Some might say that Fandango has been repackaged only recently. In one sense, they're right. In another, more practical sense, they're totally wrong. He's still a dancer, he just has new theme music and a new pair of boobs following him around. They're not exactly reinventing the wheel with this one. Fandango first got over as a novelty act, the kind of thing WWE promotes for a few months at a time before abandoning completely (google "Beaver Cleavage" sometime). He got a very impressive win for his first Wrestlemania appearance against Chris Jericho, but be honest, at this point in time a victory over Y2J doesn't mean that much, since he only ever appears these days to put over new talent (which is fine, someone's got to do it, but if you don't win once in a while, you begin to look like a doormat, Chris) What DID happen at Wrestlemania and more specifically at Raw the next night, the large number of rabid international fans gave birth to a new craze, which became known as Fandangoing. It didn't do much for him in terms of actual wins and losses, but it kept him on TV, at least. His last real storyline was a love triangle involving Summer Rae and Layla, which painted him as a sleazy Lothario type, and yet somehow he managed to come off worse than he was at the start. This is the kind of thing that Eddie Guerrero did to make himself a star with the audience, and Fandango and WWE dropped the ball with it. He might dance Latin, but he lacks that Latino Heat. Perhaps that would be the best thing for WWE to do, to play up his sleaziness with the Divas backstage and concentrate on making him a total slimebag, because it's been nearly two years now, and nobody cares about the ballroom dancer gimmick on its own merits. Especially since they changed his theme music.... It's just not the same....
Stephen Maher has been a rock star, a bouncer, a banker and a busker on various streets in various countries. He's hung out with Robert Plant, he was at Nelson Mandela's birthday and he's swapped stories with prostitutes and crack addicts. He once performed at a Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras by accident. These days, he passes the time by writing about music, wrestling, games and other forms of nerdery. And he rarely drinks the blood of the innocent.
