The Shield (professional wrestling)

The Shield was a professional wrestling stable in WWE from 2012 to 2014, which consisted of Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins.

The group debuted on November 18, 2012, at the Survivor Series pay-per-view. The Shield was a dominant force in six-man tag team matches with an undefeated streak lasting from December 2012 to May 2013, during which they scored a victory at WrestleMania 29 and defeated teams containing the likes of Big Show, Chris Jericho, Daniel Bryan, John Cena, Kane, Randy Orton, Ryback, Sheamus and The Undertaker.

In May 2013, all three members of The Shield won a professional wrestling championship at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, with Ambrose winning the United States Championship while Rollins and Reigns captured the WWE Tag Team Championship. Rollins and Reigns were WWE Tag Team Champions until October 2013 and Ambrose was United States Champion until May 2014, which was a record reign for the WWE version of the championship. As a Shield member, Reigns gained prominence by setting and equaling elimination records at the 2013 Survivor Series and the 2014 Royal Rumble events.

In 2014, The Shield gained victories over The Wyatt Family and Evolution in six-man tag matches as well as a win at WrestleMania XXX. The Shield at different points in their history worked for CM Punk and The Authority while later going on to face their former employers in separate feuds. They wrestled in the main event of numerous Raw and SmackDown television shows and headlined one pay-per-view, the 2014 Payback event, which was their final match as a trio.

Rollins left the group on June 2, 2014, when he attacked Ambrose and Reigns with a chair and sided with The Authority. Ambrose and Reigns went on their own ways as singles wrestlers later that month, marking the end of The Shield.

Following the group's dissolution, each member of The Shield has gone on to win the WWE Championship; the group currently have six total reigns between them, and all three reigned as champion within a five-minute span at the end of the 2016 Money in the Bank event.


The Shield (professional wrestling)
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