Austin soon thought the Ringmaster idea was weak and so asked for a change. The WWF gave him a list with names inspired by murderer "The Iceman" Richard Kuklinski, all of which he hated; these included Otto Von Ruthless, Ice Dagger, Fang McFrost, and Chilli McFreeze. Having battled thinning hair for a few years, Austin shaved his head and later elaborated in a May 2017 interview, "After watching the "Pulp Fiction" movie with Bruce Willis, that's the haircut that inspired me. [...] I was travelling on the road to Pittsburgh with Dustin Rhodes and before I went to the show, I said fuck it. I went into the bathroom with a razor blade and shaved all my hair off. [...] Then I grew the goatee and everything came full circle." On March 11, "The Ringmaster" moniker (now merely a prefix to his ring name) would be discarded in favor of his most famous nickname, "Stone Cold". The new name was prompted by his then-wife Jeanie, an English woman who had made a cup of tea for him and told him to drink it before it became "stone cold". His new persona was inspired by Kuklinski.