20 DUMB WWE Gimmick Changes (That We Didn't Want To Admit Were GENIUS)

20. The Boogeyman Comes To Get You (Forever!)

Imagine this: Someone pulls you aside in the summer of 2005 and says, 'Psst! The Boogeyman will be one of WWE's most enduring characters!'. You'd have laughed right in their stupid face. How could Marty Wright's cartoonish horror nonsense endure? Well, it has.

That imaginary person from '05 was bang on.

Nobody could've predicted that such an overtly silly character as this would become one of WWE's go to cameo bookings for a generation. Boogey hasn't appeared for a few years now, granted, but we're coming up to the 20 year mark since he debuted his worm-eating ploy to bag a company contract.

That's remarkable for something so one-note. It's almost impossible to name a handful of Boogeyman matches, and yet he'll likely show up again here or there in the future whenever creative needs something easy to get a nostalgia pop. Who the hell saw this wrestlecrap-worthy gimmick hanging around so long?!