Dean Ambrose was the special guest on the Stone Cold podcast that aired after Monday Night Raw last night and, naturally, they talked about his match against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 32 earlier this year.
Something something, shots fired:
Dean calling Brock lazy in their WM match. pic.twitter.com/RyIIdcSNWu
— DTAM (@DeathToAllMarks) August 9, 2016
Austin: "You go in there to face Brock Lesnar. What are you thinking out there... he's a freaking Beast. So how was that feeling for you? And certainly you were an underdog in that match."
Ambrose: "It was pretty cool, you know? I went to the ring that night pretty pissed off. And then ... as I walked to the ring I had no idea what was going to happen. Went out there with not much of a plan, so to speak. ... I felt like I was pulling teeth to turn that match into something epic and so forth."
Austin: "Was it a disconnect in styles, artistically, in the ring?"
Ambrose: "Yeah. Artistically, Brock didn't want to do anything. ... Because, you know, Brock's gonna Brock, he's all about Brock. I had a vision for that match to be the craziest thing imaginable. I was trying to pitch everything to everybody and had every idea and I just put so much effort in and so much work in -- and other people did too -- and I was met with laziness. I just kept thinking 'at the end of the day, once we get in the ring it's all going to be okay. We'll figure it out once we get in the ring.' Then we went out there, we whacked each other with weapons, I got suplexed a bunch of times. It's an invigorating feeling walking to the ring knowing that you're going out there with a man that can kill you with his bare hands in front of 100,000 people and you have no idea what's going to happen. It's pretty cool, you know? I live for moments like that. So it was a hell of a day, I tell ya."
His honesty is refreshing and, really, one need look no further than the match itself to see he’s being truthful. It’s also entirely likely that Lesnar simply doesn’t share Ambrose’s philosophy on professional wrestling, even in a spot like that. Maybe one day we’ll get Brock’s side of the story.
We can only hope.