It sounds like Dirty Dango wants to borrow from Lance Storm and be serious for one moment in his career.
Speaking with Mike McGuire for Sunday Night’s Main Event, Dirty Dango looked back on his run as Fandango and said he wants to end his career on a more serious note. Dango said he was given a more comedic character in WWE, but now he has a chance to switch things up a bit.
“They put the Fandango character on me, and Vince is like, ‘You’re not a wrestler. You’re a ballroom dancer. I have a whole locker room full of wrestlers.’ Everything that I kind of knew, in terms of in between that 20-by-20, was kind of thrown out the window. I guess, not saying I was as good of a wrestler as Norman Smiley, but he was a great wrestler, catch wrestler, and he got to WCW, he didn’t really wrestle at all. Most of my run in WWE was kind of more comedic and not a lot of wrestling. It was more character-based.
“So now being back in IMPACT Wrestling and on the independent scene, I think it kind of gives me more of an opportunity to get in there with guys like Nick Aldis and really show what I can do, which is kind of fun. I kind of want to end my career and my body of work on more of a wrestling, serious note. I kind of checked the comedy box. The thing is, if you can do comedy, and you can do it well, if you’re a guy like R-Truth, same with Kramer on Seinfeld, you’re almost typecast into that role, and then people only book you as a comedy guy. Bret and the guys up here in Calgary having the faith in me to go out in the main event and have a good wrestling match with a great wrestler like Nick Aldis, it means the world to me, and I really appreciate it.”
Dirty Dango made his debut for IMPACT Wrestling at the 2022 Bound for Glory pay-per-view as the mystery challenger of Brian Myers. His most recent match was a Four On Three Handicap match win with Joe Hendry & Santino Marella at IMPACT’s Rebellion pay-per-view.
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