Breaking: Dean Ambrose leaving WWE confirmed (Update - Pg. 2)
 

Biggest news story Wade Keller has broken in some time

AEW CHAMPION JON MOXLEY

the benefit WWE has with Ambrose going to AEW is that they've murdered him dead, so nobody will care.

I doubt that. He's nowhere near Dolph Ziggler territory.

he was one of the more pushed guys, that was a surprise. his contract was up at the right time an good places to make money. wonder what other big surprise contracts are about up. I do not see aj styles leaving

This feels more like an angle continue off last night.

They completely screwed up what could have been the biggest rivalry of last year/going into this year and to be fair he hasn’t looked like he’s totally into it which hasn’t helped with the quality of his matches or promos.
Makes sense for him to leave with good money to be made outside of WWE now.

I had a weird feeling something was up last night when he was still in the ring and he started saying "When I first signed with WWE....." then Nia Jax's music hit.

Not sure he’ll go to AEW. For some reason I have a weird feeling he might just be done with wrestling altogether.

He's terrible

I wonder when Renee's contract is up?

He's been booked like shit for a long time, surprised his fire lasted as long as it did.

His selling is atrocious. It's never gotten better.

Very excited by this news. For AEW, NJPW, Or ROH to get one of the top WWE stars is HUGE. Going ahead to assume that he won’t wind up in Impact.

When everyone was out injured, I thought the time period where Dean was the top face and Seth was the top heel in WWE was pretty fantastic.

It wasn't until around WM32 when Brock decided he wasn't interested in his match w/ Dean that things started to cool off a bit for Dean. Shame too, because Brock vs Dean could have been terrific if Brock had felt up for it.

lol the way he sold the Curb Stomp on Raw were the actions of a man that doesn't give a shit

Good, maybe if enough guys leave for this exact reason WWE writers will stop being so lazy and booking everybody as one dimensional.

Also though, I think Droford might be right. The fact that during the commercial break he was still doing his "I need a shower cause of you dirty Phoenix people" seems out of place if he is out the door.

I am skeptical, but excited either way, him gone to AEW would be another huge get for them, or if this is an angle maybe they can make an interesting story out of it.

I honestly don't think the writers are lazy. I just think the turnover rate is so high it's impossible to maintain any form of continuity, plus what they do doesn't really matter because Vince usually just changes everything.

At the end of the day, half of the roster could leave and nothing will change because at 70-plus-years-old, the guy who makes the decisions is set in his ways.

That is also true, but I can't imagine the writers are coming up with a bunch of good stuff and Vince is shutting them down left and right. If anything the writers aren't trying to come up with anything good, and just doing generic stuff because it's easy.

I forget which former WWE wrestler said it not long ago, but someone said aside from like 3 writers the rest don't do anything at all, are just yes men.

Did you miss how he got eliminated from the rumble? It was like a piece out of michaels vs hogan. :lol:

wow, i was pretty shocked to read this today. you hear of the mid card guys leaving all the time, but this one is pretty crazy because i know they offered him a ton of money to resign. Good for him though. he can go anywhere he wants and get paid and will have much more liberties outside of the E.

Ever since Ambrose started wearing the tank tops and doing the bland babyface shtick is when i tired of him. he just hasn't beenthe same since then. and it's a shame because i know he's the type of guy that can come up with his own material and kill it out there. the writers failed him.

Makes alot of sense after seeing how he was eliminated at Royal Rumble....

yep

I dont think Dean was trying to pipe bomb last night and got interrupted. Smells like a work.

I'm convinced he doesn't know how to sell. He either doesn't sell at all or over-exaggerates.

I think you've brainwashed me but I fully agree. There's a reason Ambrose comes up short performance-wise ALL THE TIME on the big stage.

Hey now, Ambrose sold the Curb Stomp for over 15 minutes to close out a live show a few months ago. Just straight up laid face down in the ring as the crew deconstructed around him lol

You guys are being worked lol

worked or not -- I still don't care about Dean Ambrose.

