COLOHUE – Winner Leaves Town: Breezango – WWE Talent Who Would Do Better Elsewhere

Indy wrestling right now is under a huge surge in popularity. There are more wrestlers, more talent, more promotions and enough TV time to drown in. Wrestling is coming back in a big way.

The affect that this has had on the WWE is huge. Not only can WWE essentially snare ready made talent with a good start of drawing power but those WWE talents who get lost in the shuffle have a legitimate avenue of escape. WWE might give you drawing power but the room at the top isn’t infinite. Three members of the class of 2002, the continual returns of the Rock, even names such as Kurt Angle now are being used in favoured spots because they make money.

What they don’t make is new stars and this is where other federations stand to gain from the WWE’s business model. I’ve got fourteen names, two of which are tag teams and I’m going to run them down one a week because I believe that these are people who would do better outside of the WWE.

I’m Tom Colohue and this is Winner Leaves Town.

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Breezango

This is most definitely the perfect time to talk about Breezango. I was going to talk about them last week. Tyler Breeze and Fandango retweeted a Fashion Files tweet, completed with Road Dogg giving it a like and that was pretty sweet. It was a big deal; very nice of them and they could still do way better elsewhere.

Instead, Zack Ryder came last week because of the Hype Bros breakdown. This worked out pretty well given that this week it was announced that the Fashion Files was now a WWE.com exclusive.

This means that Breezango will no longer be getting national TV exposure and essentially signals the end of a push that started just after Wrestlemania.

In many ways, this is a big problem going forwards. Breezango are not a team that has been pushed much outside of the Fashion Files. They have barely wrestled, they’ve only had one title match and their PPV appearances have been sporadic at best.

So, have Breezango even had a real push? I would have to say no.

Now this is in no way the fault of Breezango. In fact they’ve been part of a real tag team scene overhaul. Their wrestling is solid and smooth and they both have a couple of moves in their arsenal that aren’t popularly used. They both have a good future it would seem but that doesn’t change the fact that they could do better elsewhere.

Focussing almost entirely on the Fashion Files alone, Breezango could definitely follow the older Zack Ryder route. Even just using YouTube the Fashion Files have a solid following already and could only grow with expansion. Fandango and Breeze have great comic timing and the chance that they will become popular is very high.

The Fashion Files have a leg up on Being The Elite in a couple of ways. Firstly, they already have a lot of exposure via WWE programming. Secondly, the concept of Fashion Police is a lot more accessible to non-wrestling fans than the Being The Elite concept.

Naturally, a popular wrestler who is also a capable wrestler is going to be successful almost wherever they go. In WWE Breezango’s route is blocked by some very established tag teams. Most of these teams have already been with the company a long time and aren’t going anywhere any time soon. How are Breezango supposed to get ahead of The Usos, The New Day, The Shield, Sheamus and Cesaro and The Hardy Boyz?

As long as those teams are there, Breezango don’t really have much of a chance, do they?

Breezango are another one who could go almost anywhere. While I can’t see them fitting too comfortably into the Bullet Club, there is plenty of potential in a self-promoting machine like Breezango. Ring of Honor holds immense promise, especially if they have open contracts that allow them to explore the indy circuit. TNA is there but seems more likely to be a limiter than a release in the same way that ROH would.

Certainly an open contract seems the best bet, allowing Breezango to work little and often and develop a reputation of being available in a location only briefly. Building exclusively on the Fashion Police concept could open a lot of doors.

At the very least settling in another company would result in a solid in-ring push rather than what they have just finished; a pre-recorded push. Certainly you can become popular that way but later in their careers Breezango may struggle to get out of the stereotype that they are mere gimmicks. There’s a lot of talent there and it’s talent that deserves a real push.

Sometimes the only way to get that push, unfortunately, is to move on.

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