DEAN AMBROSE ON WORKING WITH ROLLINS, MEMORIES OF PIPER, MORE
- 08/30/2015 (12:24:47 am)
- Bob Mulrenin
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Today The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling takes a walk on the side of lunacy as we welcome WWE Superstar, "The Lunatic Fringe" Dean Ambrose. Ambrose clawed his way to WWE with a fearless career on the independent scene, absorbing and dishing out punishment in equal measure. He competed in violent environments and unmanageably sacrificed his body with the goal of inflicting as much damage on his opponent as humanly possible. Now as we wind down 2015 and look ahead, we look back with Dean on his affinity for Rowdy Roddy Piper, his feuds with Bray Wyatt and Seth Rollins and what is next for a possible future WWE Champion. We are also joined by Dean Ambrose's trainer Les Thatcher and hear directly from him the kind of student Ambrose was and what he thinks of the progress Dean has shown thus far in his career. Thatcher is also quite outspoken about the current state of WWE, NXT and the overall 2015 wrestling product.Full Episode Download Link:
Dean Ambrose on His Memories of Rowdy Roddy
Piper:
How does his preparation
differ from other stars in the WWE:
I like to take things moment
to moment. I don't try to be anything that I'm not because that would be
in-authentic and I was blessed with certain talents and certain abilities and
others I wasn't. I try to do things I do and do them well and I don't try to
pretend to be anything that I'm not. If I'm in a bad mood, your gonna get Dean
Ambrose in a bad mood. If I'm in a good mood your gonna get happy, fun Dean
Ambrose that day. I would literally take whatever I'm feeling, that's just what
you will see in the ring. I like to just be myself and I just go out there and
kind of just do whatever I want to my own devices and it's kind of just not just
the fans but WWE slowly realized another Dean Ambrose isn't going to walk
through the door anytime soon. So I kind of occupy my own space and kind of
carve out my own little spot. Fans don't want to tune in and see you do the same
things every week and when they hear your music for me they like to think that
any wild thing may happen when I come through the curtain because sometimes I
don't know. I make as much up as I possibly can as I go along.
Memories of Rowdy Roddy
Piper:
Everybody loves Roddy Piper.
There's so many of these shocking out of nowhere passings and it's so weird
because these are the guys that my generation grew up watching, it sucks.
Everybody loves The Hot Rod and my favorite Roddy Piper memory is a very
specific one because I recently not too long ago watched it. Starrcade 96 when
he fought Hogan for the Championship when he came back to WCW, it was a
terrible, sloppy match with two old guys but awesome and was such a spectacle.
The cool part of it was his entrance. One of the best entrances you will ever
see if you really watch it and you are into the story and you really watch what
he is doing, it's like this death march to the ring. You have this on-going
decade long blood-feud with Hogan and he knows that he is going to get beat up
by the nWo and ganged up on 20-1 and it's a one man war against the nWo and he's
just coming down the aisle as simple as can be, no flashy entrance or
pyrotechnics. In WWE everyone has the special entrance. In NXT they have a dance
move that they do and they get in the ring the same way every time and its like
their schtick. It was so refreshing to go back and watch that because he comes
out and just stares at the ring and burns a hole with his eyes and walks down
the aisle as simple as humanly possible. His eyes are just cold and it just
tells so much, you know he is willing to go in there in the middle of that ring.
He is going to fight to the end. If he walks away with the championship, cool
but he's prepared for this to be the end. It's very intense and most people who
watch it wouldn't put that much thought into it but get on WWE Network, watch
Starrcade 96 and just watch Piper's entrance it's such a cool
thing.
Comparison to Superstars like
Piper, Terry Funk and Brian Pillman:
I really can't answer that
because I try not to put any thought into what I am doing. I go by what I feel,
whatever happens, happens. I think a lot of those guys probably thought the same
way.
Why does he work so well with
Seth Rollins:
Our styles just meshed well.
First time we ever wrestled was in FCW. We never crossed paths before. It was
maybe one of the first times that people started to pay attention to what was
going on in Developmental just from a wrestling standpoint. I had a certain
following and he had kind of ran with a different crowd on the indy scene like
Ring of Honor and it kind of was a clash of indy worlds happening in
Developmental. It just clicked immediately. I felt that stuff that he did was
complimenting the stuff that I did. The stretching and they physical stuff in
the holds, it was such a phsyical style I was doing at the time and just kind of
meshed with his and it was like peanut butter and jelly, like mixed perfectly
together the stuff that we were doing. He is such a smart guy and visualizes and
comes up with cool things and then you have just the way that I would like go
off-the-cuff a lot of times, we could go out and wrestle thirty minuets and
literally not talk at all before hand, it just meshes well and then you know
WWE styles still mesh and it's hard to explain. There's just that certain
chemistry with people. He's so good, its like anyone can have a good match with
Seth Rollins and we kind of bring out the best in each other from a healthy
competitive standpoint and all the great opponents always had that together like
Ric Flair/Ricky Steamboat and Nick Bockwinkel/ Verne Gagne.
Is their any one specific WWE
Superstar looking to bring down the house:
I think all of the core group
of guys right now, myself, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Cesaro, The Wyatts I
think we all have that competitive chemistry with each other because we are kind
of pushing each other and we are the guys kind of carrying the load right now as
far as 300 nights a year. We are the guys who are counted on to tear the house
down and wrestle 15-20 minuets on Raw each week and I think that's a real
healthy thing across the board.
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