Dean Ambrose Talks Wrestlemania 32, Preparing For Brock Lesnar, Being Compared To Wrestling Legends

WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose recently spoke with Ted Gruber for FanSided while promoting this weekend’s Wrestlemania 32 event in Texas.

Ambrose talks about preparing for the event and his opponent, Brock Lesnar, comparisons to other wrestling legends such as Terry Funk, and more. You can read a few excerpts below: 

Dean Ambrose talks about how he’s preparing to face Brock Lesnar: 

Fighting Brock Lesnar is different than fighting anyone else on the earth. He’s a freak of nature and a destructive force. Even having a physical confrontation with him is like having a match. Compared to a Hell in the Cell, TLC, Last Man Standing or any gimmick you want to throw out there being in the ring with him is different. The things he can do to you with his skill set and physical attributes it’s the most vicious thing he can do to you.

I’m trying to live life to the fullest. That’s just how I roll. You don’t know what feeling alive is like until you put yourself until you are put in a danger of death. I don’t know how it came about, but it seems like my entire life I’ve been searching for the most dangerous match possible and I think I may have found it.

In terms of preparing for this, I don’t there is anything you can do. I don’t think people understand how the kind of mental state you have to be in to go into a Street Fight with Brock Lesnar. With 100,000 people at the arena and the millions watching on the WWE Network, I don’t think I have gotten there yet. You gotta be like screw it and whatever happens, happens. I embrace the thought of living close to the edge. For me, it could be a long night but it could be the ultimate thrill or ultimate rush. I might be executed in front of the world and it’s pretty hilarious. It’s a crazy scenario and it gets me all excited just thinking about it.

I’m ready to go 24/7, that’s my thing. He’s eat, sleep, suplex, repeat but I’ve been the workhorse for the company the last year. I haven’t had time to train or relax because I’m wrestling and getting beat up every single day. I am in a constantly in a state of readiness. I’m constantly throwing punches, getting thrown around and the difference is doing it in a different location. So in some ways, it’s the same things I’ve been doing every single day.

Ambrose comments on comparisons to other wrestling legends: 

Everybody keeps comparing me to different type of people. I don’t try to be like anyone currently, or anyone previously. I don’t try to copy and mold myself as somebody that was here before me. I throw a lot of punches so they say I’m Stone Cold, I can absorb an enormous amount of pain so they call me Mick Foley. I like to yell and scream and don’t have a filter on my mouth, so I’m Terry Funk. People will call me crazy and nuts, so I’m Brian Pillman. That’s all good and fine but I’m doing what I do. I don’t try to be anything other than myself. I look in the mirror every day knowing that I’m doing things for me and no one else.

I like to think that it’s pretty nice that I get a lot of compliments from the old school guys. I think they know I’m a little of an old school guy myself and they see a little bit of what old school wrestling used to be.

It was cool for Terry Funk to come all the way to Philadelphia to film that little bit. The things they tell me make me feel good knowing that I am being myself and not trying to live up to anyone else’s career. I’m not doing this to appease what anyone else thinks. I’m being me.

Does Dean Ambrose like social media? 

That will never change. I don’t care about social media, like social media or even understanding social media.

I don’t care plain and simple. I could care less about social media and anything that goes along with it.