Mick Foley Comments on Dean Ambrose Using Double-Arm DDT

At the conclusion of “Monday Night Raw” on Oct. 6, the first two matches of the 2014 “Hell in a Cell” pay-per-view were made. Per The Authority, Dean Ambrose and John Cena will go one-on-one at the pay-per-view, with the winner facing Seth Rollins in one of presumably two matches that take place in the cell structure.

Later that week, on the special 15th anniversary “Smackdown” show, another stipulation for the Ambrose vs. Cena bout was made. On MizTV, Miz announced that those two will compete in a Contract on a Pole match, which is also contested under No Holds Barred rules. The contract is for the right to face Seth Rollins in the main event of “Hell in a Cell.”

At the end of the aforementioned “Raw” segment, with only Cena and Ambrose in the ring, Ambrose laid Cena out with an all too familiar move. Ambrose hit a double-arm DDT, a move prominently used by Mick Foley during his run in WWE, on Cena.

Foley took to his Facebook page to comment on Ambrose using the move:

“THE AMBROSE DDT

I’ve been asked so many times since WWE Monday Night Raw – literally dozens…and dozens of times – how I feel about Dean Ambrose – WWE using the Mick Foley #DoubleArmDDT at the conclusion of the show.

Easy answer: I love it! Besides, it’s not exactly MY DDT, anyway, I saw a young Kenta Kobashi (who went on to become an all-time great in our business) using it on a 1991 tour doe All-Japan wrestling, and thought “I can pull that off!” And so I did. I wish Dean nothing but the best with it, and hope it’s a regular part of his arsenal on his rocket-ride to the top of WWE.

I’m flattered any time I see a WWE Superstar or Diva borrow anything from the Foley library – be it a move, a phrase, or just the idea of giving fans their money’s worth each time they step into the ring.”

Editor’s Note

Awesome. I still wonder how good the possible Ambrose-Foley feud would have been.