Dean Ambrose Talks About The Shield, Working For the WWE, and More

United States Champion Dean Ambrose was recently featured in an interview with Inland Empire Weekly. During the interview, Ambrose talks about The Shield, the differences between working for independent promotions and the WWE, being the US Champion, and more. Here are some notable quotes from Ambrose:

Differences between the Indy’s and the WWE:

“It’s a totally different ballgame,” Ambrose said of his WWE experiences compared to working independently. “You’re working for a multinational, million dollar, big corporate conglomerate. There’s a lot more things about it that make it feel like a job.  You’re not just out in the wild west doing whatever you want, you have to stay within the rules of the company and what the WWE’s about and that’s a thing you always have to be aware of.

Part of it’s working for television cameras instead of working for an audience, like a smaller audience you would find in independent or in developmental (wrestling),” Ambrose said. “I had never worked for cameras until I got here, Monday Night RAW and Pay-per-view, presenting for the audience at home. There are 15 cameras on you, doing close ups on you, switching back and forth. There’s stuff I’m still learning, trying to get better at, working for a television product as opposed to working for an audience.”

Being United States Champion:

“That’s one of those things you don’t really realize how cool it is until you hold that belt in your hands for the first time and you hear the crowd. Now for me the biggest part of it is elevating the belt. I don’t believe a championship makes a wrestler and a wrestler makes a champion. I have to raise the profile even higher than the championship and make everybody want it because I have it. I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me. I’ll create my own challenges; I want to make sure the energy is pointing to me and the United States championship. I don’t want it to be a trinket.”

On working with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns:

“Those two guys are great to work with. I couldn’t ask for better partners. We travel together, we train together, we eat, sleep, breathe and wrestle, and we brainstorm to come up with ideas on how to be better wrestlers. We have kind of an ongoing, ever evolving process. We’re making it up as we go along and once we get a little crack, doors open full steam ahead. We have a rapport; we really try to set a standard. We’re gonna work everybody every single night, every single day. That’s what we do.”

The Shield and what their “endgame” is:

“The goal, for the SHIELD is to eventually take over the circuit. Once we climb to the top of the mountain than, yeah, ideally we will be wrestling each other one day for a whole lot of money. That could definitely happen sometime in the future… I think we’ll have a hell of a long trip for justice to be served.”

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