10 Wild Creative Pitches Wrestlers Made To Get Into WWE
4. Rick Boogs Knows Where He's Working, At Least
Rick Boogs was born to be a prelim comedy act on North American TV, and that is far from an insult.
Not the most refined pro wrestler, he has found the ideal WWE-friendly niche and was really starting to connect with crowds before suffering an unfortunate and serious injury at WrestleMania this year. Animated, charismatic, goofy - while perfect Vince McMahon fodder, the difference is that his heavy metal dumbass persona was actually amusing enough to raise a smile beyond the audience of one. Doing the air guitar during an abdominal stretch and caterwauling like Rob Halford, Boogs took a shockingly long amount of time to get to the main roster, considering his act was Fed-ready from the moment he first appeared in Full Sail.
He revealed on After The Bell with Corey Graves that, desperate to get on TV before actually making it, he once pitched an artist persona who would go by 'Art Von Boogs', who'd taunt or threaten his opponents in a manner not unlike Dexter Lumis.
It was doomed too out there, which is just as well: that high-pitched squeal would have been wasted, otherwise.