Dean Ambrose Profiled By Rolling Stone, Says He Finds It Strange Being A Babyface

Dean Ambrose, who will face Seth Rollins this Sunday at Hell in a Cell, still finds being a babyface to be "a bit strange" after splitting from The Shield in June.

"I never pictured myself being liked by anybody. I've always fed off negativity and wanting people to hate me. That attitude really fueled me for my entire career. So being a guy that people like and want to cheer for is the weird part," Ambrose told Rolling Stone for an article profiling his anti-hero persona.

As a babyface, Ambrose must also face the challenge of maintaining his performance edge "without succumbing to clichés."

"I think we've trained the audience that it's, 'Good guy does down, good guy starts shaking, crowd starts clapping, good guy claps his hands three times, hits his move, finish,'" Ambrose laments. "Everybody's got a formula for their comeback. And no offense to anybody, but John Cena has his comeback, Kofi Kingston has his comeback. I've got a little formula too, but I keep it much shorter. I'm like, 'Why does everything have to be so locked into a box?'"

Name-dropping Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk and Bruiser Brody, Ambrose hopes to fashion himself in their image as "just a wild man," saying, "I have that anti-romantic image in my head. I was kind of living in my own little mini-version of that."

He added, "Who knows how long that will last? All the people who love me right now are probably gonna hate me next month."

Elsewhere in the article, it is revealed that Ambrose has a girlfriend and he currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her name, however, is not mentioned, only that she resides in New York City and he was spending time there in a rare window of time off.