Headbanger Mosh Reveals Where He Thinks the Idea for Beaver Cleavage Came From

During a recent interview with Insight With Chris Van Vliet, former WWE Superstar and Tag Team Champion, Headbanger Mosh of The Headbangers, discussed his infamous and short-lived run as Beaver Cleavage, where he thinks the idea came from, and if he thinks it’s the worst gimmick in the history of wrestling. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Mosh on How Many Matches He Had as Beaver Cleavage

“One match. Four vignettes, undefeated.”

On Fans Still Talking About the Character 27 Years Later

“I have one of the worst gimmicks in the history of wrestling.”

if He Thinks It’s One of the Worst Gimmicks Ever

“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 the 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.”

On Where He Thinks the Idea Came From

“I have a general guess. First overseas tour 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 on that trip I was called Beav, and then I found this out the other day. I didn’t know this. Bruce Prichard 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 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.”

The Headbangers reportedly signed a WWE Legends deal back in 2023.