Fandango

Like, and they've come close a few times, but the expectations have ballooned on that show and it's all because of that night with that.

That was with the, uh, Fandango, right? The crowd was doing Fandango all night.

Mm-hmm.

And then that cash-in is molten, fucking insane.

She's lost a lot of steam, right.

The only other guy I could think of, remember Fandango when he debuted? They did that thing where they kept teasing his debut and he didn't wrestle.

That's the only other person I can think of, and then eventually-

I-

Okay.

Now, this isn't even true, because Chris Jericho was doing it on purpose, and every time he bumped into Fandango, he would call him, like, Fanda-bobity-bee-boo or something like that.

But Fandango was already annoyed about this, 'cause he didn't think ring announcers could say his name either, even though it's pretty an easy name to say, Fandango.

It meant there was only one thing for it, [laughs] which was a match at WrestleMania back in 2013, and Chris Jericho actually lost this when all of a sudden fans fell in love with Fandango's theme tune, and we actually could have used this to turn him into a big star.

But as WWE [laughs] is want to do, they ran that into the ground, and they made it painfully uncool.

There is more to this as well, because Jericho came back originally to work with Ryback when it got totally changed, and he wasn't going to do this match until he sat down with The Undertaker and the veteran told him, "Just go out there and do your best," which is what he did with Fan-ding-dong.

Damien Sandow, 2013.

You had him in there, Cesaro, Cody, Dean Ambrose, Fandango, Jack Swagger, Wade Barrett.

Everybody outside of Jack Swagger, I feel you would've had a capable person of holding that Money in the Bank contract, 'cause Wade Barrett, you could've used that to heat him back up from the Nexus debacle.

Fandango, he was still one of the hottest properties WWE had, 'cause people still doing the Fandangoing with them.

Uh, Cody Rhodes, people saw stuff in Cody.

I know I did at that point, so you could've did something there with him.

That was the night after WrestleMania, okay? And that building was shaking.

Like, I, first of all, that whole Raw was wild, 'cause that was the night that, like, they, you went crazy with the Fandango.

Duh, duh-

Yeah

I had traveled a lot.

I was best man at Fandango's wedding, uh, the weekend prior.

Two weeks prior, I went to RAS first inaugural show in Cleveland, a little bit over a year ago now, and I traveled a lot those two weekends, and I really pushed myself.

I remember sitting at Fandango's, um, rehearsals and just soaking wet in sweat.

We're in Maine, Kennebunkport, but beautiful, beautiful resort and, uh, and it was cool.

Not cold, but cool, and I'm soaking wet with sweat.

I know he really, really loved Newcastle.

Um, I, it's when he was on UpUpDownDown with, um, you know, Austin Creed and, and you know, the Fandango boys, and he, um, he, he was always in a Newcastle jersey.

And he was, you know, we'd, as we'd call him Dry Pac.

He had his glasses on and his hair back.