Fandango
 

I was thinking about him earlier, and have decided Vince is going to pull a reverse Brodus Clay on us. After showing vignette's showing him as a fabulous ballroom dancing adonis, he'll debut as a wrecking machine and go onto main event at WMXXX against Ryback.

THE FANDANGO vs THE RYBACK. Book it now.





















But please let Johnny Curtis come back, I miss him :(

Oh, no. I want this character to debut as is.

He should roll up in his van, chloroform Cena and beat The Rock at Wrestlemania.

You obviously missed the part where I wasn't being serious Keith

Apart from the last sentence of course.

The reason Johnny Curtis is not on TV right now is because Vince McMahon does not want to make any more money.

Who expected Brodus Clay to turn into "The Funkasaurus"?

What you said can happen. And I don't want it to!

Just...... No.

I never thought about it... Maybe Vince doesn't want to bring in another JC that's gonna outshine the current JC.

By "current JC" of course, I mean Jesus Christ. Seeing as how Johnny Curtis would automatically become bigger than Christianity.

What Would Johnny Do?

<font color=goldenrod>Johnny Curtis rules. Not sure he'll resurface until after WM when the next wave of new roster additions shows up...but I miss him.</font>

We need a www.hasfandangodebutedyet.com to keep us up to date.

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I actually like Johnny Curtis like this. I didn't actually understand the gimmick.... but it seemed interesting.

Fandango is still better than Heath Slater and RYBACK

<font color=goldenrod>All of those months of vignettes just for like 2 squash matches before he went back to NXT. :o

I find it funny how they didn't just sweep his promised title match under the rug. Instead they were openly just like "nope. not gonna happen. oh well."</font>

Maybe he could change his gimmick to a detective and try to discover why nobody took selfies in mirrors before MySpace..... ;)

And then he could dance with Fandango and it'd be frickin' sweet.

Actually Curtis did get his tag team championship match on but it was on nXt when he was tagging with someone he teamed with before (McGillicuty or Bateman) it's like they suddenly remembered about it.

He should randomly get an NXT Tag Team Championship match. Dusty Rhodes can can be all "oh, we never said a WWE Tag Team Championship match".

Fandango liiiiiiiiiiiiiives!

Faaaannnn daaaaaaaaaaaang gooooooo

Lawler loves him some Fandango.

Yes!!

Just look how much Johnny's fringe has grown since the first vignette. It's almost biblical.

i think he's gonna fall flat, I dont see his gimmick translating into the ring

It so will. It so fucking will.

In WCW/NWO Revenge I went start to finish against my brother and his friend in a 40 man royal rumble with Alex Wright.

this idiot already looks annoying.

He will be released by the end of the year.

The NTI? Could be as big as the nWo.

So much irony in this post.

to me he looks annoying.

so when he's on tv every week it will be even worse.

There are far more annoying looking people than Johnny Curtis.

Hoping they go as sleazy as possible with this gimmick.

He should force himself onto Michael Cole and slowly force his tongue into Cole's mouth.

...then at WrestleMania you have a "Rimjob Match".

Michael Cole goes 2-0 at WrestleMania and finds out he enjoys being anally manipulated.

It's gonna get weird.

First Heiden-rape, then Fand-anal.

:y:

Fandango vignette on Main Event tonight!

LOL I've seen some videos of Fandango's entrance on Youtube, and dude comes out dancing and carrying a rose.

Doesn't get any better than that. Instant star!

i thought vince had signed a new diva.

Gerty baby, could you please change our avatar. Every time I see that picture of owenbrown I want to throw my phone.

I'm surprised there isn't more splattering of Fandangoo around here.

I splattered to Fandango a couple times last night.

I second this. I use to hate the previous avatar, but I'd give anything to not have to look at the current one.

And while you're at it, change that fucking custom title. You're the Pulse of the WWE, its time to act like it, damn it.

Sure is.

Now everyone has a reason to watch SmackDown.

I hope I'm wrong and this dude is great, I know a lot of you think quite a bit of him, but this whole thing has struck me as kind of dumb and not in a good or entertaining way.

Finally we've got somebody here on the same wavelength as mike adamle!

Gonna need Gertner's opinion on this as the pulse of all things quality.

But my opinion is certainly looking wrong at this point.

They're just going to keep pushing his debut back every week until eventually debuting him with an "end of humanity" gimmick.

I'm convinced they shelved him for a while cause the ticket service probably wasn't happy..now he's fawn Dan go and not fan dang go

I agree, he just seems like a dancing Alberto Del Rio or something.

LOL

It begins

Fuck you Striker! You cost me Pool points!

I fully expect thousands of CHLOROFORM STRIKER signs at upcoming WWE events

Friday Night Fandango

I'm a fan already. The funniest part to me is how he danced into the interview with a woman. He spun her out of the shot, and she was never acknowledged again. Did she just disappear or what? Hilarious.

More like Faaaaah-graaaaahn-doooooh!

<font color=goldenrod>Probably an oversight/doesn't mean anything but they've added Fandango to the WWE.com roster page, while Johnny Curtis is still listed as a member of the roster as well.

Would love to see creepy Johnny Curtis return and actually have him using two different characters on television.</font>

Johnny is a very attractive man with the longer hair, but his mannerisms on SD made him seem too fruity. The homophobes ain't gonna dig it.

