Dean Ambrose and the Best WWE Mic Mastery for Week of November 2

Dean Ambrose doesn't become any less frenetic, unhinged or captivating when the spotlight dims or the audience shrinks.

The Lunatic Fringe rattled off a mesmerizing speech after Thursday's WWE SmackDown went off the air. His fiery response to Kevin Owens' underhanded tactics aired on WWE.com and YouTube. That placement of his promo is symbolic of his place on the card.

Ambrose finds himself further from center stage than his talent should dictate. He's a marquee star who is roosting in the upper midcard. He's been Roman Reigns' second banana of late, not the man chasing the WWE title.

Still, he hits everything full tilt, just as he did backstage on SmackDown, with sound equipment serving as the backdrop and sweat sliding off his face. 

The gut punch of defeat was still fresh as Ambrose spoke with Tom Phillips. He battled Owens hard in a non-title contest but lost via a disqualification that never should have happened.

The intercontinental champ faked a low blow a la Eddie Guerrero and writhed on the canvas convincingly enough to get the referee to punish Ambrose for the phantom blow.

Owens celebrated through the feigned pain. Attacking the champ wasn't enough to lessen Ambrose's frustration. He seethed backstage, pacing shirtless as Phillips asked him for his thoughts on the controversial finish.

And where so many wrestlers sound as if they are reciting a script, Ambrose made it feel as if his emotions were pouring out of him.

He called out Owens for being a coward, saying that he went the unscrupulous route so that "he can get out of Dodge. So he can get out of Colorado."

Ambrose did well to play up Owens' villainy and to remind fans why they should be booing the IC champ. And in a flash, he turned the focus onto himself. 

"Maybe the elevation was a little too much for him. That's what happens when you're in there with Dean Ambrose," he said.

The Lunatic Fringe painted himself as someone no one wants to tangle with. In his mind, a fight with Ambrose is no ordinary fight. It requires one to get "dirt underneath your fingernails."

And in his usual tongue-in-cheek, wild-eyed style, he called himself "a master in the grappling arts" and "one of the best on planet Earth that ever lived."

He manages to put an imaginative spin on commonplace brags. It's easy to take notice of him because of them.

The frustrated brawler took the opportunity to draw a clear line between him and Owens, creating a vivid contrast between hero and villain. Ambrose said he didn't need to resort to cheating or hired goons (likely a reference to both Seth Rollins and Bray Wyatt); he instead had a sense of honor.

As he put it, wrestling should be "a gentleman's game of attrition."

As he so often does, Ambrose was original and full of energy here. This was no generic, tough-guy promo; this was an Ambrose special.

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His last, emphatic line served as a tease of a future feud with Owens: "Everybody wants to get in a fight until they get in a fight. You picked a fight with the wrong guy, brother." Rollins shredding his knee, though, likely forces WWE's plans to change.

Rather than his taking on Owens with the IC title at stake, Ambrose and Owens both are probably headed for the tournament at Survivor Series to decide who next holds the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

When the WWE brass consider who to have advance to the end of that gauntlet, they should mull over the possibility of Ambrose grabbing the gold. This latest performance is the most recent bit of evidence of his being main event-worthy.

What could easily have been a throwaway interview instead became a display of crackling energy and a reminder that there isn't anyone quite like Ambrose.