Austin asks Beefcake about the classic match between Roddy Piper and Adrian Adonis at WrestleMania 3. Beefcake says the crowd were absolutely on fire that night, and it was a last minute decision for him to shave Adonis’ hair after the match ended. This ultimately led to him developing the ‘Barber’ gimmick.
Initially Piper was supposed to shave Adnois’ head but Piper urged Beefcake to do the honours when he got to the ring. He says that the clippers were terrible and he started to panic, but finally he got them to work and when he started to throw Adonis’ hair into the air the fans went crazy.
After seeing this, McMahon and WWE officials decided to give Beefcake the ‘Barber’ gimmick and he admits that he wasn’t happy about that at the time. He was having success as ‘Brutus Beefcake’, and he didn’t want to start a new gimmick, especially as a barber. He admits to feeling lost for a while after starting that gimmick but eventually things started to come around.
Beefcake informs that he started making his entrance to the ring with a small pair of scissors but that wasn’t giving him the visual that he wanted. He also thought that with 100,000 people in a stadium, a lot of people in the cheap seats wouldn’t even be able to see the scissors. He switched to the large garden shears and that was exactly the stunning visual he was looking for.