I cared about Dean Ambrose until his recent heel turn and change of look/character, which has killed him off so much for me that I no longer care when he is on screen or care to see him.

Yeah some guys really need a change of scenery, and Ambrose is one of them.

Oh well, I have to find a new favourite now after he goes, looking forward to see Jon Moxley tearing AEW or Impact apart

He just doesn't have the "it" factor. His level is where he's at.

dean is the best dude they got not named bray wyatt, kevin owens or paul heyman. smells like a work.

It's what happens when you refuse to improve.

lol what the fuck?

Hows life in 2015?

lolllllllllllll Bray Wyatt

wonder when Bray Wyatt will get back from the Springfield Mystery Spot

Pretty sure Bray isn't injured, just creative has had "nothing for him" since Matt Hardy took leave.

To be fair, whenever they do have "something" for Bray it will likely consists of Bray cutting a great promo and then losing every match in the entire feud.

Oh no, nervous now they will do Bray vs DBry at WM and kill DBry's momentum

Bryan with Rowan vs. Wyatt with Harper

Special Ref Randy Orton

First Ever 'House of Horrors' WM match

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE statement on Dean Ambrose: &quot;Dean Ambrose (Jonathan Good) will not be renewing his contract with WWE when it expires in April. We are grateful and appreciative of all that Dean has given to WWE and our fans. We wish him well and hope that one day Dean will return to WWE.”</p>&mdash; Wrestling Observer (@WONF4W) <a href="https://twitter.com/WONF4W/status/1090358137973104648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE has confirmed to media that Dean Ambrose won't be staying with WWE after April.</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1090359056781533184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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So presumably that means the crowd may well shit on his match at Mania?

hmm

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No, in fact often when I ask about the status of a wrestler or employee, WWE will say that they &quot;don't publicly discuss the contractual or employment status&quot; of so and so. <a href="https://t.co/mcTSViSIGv">https://t.co/mcTSViSIGv</a></p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1090360542324244480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I wonder if it's different in this case b/c they are high on Renee Young and want to keep things open down the road via Shield Reunions seemingly being $$$ for them in terms of merch/ratings/so forth.

or it's a work... will be v evident if they address it in storylines.

I found it very weird when they issued a statement on Ronda. They NEVER do stuff like that. Very hush-hush when it comes to contracts

It feels like he is resigning after taking time off. I can't remember WWE flat out talking about somebody's contract coming to an end since CM Punk in 2011.

Everything about this feels like Vince's response to all the "who is asking for a release/going to AEW" buzz.

I'm sure on next weeks Raw Graves and Cole will be bugging Renee about it on commentary, which if this was real they surely wouldn't be promoting the fact he is leaving and may go to the competition.

she would be like mickey james while hubby is nwa champ she is wwe. kind of like to see moxley wrestle magnes now.

Seems like a work to get AEW all hot in the pants.

Feelz like a work now

My sources tell me Dean walked into his bedroom and found Renee giving Corey Graves a rimjob.

Not sure Nia would even be down for that

She was just gonna kiss Graves, but then saw his hands say "stay down", so down she went.

WWE giving a statement like that about his pending release does cast some doubt about it being real but either way, they've bungled him the most out of the Shield guys.

When the group first formed, the popular opinion around the net was Dean would find instant success because he was the complete package of the trio, then Roman because he had the look Vince wanted, and then Rollins much later in a Jeff Hardy-like path. Instead WWE went backwards which ended up hurting Ambrose the most.

yeah I remember when he had the us belt for a year and rarely defended it killed him and the title.

Renee is probably pissed.

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Total work.

IDK about that

WWE responded to media like a week ago confirming Ronda's contract ends in April 2021. Might be a new policy.

I doubt he will go to AEW if Joey Ryan is there. He hates that goofy shit.

STD, please cease from posting.

You don't like the truth?

Every time STD mentions Joey Ryan take a shot

you add nothing of value to any conversation. You just parrot the opinion of other "experts" and you show time and time again that you know virtually nothing about wrestling.

I love STD

you have stds.

