According to wwe.com, Ricky Ortiz has been future endeavored. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone except maybe Ricky and his family. I keep hearing that he had a lot of charisma when he was in developmental, but wasn’t ready to be brought up. The charisma he had down there must have stayed down there because it always seemed like he was missing that certain something but was trying to make up for it with boundless enthusiasm. He was a very enthusiastic young man and I think that if he was given more time to mature, he might have become a solid worker and could have been one those guys like Kane, Khali and Koslov who could be bumped up the card when a main eventer needed a transitional feud while waiting for his turn at the getting a title feud.

Once upon a time I could see them bringing him back if he did things like not slag on the company or take a job with TNA, but unlike someone like Chris Masters who was recently brought back, Ricky never got anywhere near a main event on Raw or Smackdown as far as I can remember and I don’t see the world clamoring for his return. He might end up like Bull Buchanan (who I really liked during his run with the company) and just be forgotten until you watch a battle royal he was in a few years from now and you barely recognize him.

I would recommend that Tyler Reks learn everything he can, do everything they tell him to do with a smile and not rock the boat too much, because he reminds me a LOT of Chuck Palumbo and Ricky Ortiz and might be joining them on the outside.

Image originally found on Wikipedia, used under a public domain license.

I was not a big fan of The Boogeyman when he first debuted. I remember thinking that his name should have been ‘The Bullet’, because he was ammunition for people who thought that professional wrestling was an asinine thing to be interested in. (Seriously, I thought that.) Nothing that he has done in his time with the company has changed that initial opinion. He was a cringeworthy character to me. Every time he came on screen, I hoped that it would only be for a few minutes. Nick Densmore’s Eugene was the same type of character to me, but I had seen enough of Densmore’s OVW work to know there was something behind the bad gimmick.

I hate to see anybody lose their job in this economy, but I don’t see how Wright could have been repackaged. The way I see it, his current skill set would limit him to being a bodyguard type, but Ezekiel Jackson already has that gimmick. He also never really looked that big to me, a fact that was glaring when he was in the ring with Kane in his last ECW match. I’m not even going to touch on the age issue because in a business where Rey Mysterio Jr is beating people like The Big Show, Kane and Mike Knox, then a 44 year old can beat someone half his age.

I will give him credit, though. I never thought The Boogeyman character would last as long as it did, even discounting the injury that kept Wright away for a long time. I also don’t think that we have seen the last of The Boogeyman. Despite my dislike for the character, there is no denying that he is unique and I would not be surprised to see him pop up every now and then in a comedy role. Sort of like The Godfather, Kamala or Golddust (before he was re-signed by the company). The only real difference between those characters and The Boogeyman is that they were all around during WWE/WWE hot periods when a lot more mainstream attention was being paid.

I wish him luck on the indies because I also don’t see much of a future for him at TNA or ROH.