#4 Dean Ambrose’s decline began
With CM Punk and Daniel Bryan gone, Dean Ambrose was in a great position to become the next big babyface in the WWE. With a crazy gimmick, really good mic skills, and a good in-ring ability to boot, Ambrose was so over that they probably could’ve put the WWE Championship on him with little to no question.
And rather than capitalising on that momentum and protecting him until his eventual WWE title shot, the WWE essentially wasted Ambrose’s potential by killing his credibility and his crazy character. Though the PG rating doesn’t make it easy, Ambrose should’ve been like he was in The Shield; an unpredictable madman.
Instead, they made him into a quirky goofball with a weird obsession of playing with food on television. And if that weren’t enough, the WWE slowly began killing his credibility by having him lose every major feud since his singles career began.
Since 2014, Ambrose has lost to the biggest names the WWE has to offer in Seth Rollins, Brock Lesnar, Triple H, and Roman Reigns. He would win the WWE Championship earlier this year, but it was a short-lived reign that didn’t fix any of the problems WWE created.
The fact that Ambrose went from getting Stone Cold Steve Austin level reactions to the average reactions he gets now is pathetic considering the potential he had.
