Dirty Dango says that Vince McMahon wasn't a fan of the Fashion Police.
Throughout the history of WWE, there have been quite a few tag teams that haven't reached the top of the mountain the company for one reason or another. Many fans consider the Fashion Police (Tyler Breeze & Fandango) to be on that list of teams.
Although Tyler Breeze and Fandango were a active tag team in the promotion for nearly five years, many fans would argue that the team was never given a big spotlight for a consistent amount of time. The duo also never captured either the Raw or SmackDown Tag Team Championships throughout their time on the main roster. When Breeze and Fandango shifted to NXT in late 2019, they were able to win the NXT Tag Team Championships the next year.
In a new interview with WrestlingNews.co, Dango first spoke about how his tag team run with Breeze started.
“Breeze and I aren’t super close friends, but we are friends. We don’t talk every day but he’s a really good businessman and he’s very proactive. He’s always pitching ideas, he texted me when I was coming back [from] a meniscus scope I was out for a few weeks. He goes ‘Listen, they’re not using us. Instead of us just selling backstage and tweeting about how we’re not being used, let’s just do everything we can so if we do get released, let’s not give them any hooks to hang their hats on and just be proactive [about pitching things].’ We would come to TV every week and we would grab one of the dot com guys and just start cutting promos and then it kind of organically grew into the Fashion Files and we would dress up as cops and we ordered gear from Amazon and it started to get a lot of traction online. The social media guys loved working with us and I think during the production meeting, they’re gonna [talk about these segments and explain] that they’re getting a lot of social media buzz. They would go off of social media attraction and stuff and that’s how the Fashion Files started on television."
Dango then went on to reveal that Vince McMahon, who was in charge of WWE creative at the time, was not a fan of the gimmick and that he never once laughed at one of the team's segments.
"From day one to the last day we did it, Vince did not laugh once. He did not understand any of the jokes, he didn’t get any of the pop culture [stuff], any of the movies. [He did] not understand it, he didn’t like it, but he knew the fans liked it, so he kept it on his show. Yeah, he didn’t understand any of it. There would be people in gorilla watching the segment and everyone would pop while the segment was airing and Vince would just look around and be like ‘What the fuck?’. The dry sense of humor, it just wasn’t his thing you know. If you’re a 70 something year old guy, you’re probably not getting Twin Peaks jokes you know, it’s understandable. It’s nothing against him, he didn’t like it at all, but he knew some people did."
Breezango/The Fashion Police disbanded in 2021 after both Tyler Breeze and Fandango were released from WWE. Tyler Breeze has not wrestled since his release. Fandango, however, spent some time with the NWA before signing a deal with IMPACT Wrestling under his Dirty Dango persona.
Dirty Dango competed at the IMPACT Rebellion pay-per-view on April 16. Fans can see results for that event by clicking here.
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