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Originally Posted by DrA
FOX paid over a billion dollars for WWE Smackdown under the assumption that Andrade was going to on the show, so I think the least Vince could do is to give them what they paid for.
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Andrade wasn't even their first choice for Hispanic star to cater to their Hispanic market.
They wanted Rey first and even had him appear in ads leading up to the debut on FOX but WWE decided against it in the end. Then they asked for Andrade as a replacement and didn't get him either.
The key to that whole mess was USA Network actually paid more for RAW than FOX did for SD so WWE had to make sure USA wasn't left unhappy by all of FOX's talent requests but ended up swinging too hard in favor of USA.