Dean Ambrose On Being Met With Laziness From Brock Lesnar, His Relationship With Vince McMahon, More

We’re live from backstage at RAW in Anaheim with WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin and guest WWE Champion Dean Ambrose. They start off with some talk about music and Austin asks about Ambrose growing up in Cincinnati. Ambrose talks about how his dad lived out of state, he lived with his sister and mom in an apartment and their mom worked all night. Ambrose says he and sister kind of figured out how to do things on their own, like make macaroni and cheese. He says they kind of wandered the streets, met people and did their own thing, they became really independent. Ambrose enjoyed that part of his upbringing and who it made him into. His dad lived out of state for a job and mentions that his mother somewhat recently quit her factory job and that’s the greatest accomplishment of his career. Austin asks if Ambrose had a happy childhood and he says he did. Austin asks about growing up in public housing and Ambrose says that’s true but he was happy. Ambrose talks about how he was good in school and how it came easy to him.

Austin keeps bringing up Ambrose’s dad, sort of reaching and making for a few somewhat awkward moments. Ambrose mentions dropping out of school at an early age. Ambrose says he doesn’t remember a time when wrestling wasn’t his favorite thing. To him, it was this perfect, cool world where big guys fought bad guys, a world you wanted to be in when you sat in front of the TV. Ambrose missed the Hulkamania era and Bret Hart would’ve been on top when he started watching. Ambrose always loved Bret when he was a kid, because he was a cagey son of a b—h. His endurance and technical prowess was always impressive to Ambrose. Ambrose says he always had a feeling in the back of his mind that he could do this and be a pretty good pro wrestler if he ever had the opportunity. He became more obsessed with wrestling as he got older, not with just watching what was on TV but scouring stores for tapes. He admitted to shoplifting a bunch of tapes when he was younger. He would apologize to Blockbuster but but they’re no longer around and can’t come after him. He talks about getting Japanese tapes, learning about NWA and WCW, reading the magazines and everything else. Ambrose says he loved ECW and that hit him at the perfect time, around age 12 or 13. Austin sees Terry Funk in Ambrose at times. Ambrose says he loved the ECW version of Funk.

Austin asks who mentored Ambrose and he names Les Thatcher’s school in Ohio, and Cody Hawk of their HWA promotion. He talks about sweeping floors and selling popcorn for two years until he was 18, old enough to train. Austin asks about Ambrose getting away from the business at one point and Ambrose asks if he’s getting his information from the internet. There were rough times on the indies and he did question a future in the business. He ended up in Puerto Rico and that’s where he learned to be vicious. He knew he might not become famous or rich but he decided he would put together a great body of work because he knew was a good wrestler and when he went with that attitude, that’s when things took off. He says that was around 2008 and WWE was his ultimate goal from the start. He recalls watching RAW at times and thinking he was good enough to be right there wrestling John Cena. Ambrose told himself he would just go and be as good as the WWE guys, but over there, and he believes that’s the attitude …

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