Jericho's always made it a mission to elevate the next big things during his abbreviated runs with the company in later days, and Fandango would've been no different if his push wasn't killed off. The WrestleMania match was actually Fandango's televised in-ring debut (not counting his days as Johnny Curtis), and it was something of a wild card: nobody knew how it would play out. Fandango got the grand entrance, trading on his ballroom dancing persona, and went to work with Jericho, piecing together a simple but enjoyable match that accentuated the strengths of a very new character. Jericho, in any form, always works to the strengths of his opponent, and it resulted in possibly the third or fourth best match of an oddly dim WrestleMania.
Justin has been a wrestling fan since 1989, and has been writing about it since 2009. Since 2014, Justin has been a features writer and interviewer for Fighting Spirit Magazine. Justin also writes for History of Wrestling, and is a contributing author to James Dixon's Titan series.
