Chairs seem to have become Ambrose's new friends

The spoilers for this week’s Smackdown are already out. Hulk Hogan opens the show and a tag team match is set for the main event. Hold your horses. Hulk Hogan is not wrestling. After his Santa Claus stint, it’s better for the creative team to not repeat that. Ever. Again.

Another spoiler is that Dean Ambrose defeated Rusev by disqualification after Bray Wyatt interfered but the Lunatic Fringe wasn’t out and held down by that attack. He bounced back and attacked Wyatt with a chair shot and then began throwing chairs around just like we’ve seen him do many times before.

Not only does it continue the trend that Rusev has set for himself without losing by pinfall or submission, but it seems like winning or losing by disqualification or laying out a pile of chairs has become Ambrose’s forte. It seems all of it has become an extension of Ambrose’s gimmick.

This might be the trademark for his character.

Character Quirk

This seems like a good addition as this accentuates Ambrose’s loose cannon personality. It isn’t funny. Ambrose is out there to cause destruction. Just like Triple H’s sledgehammer, chairs have become Ambrose’s new friends. Many great wrestlers are recognized by some of these props that are used during a wrestling match. Mick Foley is synonymous with a steel cage, Regal is synonymous with a brass ring, Jeff Hardy and Edge have ladders and the Dudleys had tables.

Ambrose has been seen many times throwing a pile of chairs inside the ring and putting his opponents through them or going through them himself.

Even though Ambrose has lost most of his PPV matches via pinfall, it hasn’t really affected his popularity. It seems that losing doesn’t really affect his character. People know that he’ll get back up and he still has an impact despite losing the match.

The essence of professional wrestling is not the outcome of a particular match but the build up to it.

Ambrose, throughout his solo run, has been spectacular in his ‘Lunatic Fringe’ character. He is old school in his mannerism or wrestling moves which is very much taking one back to the ‘Golden Era’ of wrestling, he is an anti-hero which is a characteristic that emerged before and during the Attitude Era and all this talk is about a wrestler who is performing in the modern era. Dean Ambrose is an amalgamation of a lot essential ingredients or as he calls himself ‘a weird mixture’ thanks to him watching so much of wrestling.

Opportunities galore

So, having him use chairs and get disqualified is not really a bad idea. It shouldn’t be overplayed, though. It should work as long as people recognize the fact that Ambrose will get a chair into the ring and try to get himself disqualified or decimate his partner so that he could win the match.

It should be like the moment Triple gets outside the ring to get a sledgehammer or when Bubba Dudley says, “D-Von get the table”.

This extension has tremendous potential in building some depth into Ambrose’s character. Remember that the Shield’s split happened at the hands of Seth Rollins, specifically by Rollins ramming Dean Ambrose with many chair shots. There can be a connection made there. It might sound cheesy but WWE is all about melodrama and Ambrose can make anything work with his promos. 

So forget about his win-loss record, forget about the fact that he’s been pinned but do remember that he’s never submitted in his singles career and he’s never, as the old adage for a virtuous hero goes, given up.

It is something that the WWE should explore if they haven’t thought about it.