Ambrose has been mentally checked out since that botched Seth feud-botched Wyatt feud double whammy in late 2014. Once it was starkly illustrated how little the brass cared about him, he basically decided to stack chips and coast until now. You'd see little flashes here and there, but even those flashes were mostly killed after the WM 32 Brock match when Brock fukked off his ideas to do his usual thing and probably completely killed when he destroyed himself in 2016 only to end up in the exact same position he was in before (he has to shoulder some blame here for being a lazy worker, but we saw what NOT being a lazy worker did for guys like Cesaro and even Bryan, to an extent).
It wasn't good entertainment, but anyone who's been in a corporate environment and hasn't felt valued should sympathize with his position. I'm hoping for the best for my Ohio bretheren.
Didn't see this live since I don't watch WWE programming anymore, but Christ. This is Shawn Michaels-level overselling.