Boogie Woogie Man

James Harold Fanning (born August 6, 1942) is a semi-retired professional wrestler and author better known as Boogie Woogie Man. He is most notable for his disappearance in 1999 after working for World of Marc Mero America. The aftermath of this disapperance led to a five-year criminal investigation on Marc Mero in 2002. He also wrestled.

Gimmick
Boogie Woogie Man was one of the best dancers in the world. Since there were only two dancers in the world, Mr. Woogie would constantly strut his stuff in spite of the plebians who couldn't. Because of this, he developed a feud with the only other dancer in the entire world, Alex Wright. At Xtreme Rulez, they would have the greatest "dance showcase" known to any wrestling fan, but a second-rate wrestling match to a dancing fan. The match was ruled in BWM's favor because his moves were so fresh.

This feud quickly turned into a friendship for the two dancers. Realizing that they had a god-given gift that no one else did, they started to dance together. However, these fits of dancing would always end up interrupted. At the Jushin Liger Tribute Show, the party crasher was a coked up Matt Borne. The dance quickly turned into an outlet for Borne to talk about how he needs to sink his face into so much cocaine that he looks like a fucking clown. Wright and BWM decided to dance somewhere else, but then BWM said some racist shit and Wright dumped him into the street while calling him a bigot.

Realizing that he was of a dying breed, he formed a master/protege relationship with that great rookie Boyce LeGrande. With this, he taught LeGrande the art of the dance. At Trigger Happy Havoc, BWM was there to celebrate with Boyce after he defeated Jerry Lynn in a Last Man Standing match. From there, they started to dance with what little time he had left. They boogied their hearts out at the Get Us to Japan Fundraiser, which actually caused the most donations from anything in the fundraiser to get them off the screen.

Boogie Woogie Man's final match would come at Y1.999K when he faced Chainsaw Charlie. The debut edition of the Legendary Price is Right ended in a loss for the dancer. After the match, Charlie told BWM to "come on down", which was either him not even knowing the rules of his own game or Boogie Woogie Man having a stroke and seeing things out of order. Either way, he was never seen again.

Trivia

 * Boogie Woogie Man's body was never found. Some believe he just left this mortal realm because he felt like it.
 * It was determined afterward that the ability to dance was genetic and he was therefore danceist.
 * Alex Wright's reaction to Boogie Woogie Man's racism was so violent that his outlook entirely changed and he became Alex Wleft.