Line #7 Wrestling/TheHeadbangers


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:L-R: Mosh, Thrasher]]
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4	Mosh (Chaz Warrington) and Thrasher (Glenn Ruth) were an American ProfessionalWrestling TagTeam from UsefulNotes/NewJersey as The Headbangers. They trained together under [[Wrestling/LarrySharpe "Pretty Boy" Larry Sharpe]] and started together as The Spiders. While working for Wrestling/{{SMW}}, promoter Wrestling/JimCornette gave them the Headbangers gimmick, inspired by having seen Music/MarilynManson. They wrestled for years in the independents before arriving in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in late 1996. They would have a brief run with the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Titles]] in 1997 before being DemotedToExtra.
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6	Along with their WWE Tag Title run, they were also the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/oh/hwa/hwa-t.html HWA (Heartland Wrestling Association in Ohio) Tag Team Champions]], the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/md/mcw/mcw-t.html MCW (Maryland) Tag Team Champions]], 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/nj/wwa/nj-wwa-t.html WWA (New Jersey) Tag Team Champions]] (as The Spiders), 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/md/mewf/mewf-t.html MEWF Tag Team Champions]], 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champions]] and Thrasher won and lost the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]] during the Hardcore Battle Royal at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XVI''.
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8	!!"REAL MEN WEAR TROPES!":
9	* AbortedArc: After The Flying Nuns beat The Godwinns with Brother Love's help, he announced in a post match promo that from then on they would be known as the Sisters of Love. It was never mentioned again.
10	* ArchEnemy: (in SMW): Wrestling/TheRockNRollExpress; (in WWE): The Godwinns, Wrestling/TheOddities
11	* {{Ascended Extra}}s: They were both WWE TV jobbers under their own names.
12	* BaldOfEvil: When they were working heel.
13	* DemotedToExtra: After the Headbangers reunited following the Chaz Warrington woman-beater angle, the Headbangers never got an angle and were used as jobbers-to-the-stars until Thrasher got injured again.
14	* EarlyBirdCameo: They appeared on Raw in 1995 under their The Spiders gimmick to get squashed by the Smoking Gunns.
15	* FacialMarkings: They painted beneath their eyes with the black paint that pro athletes use to help keep the sun out of their eyes. Then they started adding trails and patterns to the paint. It can be seen in the page image.
16	* FinishingMove: The Stage Dive (combination powerbomb from Mosh and a top rope legdrop from Thrasher)
17	* FreakyIsCool: Pretty much underdogs during their WWE run, and they made no apologies for being different from everybody else.
18	* HeelFaceTurn: The Headbangers were booked against The Oddities, with both teams being Face at the time. Instead of fighting, the teams just hung out in the ring rocking out to the Oddities' theme song. The Headbangers were shooting silly string around. Then they suddenly switched the silly string cans for mace cans, shot the Oddities in the faces with it, and beat the hell out of them.
19	* {{Metalhead}}s: It's right there in their name.
20	* NunTooHoly: For one match, Mosh and Thrasher were The Flying Nuns, Mother Smucker and Sister Angelica. They worked as heels and beat The Godwinns on Saturday Night Shotgun, then the gimmick was abruptly dropped.
21	* PowerStable:
22	** (in MCW): The Family of Freaks
23	** (in Wrestling/RingOfHonor): [[Wrestling/TruthMartini The House of Truth]]

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