In the 1980s, Jake The Snake Roberts would gently drape his pet python across his prone opponents face after winning the match. Yes, we heard it too. Stop sniggering in the back, or youll see us after class. It was a typically late eighties/early nineties WWF gimmick: cartoonish and made for the kind of quality television product produced by the McMahons (after all, most live crowds couldnt see the snake properly). Jake was so committed and intense as a performer, however, that he managed to pull it off allowing the audience the suspension of disbelief required to go along with the idea that having a mid-size snake lowered onto you was legitimately the worst thing in the world. Even facing a nothing opponent in a nothing match had heat to it when the crowd knew what was coming after the pinfall. Fast forward to 2005, and Marty Wright was no Jake Roberts. A failed Tough Enough applicant, Wright had somehow impressed someone at the WWE sufficiently to get a contract, despite being in his forties with no real wrestling ability or experience. Rather than a snake, the Boogeyman placed live worms in and around the mouth of his fallen opponents which was somehow even worse than an actual python. As a concept, the Boogeyman was even more of a turkey than the Gobbledy Gooker, yet once again the performers unswerving commitment to the role managed to get the character (and the worms) over with the crowd, if for only a very short time basically, until they found out that playing the Boogeyman was the only thing Wright was any good at. Like we said, he was no Jake the Snake Roberts: but we hope that hes managed to find a new job where his experience in eating worms and smashing oversized alarm clocks over his head are transferrable skills.