>>4983326That's not what happened.
What happened it that his song was becoming massively popular organically and WWE being the sterile, corporate, publicly traded entity it is drove it all straight into the ground in a single night with that dumb everyone's fandangoing video and having him come out immediately afterwards and going "WANT TO FANDANGO?"
I've never seen such a rising fad come to such a screeching halt. It was like a light switch went off