Rick Boogs has revealed two creative pitches he made to WWE that never made it to television, including a concept built around prepping his fellow wrestlers for matches in a bodybuilding-themed segment and a gimmick involving prescription goggles.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Boogs described the Thick Rick’s Pump Club concept he wanted to bring to WWE television, which would have seen him preparing other performers for matches in elaborate physical preparation segments, with a storyline reason for their performances tied to his influence.
“I’m like, Brother, let me get you ready for whatever match. Because for the most part, he just goes out there and gets walloped anyways. You get him saying a lot of times he cuts an amazing promo, gets himself over. So you can look great getting walloped. This will give you a reason why you got squashed. Join me in Thick Rick’s Pump Club, where I will get you and obviously we have to document this. The camera will be in here. I’m putting you through all these different movements. You’re so pumped, which is why he loses. His delts are so pumped he can’t throw it, or it’s a beat too late, because Thick Rick’s Pump Club,” Boogs said.
He also revealed that Triple H and William Regal were not appreciative of the moment he famously used The Miz as a barbell on television.
“Triple H and Regal weren’t very fond of that kind of stuff. I find that a bit upsetting,” Boogs said.
Earlier in his WWE career, Boogs also pitched a legally blind character built around prescription rec specs as his initial concept before the guitar-playing persona was developed.
“I wear these rec specs, really strong prescription. I’m legally blind without them, so I just kick so much ass when I have my rec specs on. But then every match, whatever the cut off is, they get pulled off my head, and now I can’t see. I’m swinging. I’m getting my ass kicked. When they fly out of my hands, I keep pretty good. And eventually I get them on, I can see everything crystal clear, and I fire up and kick his ass, or they come off, and then I eat the pin,” Boogs said, expressing frustration that the idea was dismissed as a one-off concept.
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