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| Marty Wright | |
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| Born | October 31,1964 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Marty Wright "Liar" Marty Wright The Boogeyman |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
| Billed weight | 260 lb (118 kg) |
| Billed from | The Bottomless Pit |
| Trained by | OVW Staff |
| Debut | 2003 |
Martin (Marty) Wright (born October 31 1964) is a professional wrestler, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown! brand as The Boogeyman. He is also a part-time actor and stuntman.
Information regarding his past
He may in fact be the brother of retired professional wrestler Charles Wright who in the early 1990s had the same type of gimmick involving a black magic voodoo type entrance and similar in ring styles, along with a smoking staff carried in the left hand and elaborate face paint. The personas of both individuals are the same on many levels, they are both of African American descent, share a last name and are only 3 years apart.
Pre - Professional Wrestling Career
Career as a bodybuilder
Wright originally intended to be a professional bodybuilder. He won some competitions, the only recorded such victory noted online is the 2002 NPC
Southern States Contest from August 2-3, 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the men's over 35 years, super heavyweight division. This career ultimately did not work out for him.
Career as a actor
Wright would later set his sights on becoming an actor mainly as an extra and performing as a stuntman. He appeared in the movies Any Given Sunday (1999) as player #84 of the Miami Sharks known as "Beastman", in The Replacements (2000) as Butler, a defensive back #56 of Dallas, and in Transporter 2 (2005) as the SWAT commander.
Professional Wrestling Career
Tough Enough
Wright applied to take part in Tough Enough 4. 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 the WWE farm league Ohio Valley Wrestling. In short order he was able to impress the decision makers with his in-ring charisma and love of wrestling and was offered a three-year contract with the 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 formerly 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 said 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 vignettes first aired on RAW, then on SmackDown! for several weeks. 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 with a weird gimmick; the storyline said he was being brought in by Network Executive Palmer Canon, who claimed he was going to be on another unspecified network show that never came to be. Canon said he brought him to SmackDown! as part of a "new talent initiative." Wright proceeded to recite an eerie nursery rhyme and then smashed an oversized alarm 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 clocks before screaming his catch phrase "I'm The Boogeyman and I'm comin' to get'cha!" This would leave whichever 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 strange the whole situation was. During a short run of cross-brand shows, WWE Champion John Cena found him in a small backstage closet and JBL opened a van door to find him inside.
At the 2005 Survivor Series, The Boogeyman helped Theodore Long defeat Eric Bischoff with a Pumphandle Slam. The Boogeyman then made his in-ring WWE debut on the December 2, 2005 episode of "SmackDown!" He defeated Simon Dean with the Supernatural Driver in a squash that saw him eat worms and repeatedly scream, "I am the Boogeyman!" at a confused and terrified Dean. Wright's entrance effects include red steam which covers the whole arena. Upon his entrance he stands on the ramp way covered by this fog. He carries a voodoo looking staff with him which also expells steam. He then smashes a clock over his head signaling fire to shoot up from the stage. On his way to the ring he starts to do a dance (its more of a compulsave shaking) and continues it once he gets in the ring with large amounts of red steam still floating in the arena.
On December 5, 2005, The Boogeyman made a surprise appearance on RAW substituting himself for Simon Dean as a witness during the "trial" of Eric Bischoff. His bizarre entrance to and exit from the witness box (rising up and dissapearing down from/to nowhere), as well as his nursery rhyme-like testimony left Vince McMahon, The Coach, and Bischoff astonished (but apparently entertained Mick Foley who went on eating the dessert from his "lunch", albeit with a bit of a shocked expression on his face).
The next few weeks saw The Boogeyman go on a tear, winning squash matches against the likes of Ray Gordy (son of the late Terry Gordy) & Nunzio (starting a mini feud with the team of Nunzio & Vito in the process). Invariably these matches were short on actual wrestling content, instead focusing on the antics of The Boogeyman. Opponents were left with worms in their mouths and spit on their faces while The Boogeyman danced around screaming.
He had his official Pay-Per-View debut at the December 18th show Armageddon where he came down to confront Vito & Nunzio who were dressed as Santa Claus and an Elf. Though Nunzio was able to escape Vito suffered a Goodnight and ended up with worms shoved into his mouth.
Recently He has been stalking JBL and his "Fixer" Jillian Hall, and Recently stuffed live worms in her panties on the Jan 6 2006 edition of Friday Night Smackdown!
Boogeyman was scheduled to be the guest in Roddy Piper's Piper's Pit on the Jan 13 2006 edition of Friday Night Smackdown! However, JBL confronted Piper beforehand, and asked to be to be the guest instead of the Boogeyman. Piper initially refused but later agreed to the change. Boogeyman suddenly appeared, and JBL immediately shoved Jillian Hall towards him. This prompted Boogeyman to bite off Jillian Hall's growth.
Wrestling facts
Finishing and signature moves
- Goodnight (Pumphandle slam)
- Supernatural Driver (Inverted falling slam)
- Two handed choke lift into a single hand chokeslam (in OVW)
Weapons
Quotes
- "I'm the BOOGEYMAN, and I'm comin' TO GETCHA!!! (evil laughter) YEAH! (more evil laughter)"
- "Tick....Tock....Tick....Tock"
- "Evil Laughter" (following the nursery rhymes)
- "Your greatest..FEEAARR!!" (smashes clock over his head)
- "Time for a new face in this place"
- "I'M COMIN TO GET'CHA" (starts attacking his opponent)
- "As long time goes near, the future becomes more clear..."
Trivia
- According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Wright's teeth were knocked out during a training match in 2005. (This is largely disputed however).
- The worms he eats are real, as seen in the episode of Smackdown! on December 16th 2005.
- The term "Bottomless Pit" came from the Barringer meteor crater in Winslow, Arizona.
External links
- WWE Profile
- The Boogeyman by Mike Roe, OVW Specialist, PW Torch, Dec 7, 2005
- The Boogeyman entry at Obsessedwithwrestling.com
- Only Known Non-Wrestling information of him