10 Stupidest Things WWE Attitude Era Stars Had To Do
9. Beaver Cleavage/Chaz - "Shooting" On His Gimmick And His Girlfriend
More on The Headbangers elsewhere in this list, but WWE got really f*cking weird with former member Mosh during a long injury layoff for Thrasher in 1999.
Borrowing from 1950s sitcom Leave It To Beaver (a dreaded Vince McMahon/Vince Russo sweet spot, even if it was nobody else's in the 18-35 demographic they were smashing at the time), the renamed Beaver Cleavage was mad into his Mam's giant t*ts, which were focused on when the script wasn't calling for puns about genitals.
When these vignettes failed to bring a one dimensional gimmick to life, the company admitted defeat via one of the odder worked shoots of the era. Beaver dropped the gimmick cold in a promo, before returning the following week as normal bloke Chaz alongside girlfriend Mariana no longer cast as his mother. Until he dumped her, and then, according to her accounts, physically abused her.
Light on ideas for the lower card act, the company inexplicably decided to allege violence in the terminated relationship. Mariana sported black eyes and members of the roster and even referees going in hard until a returning Thrasher revealed GTV clips of her applying make-up to set Chaz up for dumping her. Do not revisit 1999 for progressive social commentary or - in this case anyway - half-decent wrestling angles.