The Headbangers
| The Headbangers | |
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| Tag team | |
| Members |
Mosh Thrasher |
| Name(s) | The Spiders The Headbangers The Flying Nuns The Guardians of Truth The Sisters of Love |
| Combined weight |
492 lb (223 kg) |
| Debut | 1994 |
| Years active | 1994–2000 2011–present |
| Promotions | CCW CTW CWE FEW FOW HLW HWA ICW IPWA IWA MS IWA Puerto Rico JCW Lutte Familiale MCW MECW MEWF MFPW NEWF NWL NWA PWE PWS PWX USWA ROH SMW TWA Vintage WrestleCade World Wrestling Alliance World Wrestling Association WWF/E WXW |
The Headbangers are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Mosh (Charles Warrington) and Thrasher (Glenn Ruth). As the name of the team implied, their gimmick was that they were a pair of metalheads, complete with heavy metal related T-shirts, kilts, piercings, goatees, shaved heads, and black face paint.
They were both trained by Larry Sharpe in New Jersey in the early 1990s. Warrington and Ruth teamed up in 1994 as the Spiders in their home state, New Jersey, for the National Wrestling Alliance. They made an Eastern Championship Wrestling appearance in June 1994, losing to The Bad Breed (Axl and Ian Rotten). The Spiders had a brief stint in Dallas for the NWA in 1995. Later that year they moved down to Tennessee in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). It was there that they changed their gimmicks to the Headbangers. Their slogan was "Real men wear skirts." During their time in SMW, they feuded with The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) and The Thugs (Tracy Smothers and Tony Anthony), and later sided with Jim Cornette and Terry Gordy in their feud with Brad Armstrong over the SMW Heavyweight Championship. By the end of the year, SMW folded and they joined the United States Wrestling Association (USWA). In December 1995, they debuted as jobbers in the WWF as the Spiders, the Arachnoids, and even used their real names. On an episode of Monday Night Raw they got a World Tag Team Title shot against the Smoking Gunns. They returned to the USWA.
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