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Martin (Marty) Wright (born 1964) is a professional wrestler, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand as The Boogeyman.
Statistics
Stage names Marty Wright
"Liar" Marty Wright
The Boogeyman
Height 6 ft 2 in (187.96 cm)
Weight 255 lb (102 kg)
Born 1964
Hometown
Billed from Parts Unknown
The Bottomless Pit
Trained by OVW Staff
Debut 2003
Career
Tough Enough
Wright applied to take part in Tough Enough 4, and on October 15, 2004, the physically imposing Wright attended a fifty man, two day event in Venice Beach, California where eight finalists would be chosen. Wright survived the first day of eliminations, but on the second day he admitted under interrogation that he was not thirty, as he had previously maintained, but was in fact forty, born in 1964. Wright was cut from the Tough Enough prospectives as a result.
OVW
Though he was no longer able to go forward as a Tough Enough contestant he was offered an opportunity in WWE farm league Ohio Valley Wrestling. In short order he was able to impress the decision makers with his in charisma and love of wrestling and was offered a three year contract with WWE.
Wright re-debuted in OVW on June 25, 2005. During an untelevised match pitting the team of Seth Skyfire and Robert Fury against Vik Delicious and Robbie Dawber, Wright entered the ring and squashed Fury, Delicious and Dawber, no-selling the offense of Skyfire. He then announced that he was "The Boogeyman" before leaving the building. It was announced on July 2 that Wright had a record of "psychological problems" and "bodily assault" and had been both rejected from Tough Enough and denied training at OVW. The fact that Wright had lied in order to take part in Tough Enough was developed into a gimmick, with Wright being described as a "sociopathical liar" (the claims that he was formely in prison are not true). Wright's ring entrance included special effects such as lightning and torrential rain.
OVW lead booker Jim Cornette was released from WWE after repeatedly slapping Johnny Geo Basco, an OVW wrestling student who was inserted into the audience as a plant to further the Boogeyman gimmick but laughed instead of showing fear. Cornette felt that Basco had ruined the angle and had broken kayfabe.
SmackDown!
On the July 11 episode of RAW, the first of a few vignettes, in the style of horror movies, promoted the debut of Wright in his Boogeyman personna, these aired first on RAW but mainly on SmackDown! for several weeks. Unfortunatley his debut was delayed when he hyperextended both knees and needed time to heal.
The Boogeyman finally made his first appearance on SmackDown! on October 14, 2005 as a face but with a weird gimmick. The storyline said he was being brought in by "Network Executive" Palmer Canon and originally he was supposed to be on another UPN series which was cancelled (they never stated why, just that it had "run in to problems") but since he had an iron-clad UPN contract Canon was just going to port him to SmackDown! as part of a "New Talent Initiative". Wright proceeded to recite an eerie nursery rhyme and then smashed a clock over his head.
Over the next few weeks The Boogeyman would appear backstage on SmackDown! and continue reciting different nursery rhymes and holding up (increasingly larger to begin with) clocks before screaming his catch phrase "I'm The Boogeyman and I'm comin' to get'cha!". Invariably this would leave whichever wrestlers or performers that had discovered him both confused and "creeped out", usually ending with them backing out of the room slowly while the commentators remarked on how weird the whole situation was. During a short run of cross-brand shows WWE champ John Cena found him in a small backstage closet and JBL opened a van door to find nothing but The Boogeyman.
At the 2005 Survivor Series, The Boogeyman helped Theodore Long defeat Eric Bischoff by grabbing Bischoff from behind and hitting him with a Pump Handle Slam, leaving him unconcious.
The Boogeyman made his in-ring debut on the December 2 episode of "SmackDown!". He defeated Simon Dean in a squash match that saw him eat worms and repeatedly scream "I am the Boogeyman!" at a confused and terrified Dean. The Boogeyman's pyro consist of red fog which covers the whole arena. Upon his entrance he stands on the ramp way covered by this fog. He then smashes a clock over his head signaling fire to shoot up from the ramp way.
Wrestling facts
Finishing and signature moves
Pumphandle slam
Supernatural Driver (Inverted falling slam)
Two handed choke lift into a single hand chokeslam (in OVW)
Quotes
"I'm the Boogeyman, and I'm comin' ta getcha!"
"Tick....Tock....Tick....Tock"
Trivia
The Boogeyman character appears to be missing his front teeth, but in truth, Wright has all his teeth.
