10 Things You Didn’t Know About WWE In 1999

5. The Domestic Violence Angle

Poor Chaz Warrington. The former Mosh of the Headbangers went through the gimmick ringer in 1999. First, he was repackaged as Beaver Cleavage, a parody of Leave it to Beaver with his €œmother,€ Mrs. Cleavage, played by bodybuilder Marianna Koltos. Chaz famously €œbroke character€ on-air to talk about how much the gimmick sucked, and he was repackaged simply as €œChaz,€ and Marianna played his girlfriend. One week in late 1999, Marianna came out with a black eye, and it was implied that she was a domestic violence sufferer, and Chaz was the perpetrator. Chaz would get beaten up by the fellow wrestlers. Mercifully, the awful storyline was put to a halt as Chaz€™s former partner Thrasher would appear and say that Marianna was lying the whole time. She was arrested, and Chaz was free to reform the Headbangers with Thrasher. The WWE likes to look at the Attitude Era with rose colored glasses as if it all was gravy, but some €œedgy€ storylines like this one seriously missed the mark.
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Justin has been writing about professional wrestling for more than 15 years. A lifelong WWE fan, he also is a big fan of Ring of Honor.