WWE superstar Dean Ambrose recently too part in a Q&A session at the Wizard World Comic Con Pittsburgh and discussed his start in the wrestling business, whether he misses working on the independent scene and more.
Ambrose said that with respect to getting started in the wrestling business, he does not remember any particular moment when he realized that he wanted to be a wrestler and only remembers that he realized becoming a wrestler was a realistic possibility when he was a teenager stating, “I can’t remember a time when this wasn’t what I wanted to do. I can’t remember a time when wrestling wasn’t my thing that I watched. As far back as my memory goes, I was already obsessed with wrestling.” Ambrose commented on finding a wrestling school by seeing an advertisement in a program at a wrestling show in a flea market stating, “I went, that’s it, there we go, there’s a school you go to, that makes sense. It’s like being a doctor, that’s where I’m going, from then, it was off to the races.”
Ambrose said that the transition from the independent scene to the WWE was a lot like going from the WWE to the movies, as he had to learn to be more careful with his character and learn to play to the cameras and said that on the independents, he could do or say whatever he wanted and did not have to worry about it and that is not the case in the WWE. Ambrose said that in regards to the cameras, he was not concerned with them at independent events, even if he was being filmed at an independent wrestling event, whereas WWE is very much a television show and he is not just working for a live audience and with WWE, he has learned to be cognizant of things like replays stating, “If you do something cool, they are going to replay it, so you don’t want to be doing something else cool while they are doing a replay of the last cool thing that you did.”
Ambrose said that while he misses the freedom of working as an independent wrestler, he would not trade his position with WWE to go back and said that he always wanted to be a professional wrestler and that the intense, gritty, violent wrestling that he was drawn to does not really exist much anymore and with that said, he knows what sports entertainment is and sees how good it could be and expressed his excitement over being able to touch the lives of sick children.