Jericho Says Working With Fandango at Wrestlemania Wasn't Easy

[Hoss]

http://www.prowrestling.net/artman/publish/WWE/article10033064.shtml

"Well I don't think you need to dissect it too much, it's working with a guy that nobody's ever seen before at a WrestleMania. There's your challenge, end of story. When you think of WrestleMania, you think you know what's the best match I can have, Undertaker, CM Punk or work with John Cena you know, but instead it's like "no you're not working with any of these guys you're working with a guy nobody has even seen wrestler before" It's a challenge, nobody knows him. Nobody knows his moveset. The basic principles of having a great match is working on the false finishes that people know.

"So say Punk, you've got the Go To Sleep, he's got the anaconda vice, he's got the bulldog outta the corner, he's got the spinkick, the elbow off the top, there's like ten things you can work with, that people will be buzzing about as soon as you start going into it. With a guy like Fandango, nobody had seen what he had done before, so it was my job to build him up the best I could in the four weeks or so to get him rolling so people gave a shyt about the match. So we focused in on stuff. I came up with a lot of ideas. He had the legdrop off the top, so we had him do that every week, lets have him beat me up, have him do a few things so people actually give a fukk about the match when we have it. And they did, it was good so it all worked out. The night after WrestleMania he was probably the most popular guy in the whole arena. Not so much now, but at the time."

 

[Adebisi_Said]

Was the last statement a shot at Fandango or creative?

 

[DaylitoJames]

Was the last statement a shot at Fandango or creative?

Probably both, I would say that Jericho hadn't breathe in the AIDS... but since he's Canadian and they got free health care he probably got a vaccine shot for that.

 

[MushroomX]

"...Not so much now, but at the time."

Not so much now but at the time until the...

THUNDER WAS STOLEN BY AXEL!​

 

[ML29]

His music was the most over thing in the building on the raw after Mania not him. The fans cheered Jericho when he came out and beat him up.

 

[I-Hate-You]

A shot at creative

His music was the most over thing in the building on the raw after Mania not him. The fans cheered Jericho when he came out and beat him up.

yep

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Surprised Jericho would even take that shot. He's been stoogin' for years.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Probably both, I would say that Jericho hadn't breathe in the AIDS... but since he's Canadian and they got free health care he probably got a vaccine shot for that.

What does this mean?

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Jeristooge at it again

 

[concise]

The basic principles of having a great match is working on the false finishes that people know.

Yeah. No wonder so many "classics" these days are nothing but awful displays of just kicking out of finishers constantly for the last third of the match.

 

[ECA]

delete

 

[23Barrettcity]

Yeah. No wonder so many "classics" these days are nothing but awful displays of just kicking out of finishers constantly for the last third of the match.

False finishes doesn't necessarily mean kicking out of finishes ... It's things like hitting that piledriver in the Cena /punk match on raw

 

[Da_Eggman]

Surprised Jericho would even take that shot. He's been stoogin' for years.

Um have you read his books he holds nothing back on the E

 

[Hoss]

Jericho ain't gonna let this rest. Today on Opie and Anthony:

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-...is-jericho-talks-fandango-on-opie-and-anthony

"I had to construct a whole way of building this match over 4 weeks to make people give a shyt about it and I think we did a good job of that because the next night after WrestleMania that guy was like the most popular guy in the business because they're all doing his stupid dance. He had this awful theme song that sounded like "I Dream of Jeannie" and it was like a Top 30 hit in England on iTunes and I guarantee a week and a half after, two weeks later everyone is looking at their iPhones and wondering why the fukk did I buy that. "Can I erase this please?" So people would do this and sing along with it and about a month and a half later the whole thing was like the pet rock of wrestling, it was a huge fad and it just died right afterwards to where now the guy had to start over from scratch and try to build his way back up again. But for a while, he was a contendor.

Opie comments that Fandango had great heat

Jericho:

"Well that too was because he was working with me and we put together some stuff where he was kicking the shyt out of me and it built good. So that's what you gotta do sometimes you get the task that you're really not all that keen on and you gotta make it work."

 

[Hoss]

And more:

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-...-of-fandango-and-the-non-rise-nor-fall-of-tna


Fandango program:


It’s actually a feather in my cap. Not to be a jerk, but he was working with Chris Jericho in his first match ever on the show at WrestleMania. If that doesn’t put you on a different level, then nothing will. I knew that he’d have to come back down to earth at some point, because the fans aren’t gonna believe in him working with other people, because there’s not a lot of Chris Jerichos out there, and I say that with all due respect. What I mean by that is a guy who’s been around for as long as I have, with the fanbase that I have, the reputation that I have. People know that it’s going to be good, and something special, no matter what it is. Even if it’s a guy they’ve never seen. I put a lot of input into what we did with him to build that.


Everything that we did, I meticulously thought of. “What should we do to get this guy over?” Well, rule number one - I want to try and get this leg drop over. Rule number two - I want him to be a kick-ass heel when he’s getting his heat, because the gimmick is so ridiculous that if he doesn’t show that viciousness during the match, no one’s going to buy it. Little tricks like that that I’ve learned over the years that other people don’t know, and Fandango doesn’t know because he’s inexperienced. It was, like I said, a real feather in my cap. Fandango, the night after WrestleMania, was the most over performer in the company.