Tyler Breeze Believes The Fashion Files Got Canceled By Accident, Credits Social Media Buzz For Keeping The Show Alive

Tyler Breeze discusses the Fashion Files.

From 2016 to 2017, Tyler Breeze and Fandango took part in a multi-episode segment on SmackDown known as the Fashion Files. The segments were very popular, prompting many online fans to create memes and jokes on social media.

The segments came to a sudden end in 2017, leaving fans craving more as the weeks went on. Speaking with Fightful Overbooked’s In The Weeds podcast, Tyler Breeze talked about coming up with the idea at a time where his team with Fandango wasn’t doing anything of note.

“All of the sudden, they tagged us up and we were essentially just supposed to be the other guys to Goldust and Truth. They were supposed to be the funny ones and we were supposed to be the butt of the joke. I guess what ended up happening was we ended up clicking pretty good and we ended up being entertaining. So they went, okay, we can do more with these guys but then it never came to fruition. It was kinda just like, eh, we’re around, but we’re not really doing anything and it was very clear that they weren’t about to all of the sudden make things happen. Knowing what I did about WWE and just wrestling in general where if a couple months go by and you’re not doing much, you should probably kick yourself in the ass and get to doing something. So we had a digital media team, they have cameras and they’re there all the time, people just don’t use them. I went, hey, I’m going to write a couple of things and see what we can do. I wrote like a three or four episode skit of me and Dango slowly turning into the Fashion Police and we just got dot com to film them. I did like two or three and then we did the last one where we’re finally cops, it was a good cop-bad cop with Billy Kidman. It was hilarious, I was laughing my head off because Dango was so funny. We put it out, we’re showing that there is something if they want to do it.”

Breeze also recalled a conversation with the head writer of SmackDown, which ultimately led to the segment making it on the show. Vince McMahon, despite not being a fan, allowed it to continue due to popularity alone.

“It’s kind of exactly what happened where the head writer of SmackDown at the time saw it and went, ‘Why isn’t this on SmackDown?’ I went, ‘I don’t know, you write SmackDown, so put it on there.’ The next week, they wrote the first episode of the Fashion Files and put us on there. It was one of those ones where they wrote it and it was hilarious. We’re in the writers room, we’re filming this one and they’re all sitting right there. As soon as they said cut, the entire room broke out laughing and we went, ‘Oh man, this could be really good.’ They aired it on the show, it did pretty well or whatever and Vince went, ‘What is that? Why are we putting this on TV?’ Everyone’s like, oh, okay, guess we won’t do that again. I guess in the meetings they have, they talk about social media numbers and stuff like that. They went, okay so how did social media do last week? Our number one trending thing was the Fashion Files and Vince was like, ‘What? We had Randy Orton on the show and all these other things and Fashion Files was number one?’ He goes, ‘Okay, book it again I guess.’ All of the sudden, it was number one again. He went, ‘I don’t get it, just keep doing it I guess.’ Whenever they’d go over the show, he’d get to the Fashion Files part and they’d go, ‘Do you wanna go over it?’ He’d go, ‘Nope, just do whatever.’ It was really funny because the writers at the time told us, they went, yeah, this is unheard of because Vince usually wants to know everything about everything. He’s kind of leaving us on an island of our own to write whatever we want. He’s not asking questions, he’s not questioning it, he’s just going, ‘People are liking it, so keep doing it.’ They were having a blast writing all of this crazy stuff as you saw when the Twin Peaks episode came out. They loved it because very rarely do you get to write whatever you want. It ended up being eight months where it was doing so well on socials that they just kept writing it and kept doing it.”

Breeze then revealed that he believes the show was canceled because of a misunderstanding.

“To this day, I think it got canceled by accident. There was a pay-per-view coming up and we weren’t booked on it, but they had a Fashion Files. Vince said, ‘Why are we doing this? They don’t have a match on the pay-per-view, so why are we doing this?’ I think all the writers freaked out like, oh god he hates it, never do it again. Then, we never did another one after that and that was the end of it. Pretty sure it was just a mistake, pretty sure he said don’t do it before a pay-per-view where they’re not wrestling. It’s by far the most reactions we’ve ever gotten, me and Dango together. It worked, it was wild. It was a wild eight month thing that happened because of social media. If it wasn’t for that, it would’ve been dead after one episode.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Tyler Breeze recalled a time where Mercedes Mone and Bayley would copy his matches on NXT live events. Check out his full comments by clicking here.

Fans can check out Fightful Overbooked’s full interview with Tyler Breeze in the interview linked at the top of this article.