10 Wrestlers Who Got A WrestleMania Singles Match Before Dolph Ziggler
3. Fandango
A noble failure on WWE's part to get something over in its original form, the Fandango character was something of a New Generation throwback at first. Fandango was a dancer that was also a wrestler that fortuitously happened to have a name related to his other profession, a bit like H.O.G the pig farmer, Duke 'The Dumpster' Droese or TL Hopper the guy that unblocked the toilets.
If all those examples feel perilously close to sh*t in one form or another, it's because they all shared the trait as wrestling personas. Fandango's success - which is generous, considering how things went when WWE got their hands on it - came from fans taking the p*ss out of the character rather than embracing it.
"Fandangoing" became A Thing following his WrestleMania singles win over Chris Jericho, with people doing a finger dance to his jaunty theme the night after the 'Show Of Shows' after getting bored at Raw. iTunes downloads briefly soared, so WWE sent hot young thing Jerry Lawler out there the following week to bring the young star out to explain the joke to those that hadn't got it.
This was death for the gimmick, but at least he'd been permitted to feel alive first.