DIRTY BASTARDS That Made Wrestling GROSS! ?
5. The Boogeyman
The man ate worms and drooled as he did it. This was absolutely revolting to look at, but trust WWE as an organisation to take a visual as repulsive as that and ask "what if he grossed out the heels and made the faces laugh?".
WWE's affection for The Boogeyman character a decade and a half after it briefly took the company by storm is almost sweet, not least because it allows for sentences such as "took the company by storm" to feel true even if the novelty of the gimmick never really stretched beyond his weird entrance.
A throwback character that crucially knew it was a throwback, Marty Wright's monster from under the bed couldn't be a heel despite being ostensibly terrifying. Creatures don't and can't work as heels because if one has magic powers, then surely anybody can get them and the authorities should be made aware. But turning the bullied school kid bit into an act of revenge against some of the worst bad guys imaginable was almost pathos from one of the promotion's grottiest eras.