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In a heartbreaking bit of news today, WWE released Breezango. Fandango and Tyler Breeze were cut from the company's roster within an hour of each other, ending the run of one of the most entertaining tag teams the company ever produced.
Johnny Curtis (Fandango) and Matt Clements (Tyler Breeze) were both fantastic in their own right, but when they came together they put smiles on the faces of the WWE Universe for five years straight. We last saw them on NXT together defeating Imperium in tag team action.
This was some shocking news for fans to hear, and we felt a great way to celebrate the run of Breezango would be to highlight their five best moments with WWE. We'll kick things off with the introduction of the team.
#5 Breezango form on SmackDown - May 12th, 2016
Tyler Breeze and Fandango were pulled into a quarrel between Goldust and R-Truth five years back. While Goldy and the greatest 24/7 Champion of all time seemed destined for tag team glory, they fought against the current for months. They eventually enlisted two other WWE Superstars.
Goldust took Fandango under his wing while Truth decided to fight alongside Tyler Breeze. During a tag team match on SmackDown, neither Goldust nor Truth wanted to fight each other, refusing to wrestle whenever the other was in the ring. This led to Fandango and Breeze both turning on their partners, walking off and forming their own duo known as Breezango.
Goldust and R-Truth would soon form the Golden Truth, whose first feud would be the newly formed Breezango. In one night, WWE created two stellar tag teams.
#4 Breezango and WWE take us back in time with Southpaw Regional Wrestling
Throughout their WWE careers, Breezango has continuously proven themselves to be a comedic genius. Between their in-ring antics and their backstage skits, few could make the WWE Universe laugh quite like Fandango and his tag partner Tyler Breeze. So when WWE decided to parody the classic territory days of professional wrestling, the two were obvious choices.
Not only did Fandango get a recurring role in the skits, but he was prominently featured alongside John Cena as part of the show's two studio hosts. Cena played the part of Lance Cattermaran while Fandango was the depressed, drunk mess known as Chet Chetterfield.
Tyler Breeze was the heel manager known as Mr. Mackelroy, a mustache twirling banker who bought the family farm of Big Bartholomew (Miro).
Prior to the pandemic last year, WWE teased Season 3 of Southpaw Regional Wrestling. Unfortunately, between that and the slew of releases of talent involved in the program, we never got that.
However, Chad 2 Badd and Tex "Sex" Ferguson did make several appearances outside of WWE on Talk'N'Shop A-Mania. Maybe in some form, Chetterfield and Mackelroy will show up as well.
#3 Breezango clean up the competition at Backlash 2017
At this point, Breezango fever was in full effect. In April of 2017, Breezango won a Beat the Clock Challenge to earn a shot at SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos.
It was Breezango's first real major shot at championship gold, and it was on pay-per-view no less. How'd they respond? Well, Tyler Breeze decided to go under cover as a janitor. Why? Nobody's entirely sure, but it led to some of the best moments of that event.
When Breeze tagged in, he began mopping the ring to the confusion of Jimmy and Jey. After rubbing the mop in Jimmy's face, Jey tagged in and knocked Breeze out like a light. When he went for the Uso Splash, Breeze slowly rolled across the ring to get out of harm's way.
Jey moved to the other side of the ring, and Breeze rolled back across the other direction. When Fandango tagged back in, Jey knocked Breeze off the apron. When Breeze emerged once again, he was dressed as a grandmother.
Outside of the comedy, it was also a great match. Though Breezango didn't win, they proved that they could hang with the best tag team in the division.
#2 Breezango presents: The Fashion Files
Breezango, seemingly out of nowhere, became fan favorites of the WWE Universe in 2016. Why?
The Fashion Files, that's why! Whoever decided to turn Fandango and Tyler Breeze into "Fashion Police" deserved a raise. Every week, we'd see Breezango in backstage skits where they insulted all the teams on SmackDown. The Bludgeon Brothers, The Usos, The Ascension, nobody was safe.
At a certain point, Breezango became the unlikely, and sometimes unwilling, allies of The Ascension. And it worked! Of course it worked.
These segments were a highlight of WWE programming, often becoming some of the most talked about moments each week. And with the support of the WWE Universe, Breezango was a consistent part of SmackDown's tag division.
When fans were told The Fashion Files were up next, the crowd in attendance and those watching from home couldn't help but watch. These two were guaranteed to sports-entertain you better than anyone else.
#1 Breezango capture the NXT Tag Titles
For years, Breezango made the WWE Universe laugh. Over time, they became a team that fans wanted to see achieve actual in-ring success. Though they were funny and great in the ring, they'd never captured WWE gold as a team.
That was until they moved to NXT. Tyler Breeze began working on NXT and 205 Live in 2019 while Fandango was out with an injury. Breezango reunited when The Forgotten Sons attacked Tyler Breeze, leading to the return of Fandango.
Before they could get going again, Fandango was out with another injury, this time needing Tommy John surgery to repair his shoulder. When Dango made his return in 2020, NXT weren't hesitant about sending Breezango to the top of the NXT Tag Division.
They knocked off Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, as well as The Undisputed Era, in a triple threat tag team match to determine the new number one contenders.
Though they failed to win the titles the first time, another triple threat number one contenders match saw Breezango best Legado Del Fantasma and Lorcan and Burch at NXT TakeOver: XXX.
Then on August 26th, Breezango defeated Imperium's Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel to finally capture tag team gold.
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