose Turned Heel

It was the most shocking heel turn in recent memory. The Lunatic Fringe, Dean Ambrose teamed up with Seth Rollins to win the highly prestigious RAW Tag Team Championships. He kept looking up the stage, making us wonder if Roman Reigns would join the fray or not. And then, he unleashed an assault on Seth Rollins.

Of course, nobody expected it to happen because of the events that transpired earlier in the night. Roman Reigns relinquished the Universal Championship owing to leukemia. Everyone expected The Shield to stand tall and triumphant at the end of the night.

Therefore, I was just as stunned as everyone else when the turn took place. However, I know why it happened and I shall detail it for you across 5 distinct points.

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#5 The unlikeliest stage for such a turn

Sadly, we won't be seeing this again in a long, long time

Roman Reigns came clean at the top of the show and admitted that he has been battling cancer for the last eleven years. It was a heartfelt and heartbreaking moment, and when the main event match was announced, we knew the drill. Ambrose and Rollins would win the tag team championships and they would celebrate with Reigns.

Only this week, none of that happened, as Ambrose turned on Rollins immediately after the match concluded. It was a stunning turn of events, because why would anyone turn heel just after he had captured the championship with the other man in the ring? This booking decision came out of the blue and surprised almost everyone in the WWE Universe.

The setting is what made the heel turn so special. On a night when everyone expected the brothers to stand tall, they crumbled.

#4 To fill the Roman Reigns void on RAW

Ambrose vs. Rollins seems to be the hot new program, going forward

RAW without Roman Reigns is seriously a scary proposition. Whether you like him or hate him, Reigns has always been a part of the mix, ruling the roost with his matches and programs. And now that there is the very real possibility that he may not be a part of the proceedings in the coming weeks. That creates a void that WWE desperately needs to fill.

Rollins and Ambrose are arguably the two top superstars in the roster, who are not named Roman Reigns. If they were to wage a war of their own, they could potentially set the WWE Universe on fire with a hard fought program. As they've proved in the past, the two men have great chemistry.

The last time around, Rollins was the heel. This time, the roles have been reversed.

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#3 To elevate the Intercontinental Championship

The workhorse title has been all but forgotten

The Intercontinental Championship was elevated greatly when The Miz was Champion. Since Rollins won the title, his reign has borne mixed results.

On one hand, he had a fantastic program with Dolph Ziggler all summer long, but on the other, the title has been sidelined ever since The Shield was reunited. This is because The Shield vs. The Dogs of War storyline took precedence.

By having Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins feud for this prestigious prize, all eyes will be on the belt once again. These two men can ensure that the title remains prestigious and like I've mentioned before, that the void formed by the departure of Roman Reigns is not felt.

When you work in a team, you generally also work great against each other. If you don't believe me, just ask Ciampa and Gargano.

#2 Weeks of storyline build

It was all leading up to this point, folks!

Now, some of you may have thought that this turn was a surprise. But let's be honest for a minute, folks. WWE has been building up to this point for some time now, and the heel turn has been in the works for some time now.

Whether it's been miscues in the ring, where Ambrose has accidentally been knocked out by a Superman punch from Roman Reigns, or McIntyre exchanging words with him backstage and convincing him to go his separate way or even when Ambrose stormed off, when Rollins called him a lunatic, WWE has spent time and effort into turning Dean Ambrose heel. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before this storyline twist actually took place.

If you thought that the heel turn came out of the blue, you haven't being paying much attention. This was bound to happen!

#1 Ambrose has never had a solid heel run

And now it's time for him to unleash his darker side, at last!

Dean Ambrose was a heel when he first made his way to WWE, as a member of The Shield. But since then, he's played the part of the lovable lunatic and really never had a chance to show off the darker aspect of his persona. This week, we saw him finally snap and take the attack to Rollins. This allows him to finally show off just how unhinged he can be.

A lunatic character demands a heel persona. Whether you look at Marty The Moth from Lucha Underground or even Mankind in the mid-90s, both of those characters seemed absolutely at their best when they played heels. Ambrose has a chance to launch his career into orbit mode again.

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