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"WWE Superstar Fandango has argued that it&amp;#039;s more rewarding to get a crowd reaction with a PG show than by falling back on Attitude Era tricks of swearing and chair shots. The ballroom dancing wrestler, who won the fourth season of NXT as Johnny Curtis, told Digital Spy that the company&amp;#039;s current product offers pure entertainment for all ages.  &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s more rewarding to know that we can go out and put on a good show without going lowbrow and taking the easy road,&amp;quot; Fandango said. &amp;quot;Whether it&amp;#039;s the middle finger, or cursing, because that&amp;#039;s going to get a reaction no matter what. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s harder to get a reaction the honest way and that&amp;#039;s just pure entertainment. That&amp;#039;s from an 8-year-old kid to an 80-year-old woman. &amp;quot;I think chair shots and middle fingers and swearing and girls with their tops off is an easy reaction. I think the way we do it now is a lot more rewarding, for sure.&amp;quot; Quizzed on Hulk Hogan&amp;#039;s return to the company to host WrestleMania XXX, Fandango said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a huge fan, and I never actually got to meet Hulk until that Monday [on Raw]. &amp;quot;He came up to Summer [Rae] and myself and said he was a huge fan of ours and took a picture with us! WWE tweeted it out and Hulk did too.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;He still looks great for his age. I don&amp;#039;t know if I should say &amp;#039;for his age&amp;#039;. He looks great for my age! A real nice guy and it&amp;#039;s really cool. I think WWE&amp;#039;s his home. &amp;quot;No matter whether it&amp;#039;s 2014, 1983 or 2025 people are always going to accept him in the WWE because he helped make WrestleMania. He is WrestleMania.&amp;quot;      Asked if CM Punk might still return before the anniversary event, despite his non-appearance on that episode of Monday Night Raw, he said: &amp;quot;With the WWE you never know who&amp;#039;s going to come back at any time. &amp;quot;Whether it&amp;#039;s The Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, Chris Jericho. Every week you tune in there could be a surprise. &amp;quot;I really can&amp;#039;t tell you there, but I&amp;#039;m always excited to turn on WWE with the chance of someone coming back. So you never know.&amp;quot; Of what he wanted to do at the Showcase of the Immortals, he said: &amp;quot;Hopefully we&amp;#039;ll get in there with Santino Marella, whether it be a mixed tag or a singles match. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s been giving me a little bit of a problem as of late on TV over the last few weeks. That&amp;#039;s where it&amp;#039;s aiming for - hopefully it pays off.&amp;quot;  Asked when his partner Summer Rae would get a shot at AJ Lee&amp;#039;s Divas title, Fandango said: &amp;quot;I think the more matches she gets and more exposure and more experience with the Divas and kind of works her way up the rankings. &amp;quot;I think she has the ability, she has the look, the athleticism to definitely be Divas Champion someday down the road.&amp;quot; Of what it felt like to cross into the mainstream when Fandangoing went viral last year, he said: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s great, it&amp;#039;s unbelievable when WWE can touch a different genre and a different fanbase &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s great for business, it&amp;#039;s great for me. It&amp;#039;s only bringing more fans and more money to WWE, which is really why we do this.&amp;quot; Asked if he worried that the dancing gimmick may overshadow his mic or in-ring abilities, Fandango replied: &amp;quot;When I first started wrestling I was always concerned just about my moves and in-ring ability - my manoeuvres and just being a solid performer, a solid wrestler.  &amp;quot;That never made me money. What makes you money is being a character. Hulk Hogan was never the best wrestler, but he was one of the best entertainers and entertaining is what makes money. &amp;quot;So I don&amp;#039;t care. As long as people are noticing me - whether it&amp;#039;s at a soccer stadium or WWE event. As long as they&amp;#039;re making noise, whether it&amp;#039;s booing or cheering, I&amp;#039;m doing my job right.&amp;quot;      Of what he thought of Emma&amp;#039;s tune and moves, he joked: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t really care for her tune too much. I think she&amp;#039;s a bit of a poseur. &amp;quot;Whenever something really huge like Fandango-ing goes down, like the Legion of Doom, then you get people pretending to be the Legion of Doom. &amp;quot;I think she&amp;#039;s trying to jump on the bandwagon of me last year. It&amp;#039;s almost like riding my coattails trying to steal my gimmick a little bit, so not a huge fan of Emma.&amp;quot; Asked when he would finally compete for a major title, Fandango said: &amp;quot;I think after WrestleMania is when we&amp;#039;re done with the dancing idiots Santino and Emma. &amp;quot;Then it&amp;#039;s time to move on to a little bit more serious work, definitely.&amp;quot;  A famous Everton FC fan, Fandango had not heard the rumours that WWE boss Vince McMahon wanted to buy fellow Premier League side Newcastle United. Asked what position he&amp;#039;d play if Roberto Martinez signed him for the Toffees, he said: &amp;quot;Probably goalie, I think, because I&amp;#039;m so big. I&amp;#039;d take up a lot more space! &amp;quot;I think the goalies are a little bit bigger, right? So I think maybe that would be my best attribute right there, my size and my girth. Sheer mass!&amp;quot; Of who he would love to face in a bout from all of human history, Fandango opted for Andr\u00E9 the Giant. Andr\u00E9 will be further immortalised at WrestleMania XXX with the first Andr\u00E9 the Giant Memorial Trophy, given to the winner of a 30-Man over-the-top Battle Royal. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s just such an iconic figure for a lot of guys like me that never really got to meet him,&amp;quot; Fandango said.  &amp;quot;For my generation Andr\u00E9 had passed away by the time we got into the wrestling business. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s one guy I&amp;#039;d definitely loved to have met and one guy I&amp;#039;d definitely have loved to get in the ring with because he definitely lived his legacy. People will always remember him.&amp;quot; He then joked: &amp;quot;And Bill Murray! I&amp;#039;d like to wrestle Bill Murray! Which I think would be a hell of a match. &amp;quot;I think Fandango and Bill Murray would be a hell of a draw, in a jello match! Just fill up a pool with jello and Bill and I just sell tickets.&amp;quot; Asked about the the negative effect of the internet fan community in spoiling surprises, Fandango said: &amp;quot;There are pros and cons to how connected we are now. &amp;quot;One of the negatives, like you said, is that bad news travels really fast and secrets get out and it can really kill an angle. &amp;quot;On the other hand, good news, it helps promote good things too. It really helps the WWE Universe stay connected and up to date with what&amp;#039;s going on.&amp;quot; Watch WrestleMania XXX LIVE on April 6 at 1am (Sunday night/Monday morning) on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and on the WWE Network in the US. The WWE will be visiting the UK in May for the WrestleMania Revenge tour, including Raw and SmackDown TV events in London tickets are available now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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