I, for one, think he's fabulous.

He's a heel, right?

The many faces of Curtis.

I'd be perfectly happy if Johnny Curtis portrayed half of the roster.

Alberto Del Curtis

Which makes me want to hear Ricardo Rodriguez announce Fandango.

After weeks of nobody being able to say his name right, he approaches a professional... and the rest is legend....

Didn't Mike Bucci play Simon Dean and Nova for a bit at the same time?

This is doable. Also...

I am for the idea of firing everyone else and just making WWE the most elaborate one man show of all time.

You gotta breathe in the A's.

Don't get caught up on the N.

Yeah, he played Nova for a short while after ONS with the BWO in a feud against the Mexicools

This is something I'd like to see happen, too. Don't take the gimmick too seriously and acknowledge that "That's Johnny Curtis -- Winner of NXT Season 4..." Fandango getting so stressed about his name being pronounced right could have much more material if he weren't happy with the announce team calling him "Johnny Curtis" all the time.

Also, in my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Fandango should be the next Intercontinental Champion. We've seen a lot of established mid-card and even main event guys holding the belt lately -- I think it would be a breath of fresh-air for a relatively young (in an exposure sense) talent like Curtis to get the belt.

So yeah, I already can't stand his promos and not in a good way. They are change the channel worthy, although I. Do like Curtis. This is just bad.

Also, Ricardo Rodriguez announcing Fandango has to happen. It just has to happen. Later on in the show, Del Rio can ask Ricardo "What was all that about?" and Ricardo plays it off like it's nothing. The next week, Ricardo shows up with a black eye and Del Rio wants to know what is going on. Ricardo says it is nothing and Del Rio reminds Ricardo that he is his friend, and that if someone is hurting his friend he wants to know about it. Ricardo denies anything happened but in the meantime Ricardo keeps acting as Fandango's ring announcer as well.

Del Rio and Fandango have a few backstage interactions where Del Rio makes it clear that he doesn't like Fandango and doesn't trust him, and Fandango arrogantly shrugs it off. Eventually Del Rio is wrestling a match when Fandango makes his way out with a microphone. He has some footage for Del Rio to watch. We see security camera style footage that reveals Fandango has been paying Ricardo off as an announcer with dancing lessons, and because Ricardo doesn't quite get it (but is pretty amazing), Fandango gets rough with him. Del Rio is distracted and loses to whoever he is wrestling.

Del Rio vs. Fandango. Feud of the century. Fandango wants to put Ricardo's services on the line, but Del Rio says that he doesn't gamble with his friend's life, and he wants Ricardo to choose what he wants. That's enough for Ricardo, who helps Del Rio in his match against Fandango, revealing that Del Rio has secretly been training him as a wrestler by almost knocking Fandango's head off with an enziguri.

Ricardo Rodriguez: Your loser of the match........FAAAAAAAAANDAAAAAAAAAANGOOOOO!!!!!!

If that also leads to Ricardo putting on his El Local costume to have a few matches with Curtis, bonus. Fandango can be all "I want to get you in this ring if you're man enough, Ricardo," and Ricky is all "See you later tonight," but then we see him later and he's feigning a tummy-ache in front of Del Rio and the General Manager of whatever show this is on. He says that he doesn't know if he can face Fandango later tonight. El Local steps up as Ricardo's replacement, though.

This, of course, leads to Fandango becoming obsessed with who is El Local and why he is protecting Ricardo. He accuses Del Rio, but Del Rio is proven to be a completely separate entity. Fandango challenges El Local to a PPV match and he wants El Local to put his mask on the line. Ricardo Rodriguez comes out, representing El Local, and has him on the phone. Fandango demands to talk to El Local. Ricardo hands the phone over and Fandango asks him "What? You want...to dance with *whatever his female dance partner is called*? Fine! I'll see you at *whatever PPV it is*! And you won't forget the name...he hung up on me!"

At the PPV, El Local again upsets Johnny Curtis, and after the match, the lights change to a goofy ballroom setting and El Local stands in the ring with his hand outstretched towards, let's call her "Esmeralda" at ringside. She acts all flustered and gets in the ring and has a bit of a tango with the surprisingly tango-iffic luchador, El Local. An enraged Fandango attacks from behind, however, and he pulls off the mask of El Local to reveal...Ricardo Rodriguez! Curtis is so shocked that Ricardo can battle back and toss him out of the ring and continue his dance with Esmeralda.

It is revealed that Ricardo Rodriguez only wanted to dance to impress Esmeralda, and that he finally gets his moment with her at the expense of the man that stood between them on PPV.

On a follow-up TV show, Curtis is furious and says that he spoke to El Local on the phone. Ricardo brings out a homeless guy and reveals that he paid him $20 to fake the call. Ricardo then gets the bum to tell Fandango that "You ain't so smart, Mr. Johnny Curtis." Being referred to as "Mr. Johnny Curtis" by a homeless man is the final straw between Curtis and complete heel insanity, and we see him shed the Fandango gimmick and become "JohnnyCurtis JohnnyCurtis," with Johnny Curtis being so obsessed with being called "Johnny Curtis" by everyone that he makes it his name. Both names.

So really all of this is just to make JohnnyCurtis JohnnyCurtis snap and become a bad-ass submission machine.