Simon Grimm Explains Why He Got Rid of His Vaudevillain Look

– Simon Grimm, the former Simon Gotch, discussed the shedding of his look in a new interview with AMBY’s Alicia Atout. The WWE alum explained that the change was due to fans assuming he was still doing the vaudeville gimmick in the indies. Highlights are below, per Wrestling Inc:

On where he lost his mustache: “I think Rhode Island or maybe Massachusetts. We were in Worcester, Massachusetts, that’s where it was.”

On losing the look: “I hadn’t done the vaudeville and old-timey strongman things since I left WWE, but there were people that believed that I still did that. To the point where on social media, there were people who would still make fun or have commented about what I was doing and the gimmick I was doing. Apparently, they never saw me wrestle at least in the last two years. At a certain point, I realized no matter what or how much I changed my look, as long as I got the mustache, people are going to assume I was doing that. I was wrestling Tim Thatcher (which I knew him for years, first time wrestling in California) and we’re calling the match about five minutes we got through talking, he’s calling the match back to me and I’m standing over a trashcan shaving my mustache off. I had it since 2010.”