Martin (Marty) Wright (born 1964) is a professional wrestler, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand as The Boogeyman.
Statistics
Stage names Marty Wright
"Liar" Marty Wright
The Boogeyman
Height 6 ft 2 in (187.96 cm)
Weight 255 lb (102 kg)
Born 1964
Hometown
Billed from Parts Unknown
The Bottomless Pit
Trained by OVW Staff
Debut 2003
Career
Tough Enough
Wright applied to take part in Tough Enough 4, and on October 15, 2004, the physically imposing Wright attended a fifty man, two day event in Venice Beach, California where eight finalists would be chosen. Wright survived the first day of eliminations, but on the second day he admitted under interrogation that he was not thirty, as he had previously maintained, but was in fact forty, born in 1964. Wright was cut from the Tough Enough prospectives as a result.
OVW
Though he was no longer able to go forward as a Tough Enough contestant he was offered an opportunity in WWE farm league Ohio Valley Wrestling. In short order he was able to impress the decision makers with his in charisma and love of wrestling and was offered a three year contract with WWE.
Wright re-debuted in OVW on June 25, 2005. During an untelevised match pitting the team of Seth Skyfire and Robert Fury against Vik Delicious and Robbie Dawber, Wright entered the ring and squashed Fury, Delicious and Dawber, no-selling the offense of Skyfire. He then announced that he was "The Boogeyman" before leaving the building. It was announced on July 2 that Wright had a record of "psychological problems" and "bodily assault" and had been both rejected from Tough Enough and denied training at OVW. The fact that Wright had lied in order to take part in Tough Enough was developed into a gimmick, with Wright being described as a "sociopathical liar" (the claims that he was formely in prison are not true). Wright's ring entrance included special effects such as lightning and torrential rain.
OVW lead booker Jim Cornette was released from WWE after repeatedly slapping Johnny Geo Basco, an OVW wrestling student who was inserted into the audience as a plant to further the Boogeyman gimmick but laughed instead of showing fear. Cornette felt that Basco had ruined the angle and had broken kayfabe.
SmackDown!
On the July 11 episode of RAW, the first of a few vignettes, in the style of horror movies, promoted the debut of Wright in his Boogeyman personna, these aired first on RAW but mainly on SmackDown! for several weeks. Unfortunatley his debut was delayed when he hyperextended both knees and needed time to heal.
The Boogeyman finally made his first appearance on SmackDown! on October 14, 2005 as a face but with a weird gimmick. The storyline said he was being brought in by "Network Executive" Palmer Canon and originally he was supposed to be on another UPN series which was cancelled (they never stated why, just that it had "run in to problems") but since he had an iron-clad UPN contract Canon was just going to port him to SmackDown! as part of a "New Talent Initiative". Wright proceeded to recite an eerie nursery rhyme and then smashed a clock over his head.
Over the next few weeks The Boogeyman would appear backstage on SmackDown! and continue reciting different nursery rhymes and holding up (increasingly larger to begin with) clocks before screaming his catch phrase "I'm The Boogeyman and I'm comin' to get'cha!". Invariably this would leave whichever wrestlers or performers that had discovered him both confused and "creeped out", usually ending with them backing out of the room slowly while the commentators remarked on how weird the whole situation was. During a short run of cross-brand shows WWE champ John Cena found him in a small backstage closet and JBL opened a van door to find nothing but The Boogeyman.
At the 2005 Survivor Series, The Boogeyman helped Theodore Long defeat Eric Bischoff by grabbing Bischoff from behind and hitting him with a Pump Handle Slam, leaving him unconcious.
The Boogeyman made his in-ring debut on the December 2 episode of "SmackDown!". He defeated Simon Dean in a squash match that saw him eat worms and repeatedly scream "I am the Boogeyman!" at a confused and terrified Dean. The Boogeyman's pyro consist of red fog which covers the whole arena. Upon his entrance he stands on the ramp way covered by this fog. He then smashes a clock over his head signaling fire to shoot up from the ramp way.
Wrestling facts
Finishing and signature moves
Pumphandle slam
Supernatural Driver (Inverted falling slam)
Two handed choke lift into a single hand chokeslam (in OVW)
Quotes
"I'm the Boogeyman, and I'm comin' ta getcha!"
"Tick....Tock....Tick....Tock"
Trivia
The Boogeyman character appears to be missing his front teeth, but in truth, Wright has all his teeth.