In an interview with Trib Live Sports, Dean Ambrose spoke about being
unpredictable and revealed that he didn’t like John Cena’s act. Here are the
highlights…
On being compared to Brian Pillman, Roddy Piper and Stone Cold Steve
Austin: “You’re always going to get comparisons. Everybody comes out
and says he’s the next so and so or he reminds me of so and so. The thing with
me is I’ve studied so much wrestling, so many wrestlers, so many eras and styles
for so long. My entire life has been dedicated to being obsessed with this. I
have so many influences and stuff in my brain, who knows what’s going to pop in
and come out. I don’t really try to pattern myself after any particular person.
I pretty much make it up as I go along.
On not being predictable: “There’s a lot of guys in WWE,
you would know who they are, you know you’re going to see the same thing every
single match. You know you’re going to hear the same thing every time they pick
up a microphone. You know John Cena is never going to get mad at you no matter
what you do. You could steal his dog or set his house on fire and he’s not going
to get all that mad at you. He’s going to come out and do the same thing he
always does. Me, I’m not like that. I get pretty upset pretty quickly. I don’t
like having an entrance or anything like that too set in stone. A lot of guys
come out and have the exact little dance or exact little thing that goes off at
the right time with the pyro. What if I’m not in the mood to do my little dance
this week?”
On the Attitude era: “I don’t like my wrestling or
entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I
say clean, I’m not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like
that. I’m actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the
attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and
over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke
about a woman’s breasts. Hilarious, but where’s the wrestling? I look back on a
lot of stuff now, and I’m like where’s the wrestling? It’s just a lot of crappy
jokes.”