I'm clean right now, thank you very much.

you have sex with nia jax and like it

I likely would enjoy it if I did.

Good for him. Weird that they mentioned it, but what is the point of it being a work? Have people forgotten that working is supposed to lead to something?

I'm not sure where he goes really. He's not that great of a worker. Neither is Cody Rhodes and look where he is so what do I know.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Dean Ambrose (Jonathan Good) will not be renewing his contract with WWE when it expires in April. <a href="https://t.co/RdxZmUXyuK">https://t.co/RdxZmUXyuK</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1090373494993498117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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His spat with HHH...just not gonna believe it.

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Cody Rhodes is decent and knows how to present himself. So he gets away with being otherwise quite bland.

I look forward to the eventual Brandi Rhodes movie brought to us by The Rock.

Gonna laugh when Dean goes over HHH at Mania.

Fightful and other sites reporting Hideo Itami has asked for and been granted his release as well.

Hideo is ridiculously limited now. I wanted to see him face D Bry once before he left.

i believe Itami but Ambrose smells like a work.

Would explain the sudden change he made to his Twitter profile photo recently which then led to the speculation of him wanting out of the WWE.

Gran Metalik pulled a similar stunt via a tweet that teased he wanted out.

Can someone please explain what benefit there is to this being a work? Like, is there any? Let's say that Ambrose signs with WWE in April -- doesn't he look like a fuckwit for doing this whole "walking out of the company" thing? At best, doesn't it feel like a weak re-tread of the CM Punk stuff? If he beats Triple H at WrestleMania, it's just a Triple H vs. Ambrose match. I don't get what possible reason there would be to release a statement to the media that says that Ambrose is going, leading to people making a stir about AEW and all that. Hell, Ambrose might even get "All Elite" or "AEW" chants of that throughout this hypothetically worked program. What is the point of that?

More likely, as John Pollock pointed out, is that WWE received so many questions from actual people in the media about it, and to keep good channels of communication open, they've come clean and reported the truth. Ronda Rousey got all that attention too and WWE came out and spoke about her contract status. Occam's razor really suggest that Ambrose has probably said I'm definitely going, WWE has been asked about it, so they've done a statement that sounds amicable.

If anything is a work, it seems more reasonable that it would be WWE trying to maintain a good relationship with Dean Ambrose so he doesn't look like such a babyface for sticking it to them.

This reminds me of when Jeff Jarrett left the WWF in 1999, and WWF.com were releasing all those sweet-talking statements about what a gentleman and stand-up guy Jeff Jarrett was. It was to get him into the buildings and doing business heading into the show.

Would love it if KENTA and Gran Metalik left too. I imagine Metalik's contract must be coming up, because he was polling people as to whether he should go to CMLL or AAA or something. :lol:

As for KENTA being limited, I wonder how much of that is just WWE-style and him being, perhaps, really unhappy in that company. I just heard recently that WWE actually let him work the Pro Wrestling NOAH 20th Anniversary Show, which shocked the hell out of me. But apparently he had an excellent match with Naomichi Marufuji? I'm yet to see it.

I just said this to Slik and RoXer.

He's really bland and boring.

Kenta sucked in WWE until that four-way at the Rumble. He was awesome. I’m glad for
him to leave because you can see how this run has poorly affected him. Hopefully he gets back to NOAH and maybe even NJPW.

They’re actually really similar in that regard. Ambrose has way more charisma and personality than the typical generic indy guy. If this is legit, I’m actually excited to see him get to work outside of the creative black hole that is WWE.

He had a banger with Aleister Black too.

Has he spoke on the “goofy shit” or are you just assuming? Because I actually do remember him doing an interview where he talked about not taking wrestling too seriously.

When i first saw this I thought this guy is going to be the savior of wrestling . :(


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Yeah they nerfed his promos big time on the main roster. Calling him the "Lunatic Fringe" never felt fitting unlike when he was actually playing a believable crazy person on the indies.

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a corporate branded name such as thelunaticfringedeanambrose doesn't really scream authentic crazy person.

Somebody on twitter said something about it. Can't find it now.