What a fucking awesome Smackdown so far (NO SPOILERS)

[Dorkchop]

It's only an hour into the show and it's been one of the most enjoyable shows I've seen in a while (including Raw, TNA, and WWECW). Anyone else loving it?

[Batsu]

It's OK... *spinoff post coming*

[Kane Knight]

I missed the first half hour having fun...But the next 45 minutes have been solid, especially the MVP/Kane match we just had.

[Dorkchop]

I missed the first half hour having fun...But the next 45 minutes have been solid, especially the MVP/Kane match we just had.

Did you see Regal?

[Team Sheep]

During the MVP/Kane match, you can see me right next to Kane shitting myself when he throws MVP into the barricade. :D

[Kane Knight]

Did you see Regal?

Aye. Sweet match.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Kane, Paul London, William Regal and to a lesser extent, MVP, are awesome. I don't know how wise it was to put Paul London in a match with Regal in England, but hopefully the fans don't sour of the babyfaces. I don't know where they are going with these Dave Taylor implications. He's going to need a different tag team partner.

I'm hoping that next week goes like this:

Kane is waiting for MVP to come to the ring for their Steel Cage Match, but Theodore Long comes out instead. Long informs Kane that MVP has no-showed the event, but he will be fined, and Kane will win the match via forfeit. Kane is none to happy about being denied an opponent, though. Long fixes this by booking Kane vs. Finlay, a man who loves to fight, in the main event inside the Steel Cage.

The match sees these two veterans applying their craft, but the ending sees MVP running out, slamming the cage door on Kane's head, and then hitting Kane on the head with a forfeign object. Finlay gets the pin over Kane, and what do you know, the match at Survivor Series just got a lot more interesting.

[AdrianM]

Smackdown was good yet again.

It's now become my favourite two hours of television a week.
MVP match was awesome, I reckon he's a real decent wrestler. Regal was awesome as always, and I reckon that was the best London match I've ever seen (only ever seen him in the WWE).

The main event was really good too, it seemed that extra bit more special with Lashley having his last match on SD!.

Overall, another great show by Smackdown

[Kane Knight]

It's my favorite hour of wrestling on TV.

Then again, I kind of want to ignore everything with the Boogeyman, Miz, or Hitler on it.

[Mr. Nerfect]

To be fair to The Boogeyman, I think the character does have some potential. I thoguth it did back when they announced he was an actor who just prepared for a role, but the show never came to fruition, so the WWE picked him up.

At the moment, it just seems so juvenile, though. He eats worms? How is that scary? A grade one child eats worms. I think it would be awesome if the character ONLY ate worms. Point out that they're all he eats, so he loses a lot of weight, which requires him to work out a lot. Turn him into a character of depravity, yet discipline, and point out how oxymoronic it seems, only to use his undefeated streak as evidence of his method's success.

The ideal way to bring him back was as Marty Wright, in my opinion. Have him wrestle his "debut match", and win it with kneel-out throat toss. King Booker approaches Wright in the match, and have him reveal he was impressed with Wright's abilities. Then have him say Wright reminds him of someone. Marty would then smile and laugh, noticeably missing his front teeth. King Booker would immediately know who it is, but didn't have the evidence to get another restraining order.

Marty Wright may not be a great worker, but if he had a few matches with Finlay, William Regal and King Booker, I could see people maybe being a little less adament against the guy.

I absolutely hate the current character, though. It needs some kind of substance to work.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Oh, and that reverse fisherman suplex Regal did was sick. :y:

[Kane Knight]

To be fair to The Boogeyman, I think the character does have some potential. I thoguth it did back when they announced he was an actor who just prepared for a role, but the show never came to fruition, so the WWE picked him up.

At the moment, it just seems so juvenile, though. He eats worms? How is that scary? A grade one child eats worms. I think it would be awesome if the character ONLY ate worms. Point out that they're all he eats, so he loses a lot of weight, which requires him to work out a lot. Turn him into a character of depravity, yet discipline, and point out how oxymoronic it seems, only to use his undefeated streak as evidence of his method's success.

The ideal way to bring him back was as Marty Wright, in my opinion. Have him wrestle his "debut match", and win it with kneel-out throat toss. King Booker approaches Wright in the match, and have him reveal he was impressed with Wright's abilities. Then have him say Wright reminds him of someone. Marty would then smile and laugh, noticeably missing his front teeth. King Booker would immediately know who it is, but didn't have the evidence to get another restraining order.

Marty Wright may not be a great worker, but if he had a few matches with Finlay, William Regal and King Booker, I could see people maybe being a little less adament against the guy.

I absolutely hate the current character, though. It needs some kind of substance to work.

