9 Steps To Getting Over In WWE (100% Guaranteed)

7. Music The Audience Can Sing

For a short time in 2013, entire audiences of presumably sane and competent people were compelled to sing ‘der der der’ over an over again for significant portions of a television show.

The man who made it happen was Curtis Hussey, aka Johnny Curtis, aka Fandango. It is easy to forget that before Fandango was a meme-mongering fashion cop, and before his grim jobber stint, Fandango was the most over man in WWE. The reason was his music, a simple and crucially singable ditty blared out not just by the arena speakers, but by the audience who loved a singalong so much they would do it at random no matter who was actually in the ring.

NXT repeated the trick with Shinsuke Nakamura’s epic violin-led rock opera entrance music, and arguably perfected the art of singable entrance themes with Bobby Roode’s magnificent ode to elitism.

That both men wore the NXT gold owes a great deal to their in-ring excellence, but also to how much large groups of people love to sing in sweaty unison.