Headbanger Mosh says Beaver Cleavage was “one of the worst gimmicks in the history of wrestling”

You have one match, but it lives on forever. Here we are, 27 years later, still talking about it. “I have one of the worst gimmicks in the history of wrestling.”

Do you think it was one of the worst gimmicks? “Probably. I still to this day don’t know where it truly came from, how the idea came up. I mean, I think the vignettes could possibly be some of the best vignettes ever done. They’re hysterical. I mean, I’m sitting there, and I come out of a room, and I tell my mother that I can’t find the cat. I can’t find a cat anywhere. She turns around. She goes, ‘You can’t find pussy?’ I go, ‘No, I can’t find pussy anywhere.’ Meanwhile, she’s peeling a zucchini, and she goes, ‘Well, Pussy is probably under the bed. I know what would get pussy…’ I have a scrape on my knee, and she’s cleaning my knees, and I go, ‘When it comes to working on your knees, my mom knows best.’ I mean, they’re priceless. There were no rules back then. Do whatever you have to do to get over, to draw ratings.”

So you have no idea where this idea came from? “I have a general guess. First overseas where we went to Kuwait. It’s the first overseas tour I was ever on. Jerry Brisco was the agent in charge of the trip. He gets my passport. He starts laughing. Now, my passport picture at that point was from when I was 20 years old. So he looks at it, and he starts laughing, and he goes, ‘Oh, look at you. You look just like Leave It to Beaver.’ I’m like, Okay? So like that trip I was called Beav, and then I found this out the other day. I didn’t know this. Bruce Pritchard was a huge Leave It to Beaver fan. So everyone wants to blame it on Russo. I mean, Russo helped with the vignettes, and he was there when we did all the vignettes. But I don’t know who actually came up with the idea of, let’s have a Leave It to Beaver character, and we’re going to insinuate that he’s having sex with his mother. I don’t know who came up with it, but when it was presented to me, I was like, okay. I was home, Glenn was hurt. He was rehabbing his knee. I’m gonna get used, I’m gonna be on TV. If I’m on TV, then I go to house shows. I make money when I’m on house shows, because back then, we didn’t have a guaranteed contract. So I’m like, sure, whatever. I’d never done singles before, other than those three matches I had my first when I first started down at Monster Factory. I was like, Yeah, this will be cool. The vignettes were funny. Then for me, it was a character. So I was able to dive into this big kid wearing a propeller hat, burying my face in my mother’s boobs every time I went out to the TV or staring at her boobs. Everything revolved around my head being in her boobs. So I was like, This is funny. It’s fun, I don’t know, we’ll see what happens.”

I don’t think people realize it lasted like a month: “No, it was literally five weeks. Yeah, it was five weeks. So I did the four vignettes. Then I had the one match with Christian, and then I think it was maybe one or two weeks later, they had me walk off the set live. It was in Memphis. It was live on TV.”

What was the idea to kill this character?: “I think there were things behind the scenes. Owen had just had his accident and passed. There was some sexual harassment charges being discussed or thrown out. I don’t know if they ever happened or not. So anything that was edgy like that, they were squashing right away.”