Ambrose, Rollins and Reigns: Who has come the farthest?

Dean Ambrose

Over with the fans, but not as successful as the rest: Dean Ambrose

Ambrose has had the worst pay-per-view record of the three, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t the most over with the crowd. Since Money In The Bank 2014, Ambrose had lost every pay-per-view match he had participated in.

He came up short against Rollins in all their bouts, lost to Wyatt in every match, made it to the final four of the Royal Rumble this year only to be eliminated, lost to Bad News Barrett at FastLane, and lost at WrestleMania as well. It wasn’t until Extreme Rules, in a street fight against Luke Harper, that Ambrose picked up his first win on pay-per-view.

After that he lost again at Payback in a Fatal Four Way for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, but he did pin Rollins at Elimination Chamber, only to have controversy get in his way. So technically, he has held no championship so far in his run outside of The SHIELD, even though he stole both the Intercontinental and WWE World Heavyweight Championships.

Despite having main evented four, soon to be five, pay-per-views, it’s Ambrose’s short-comings and lack of gold that put him below his former partners from The SHIELD, but this is only so far. There is still a lot to come from Dean Ambrose, and he’s a future world champion without a doubt.

Dean Ambrose running away with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Elimination Chamber

Roman Reigns

Roman Reigns setting up his Superman Punch

Controversial as always, Roman Reigns can boast that he was the first of the three to main event WrestleMania, in his hard-hitting, violent match against Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. However, he wouldn’t want to boast that he was unsuccessful, losing not to Lesnar, but to Rollins.

While in The SHIELD, Reigns was the most popular member, mostly because of his sheer strength and look. After the SHIELD split, however, those were the same reasons he was disliked, along with his somewhat limited in-ring skills and constantly criticised microphone skills. Whichever way you look at it though, Reigns is trying as hard as he can, and he is improving in every way.

One other thing which is criticised of Reigns is that he kept The SHIELD’s entrance and music. But in all honesty, this isn’t an issue. The way Reigns has been booked as of late shows that he is destined to be a world champion one day, even if it was already supposed to happen.

Roman Reigns walking out after his loss at WrestleMania