See, the problem is, I agree with you. I liked the Boogeyman character at first. Then I got bored. OH LOOK HE'S EATING WORMS! I don't care. Ummm...What else is he doing? Well, he did the funky chicken, smiled, and ate some more worms.

[Dorkchop]

They just need to do new thigns with the Boogeyman. Why not actually have him, you know, scare people in and out of the ring. He can pop out of nowhere like he used to. Since he's a face, have him haunt and scare the crap out of the heels for all the crap they do. The character practically writes itself.

[TerranRich]

To be fair to The Boogeyman, I think the character does have some potential. I thoguth it did back when they announced he was an actor who just prepared for a role, but the show never came to fruition, so the WWE picked him up.

At the moment, it just seems so juvenile, though. He eats worms? How is that scary? A grade one child eats worms. I think it would be awesome if the character ONLY ate worms. Point out that they're all he eats, so he loses a lot of weight, which requires him to work out a lot. Turn him into a character of depravity, yet discipline, and point out how oxymoronic it seems, only to use his undefeated streak as evidence of his method's success.

The ideal way to bring him back was as Marty Wright, in my opinion. Have him wrestle his "debut match", and win it with kneel-out throat toss. King Booker approaches Wright in the match, and have him reveal he was impressed with Wright's abilities. Then have him say Wright reminds him of someone. Marty would then smile and laugh, noticeably missing his front teeth. King Booker would immediately know who it is, but didn't have the evidence to get another restraining order.

Marty Wright may not be a great worker, but if he had a few matches with Finlay, William Regal and King Booker, I could see people maybe being a little less adament against the guy.

I absolutely hate the current character, though. It needs some kind of substance to work.

Alienoid, man, only you can make the Boogeyman character work.

I don't know, after playing Season Mode in Smackdown Vs RAW 2007 as the Boogeyman, hearing him talk in a semi-normal voice kinda made me wonder if his character would work if it were toned down a bit. Like he started acting normal, lost some of his face paint as a metaphor for this, and, I don't know, actually had worthwhile feuds. But I like your idea better.

Thing is, Boogeyman looks better WITH the face paint than without:

http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/b/boogeyman/05.jpg

[TerranRich]

They just need to do new thigns with the Boogeyman. Why not actually have him, you know, scare people in and out of the ring. He can pop out of nowhere like he used to. Since he's a face, have him haunt and scare the crap out of the heels for all the crap they do. The character practically writes itself.
This makes a lot of sense, too. But problem is, that would never really go anywhere. I don't know, I could be wrong, but how should a feud like Boogey vs. Some Heel work out? And I mean a real heel, not the Miz

[Dorkchop]

Just have a heel do something bad in a match, or in the ring, or whenever... Like hit a diva or something like that. Then the Boogeyman can haunt/scare/Heidenrape them or something.

[Testicle]

Heidenrape, nice

[TerranRich]

Boogeyrape

Dorkchop, that sounds great and all, but where would it then go? That's the problem with Boogeyman, it's hard to come up with angles for him that would go anywhere good, and would have some sort of finale/blowoff that would wrap it up nicely.

[Dorkchop]

Damn, you're right. Off the top of my head I can't think of how to wrap up him Boogeyraping people.

Maybe for a big time feud, he could Boogeyrape them so bad, that evetually they turn face. They realise all the bad crap they've done, and how it effected other people.

Boogeyman is a freaking Jesus and Satan hybrid.

But that might not work in the long run because uber baby faces aren't working right now in wrestling.

[TerranRich]

Okay, I think I have it.

Boogeyman stalks some super heel in his usual fashion. At some point heel is scared shitless and disappears for a week or two. Then he returns, a new man...changed to the point where he decided to extract revenge on Boogeyman.

Yeah, that basically lengthens the angle, doesn't wrap it up. Oh well. I tried. :(

[Kane Knight]

Damn, you're right. Off the top of my head I can't think of how to wrap up him Boogeyraping people.

I can wrap it up in 10 words:

We wish the Boogeyman the best in his future endeavors.

I think it's the only way out.

Honestly, I'd like to see him come out at some point and say, "you know, this whole thing was supposed to be a joke. It just got carried too far." Have him go about his business as a "normal" guy (Whether they use his name or not). The whole time, whoever he's been feuding with starts shit with him over and over again. Then have strange things start happening. Even though Boogey's evidently not responsible. He can fervently deny it, too. Then his face paint can appear on screen during his matches, and scream "I know what you did last summer!" And start scaring them both.

...Wait, I think that's slipping into Kane's last big angle.

[TerranRich]

See, you're right, that's the only way to do anything useful with the Boogeyman: drop the gimmick altogether.