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04-10-2013, 03:53 PM
In the UK Singles Charts, the Fandango theme "ChaChaLaLa" has overnight climbed from outside the top 1,000 and rocketed into the charts. At the time of this writing it is at number 30, but has been climbing all day and is anticipated to continue.
The link to purchase is here... https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/wwe-chachalala-fandango/id614738696?i=614739193
The campaign is spreading like wildfire and there's even a piece in a National Newspaper about it... BRITISH wrestling fans helped instigate one of the most incredible atmospheres in wrestling history on Monday night.
And amazingly much of it consisted of singing the theme music to a wrestler who six weeks ago was expected to be a major flop.
WWE Raw came from the Izod Centre, New Jersey, just yards from MetLife Stadium where Wrestlemania took place 24 hours previously.
It promised to be a historic show, as Raw the night after Mania tends to be. It was — but not for the reasons expected.
Throughout the three-hour show, the spectacle became the range of chants, resembling a football match, which at times entirely distracted from the in-ring action.
Things started with John Cena, who as expected was booed and taunted by fans.
Cena’s reaction was hilarious, though, including him pretending to dance a ‘heel turn’, a direct reference to a group of hardcore fans wanting to see him as an on-screen villain.
Then came the indicator that it was the transatlantic travelling fans that were the catalyst.
England’s Wade Barrett was rapturously cheered — a rare occurrence outside of the UK.
Barrett received chants of ‘Eng-er-land’ and ‘Wade Barrett’s barmy army’ before getting a massive ovation as he won the intercontinental title back from The Miz.
Soon, after Alberto Del Rio had been left ‘injured’ following a match with Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler cashed in Money in the Bank to become the new world heavyweight champion.
The reaction for his appearance and subsequent win was as loud as anything on Raw this century.
But it was when Sheamus and Randy Orton entered the ring that things went up a notch.
Before the fight began Orton appeared to entirely lose his stride, pausing mid-sentence and asking the Irishman, off mic, “What’s my line?”.
Once their match started – a perfectly acceptable encounter, by the way – all hell broke loose.
The fans, rejecting what they were presented with, made their own fun.
Chants came not for the two men in the ring but for Mike Chioda the referee, all three commentators, the late Randy Savage, Rob Van Dam (a free agent rumoured to be heading back to WWE) HBK and others, before it turned into a Mexican wave.
Before the match came to a conclusion, the 500lb Big Show monster they had teamed with the evening before came and took them both out. “Thank you, Big Show” cried New Jersey, in unison.
And there was Fandango. The man with the dancing gimmick waltzed to the ring, and the crowd began to join in with his entrance music. They then continued to sing it well into his match.
The crowd popped heavily for a Jericho run-in and beatdown, but resumed their cheers for Fandango after the fallen dancer breathlessly repeated his name, restarting their rendition of his theme.
The next match was the eight-person tag dropped from Mania involving Tons of Funk, Rhodes Scholars and The Bellas.
The crowd opted to ignore this and continue singing the Fandango theme.
The main event was John Cena v Mark Henry (the fans sang the World’s Strongest Man’s theme too) and as the new champ and his mammoth opponent locked the audience... sang the Fandango song again.
John Cena even danced a little to acknowledge their singing and got a rare ovation for doing so.
By the end of the night he had been left lying by Ryback, but this wasn’t the story.
On a night where two titles changed hands, storylines progressed and even Undertaker made an appearance that may signal his involvement at the next Pay Per View, the story of Raw was the crowd.
Last night the theme, named ‘ChaChaLaLa’, was at 156 in the UK iTunes charts – and rising.
We at SunSport supporting the campaign to get it charting. You can purchase it here.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, Raw in London at the O2 Arena is only a couple of weeks away, and we have a quickstep to learn.
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the sun
The link to purchase is here... https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/wwe-chachalala-fandango/id614738696?i=614739193
The campaign is spreading like wildfire and there's even a piece in a National Newspaper about it... BRITISH wrestling fans helped instigate one of the most incredible atmospheres in wrestling history on Monday night.
And amazingly much of it consisted of singing the theme music to a wrestler who six weeks ago was expected to be a major flop.
WWE Raw came from the Izod Centre, New Jersey, just yards from MetLife Stadium where Wrestlemania took place 24 hours previously.
It promised to be a historic show, as Raw the night after Mania tends to be. It was — but not for the reasons expected.
Throughout the three-hour show, the spectacle became the range of chants, resembling a football match, which at times entirely distracted from the in-ring action.
Things started with John Cena, who as expected was booed and taunted by fans.
Cena’s reaction was hilarious, though, including him pretending to dance a ‘heel turn’, a direct reference to a group of hardcore fans wanting to see him as an on-screen villain.
Then came the indicator that it was the transatlantic travelling fans that were the catalyst.
England’s Wade Barrett was rapturously cheered — a rare occurrence outside of the UK.
Barrett received chants of ‘Eng-er-land’ and ‘Wade Barrett’s barmy army’ before getting a massive ovation as he won the intercontinental title back from The Miz.
Soon, after Alberto Del Rio had been left ‘injured’ following a match with Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler cashed in Money in the Bank to become the new world heavyweight champion.
The reaction for his appearance and subsequent win was as loud as anything on Raw this century.
But it was when Sheamus and Randy Orton entered the ring that things went up a notch.
Before the fight began Orton appeared to entirely lose his stride, pausing mid-sentence and asking the Irishman, off mic, “What’s my line?”.
Once their match started – a perfectly acceptable encounter, by the way – all hell broke loose.
The fans, rejecting what they were presented with, made their own fun.
Chants came not for the two men in the ring but for Mike Chioda the referee, all three commentators, the late Randy Savage, Rob Van Dam (a free agent rumoured to be heading back to WWE) HBK and others, before it turned into a Mexican wave.
Before the match came to a conclusion, the 500lb Big Show monster they had teamed with the evening before came and took them both out. “Thank you, Big Show” cried New Jersey, in unison.
And there was Fandango. The man with the dancing gimmick waltzed to the ring, and the crowd began to join in with his entrance music. They then continued to sing it well into his match.
The crowd popped heavily for a Jericho run-in and beatdown, but resumed their cheers for Fandango after the fallen dancer breathlessly repeated his name, restarting their rendition of his theme.
The next match was the eight-person tag dropped from Mania involving Tons of Funk, Rhodes Scholars and The Bellas.
The crowd opted to ignore this and continue singing the Fandango theme.
The main event was John Cena v Mark Henry (the fans sang the World’s Strongest Man’s theme too) and as the new champ and his mammoth opponent locked the audience... sang the Fandango song again.
John Cena even danced a little to acknowledge their singing and got a rare ovation for doing so.
By the end of the night he had been left lying by Ryback, but this wasn’t the story.
On a night where two titles changed hands, storylines progressed and even Undertaker made an appearance that may signal his involvement at the next Pay Per View, the story of Raw was the crowd.
Last night the theme, named ‘ChaChaLaLa’, was at 156 in the UK iTunes charts – and rising.
We at SunSport supporting the campaign to get it charting. You can purchase it here.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, Raw in London at the O2 Arena is only a couple of weeks away, and we have a quickstep to learn.
Duh Duh. Da da dada da da da da. Duh duh dada da da da da...
the sun