10 Wrestlers Punished For Trying To Steal The Limelight
9. Fandango
Destroyed by the company's clueless efforts to actually try and maintain his momentum, Fandango's novelty appeal following a shocking WrestleMania 29 victory over Chris Jericho was strangled to death by WWE's tone-deaf follow-through.
New Jersey fans on the post-WrestleMania Raw caused the initial song-and-dance, humming his chintzy entrance theme alongside a finger-jig during his moribund match with Kofi Kingston. Stumbling on their meme of the weekend, the crowd went all-in on it throughout the rest of the broadcast. WWE's YouTube channel uploaded footage of fans continuing to sing as they left the building, moved as they were to take advantage of the unlikely interest in the character.
Over the following week, videos went viral of mass groups 'Fandangoing' whilst the song itself shot up iTunes charts and came within a whisker of cracking the UK Top 40. The company toasted the notoriety by having the ancient Jerry Lawler beat audiences over the heads with the craze the next week, then have Fandango himself lose a Jericho rematch at the very next pay-per-view.
Appeal quashed and credibility squashed, he'd gone from the outhouse to the penthouse and back in little over a month.