9 Greatest WWE promos of the past decade
Promos play a very consequential part in building up a rivalry in wrestling. Being able to talk on the mic and increase the hype for a match that had no prior intrigue is truly remarkable. There have been a significant amount of exceptional promos over the last decade in WWE, narrowing it down to 9 is no easy challenge, but I’ve managed to put it together.
This list is completely based on the promos I think are good enough to earn a place. I'm sure your list might be a little different. I am letting you know that this will not involve CM Punk's Pipebomb because that is an obvious choice and can easily take the number one spot. This will not include Daniel Bryan's return speech in 2018 or Ultimate Warrior's last in-ring promo either. As astounding as both segments were, they came straight from the heart.
So let's start this list with a Dean Ambrose promo.
#9 I've been doing this for way too long to be scared of Marketing
This promo came in a week before Ambrose was being scheduled to face Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns at Fastlane 2016. Michael Cole interviewed him in a WWE.com exclusive where he asked him about Brock Lesnar.
Ambrose replied that Lesnar is a cool guy, he likes him, but he's starting to get pissed off about the marketing of the Beast, is he supposed to be scared? And then he goes on about how Lesnar will keep dumping him on his head, but he will keep getting up every time.
Let's take a look at an excerpt from the promo:
"Can Brock break me in half with his bare hands? Yeah, there is a good possibility that I get eaten alive, but you know what happens though? I get dumped over my head, forty-fifty times but I keep getting back up, and he starts to get tired, and the 300 pounds start to feel really heavy, and he starts to wonder why this isn't working? All those years of injuries from all those years of combat starts to creep up on him, and that's when he gets his fingers broken, and that's when he gets his ankles broken and when his eyeballs are dangling above the mat, he starts to wonder maybe I've taken Dean Ambrose a little bit more seriously".
What an amazing promo it really was. It sells Dean as the never-say-die guy who could pull out a win against any odds. I really wish this is how his match against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania actually went. They should have booked it in a way where Ambrose put on a fight and looks as if he can win, and then Lesnar has to completely murder-stomp him to win.