10 WWE Ideas EVEN Vince McMahon Thought Were Too Sleazy
10. Beaver Loves Cleavage
Vince McMahon had two 'white whales' he was beyond driven to pursue throughout his career as a wrestling promoter. One was to pack 100,000 punters into a football stadium, which he managed with a bald-faced lie.
The other was to script two blood relatives to f*ck each other on television.
In 1999, a series of rancid vignettes aired hyping the arrival of 'Beaver Cleavage'. A riff on Leave It To Beaver's preadolescent protagonist, where the Beaver of the 1960s staple got into various scrapes, discovering in the end that good behaviour is rewarded, the WWF's Beaver was named after a fanny and wanted to suck his mother's t*ts. This was the full scope of a gimmick that worked just the one televised match against Christian: he used his mischievous disposition to get his mother to touch him.
And if you're wondering why a man in arrested development with such a grotesquely close bond with his mother would choose the life of a travelling combat athlete, fear not: Mrs. Cleavage accompanied Beaver to the ring, allowing the WWF to promote another buxom blonde on TV.
This was too disgusting even for the most overtly 'Vince Russo' period of the WWF, and was swiftly abandoned.