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Mosh (wrestler)

American professional wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3298697
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Chaz Warrington (born May 28, 1971) is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation as the wrestler Mosh as one-half of the tag team The Headbangers along with Thrasher.

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1992–1996)

Warrington began training under Larry Sharpe and Glenn Ruth during the early 1990s. In 1993 he would make several appearances in the World Wrestling Federation as an enhancement talent (under the name Chaz Ware). In 1994, he teamed up with his co-trainer Glenn Ruth. He and Ruth, working as the masked team "the Spiders" lost to Axel and Ian Rotten in ECW. Wrestling under a variety of names and gimmicks. Between 1995 and 1996, the Spiders would later change their gimmick and became the Headbangers working for Smoky Mountain Wrestling, independent circuit and United States Wrestling Association. The Spiders would work a few matches for the World Wrestling Federation in December 1995. After Smoky Mountain shut its doors down, the Headbangers would work full time for United States Wrestling Association and won the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation tag titles three times during the summer and fall of 1996.

World Wrestling Federation (1996–2001)

Headbangers (1996–1999)

The duo made appearances as themselves, as the Spiders, and later as The Flying Nuns, with Warrington portraying Mother Smucker and Ruth portraying Sister Angelica; the characters debuted on the premiere episode of Shotgun Saturday Night, alongside Brother Love, in January 1997. Warrington and Ruth were best known as Mosh (Warrington) and Thrasher (Ruth), The Headbangers, a pair of metal fans who dressed in kilts.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1992, 1996, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-03-28. The account is most persuasive where Mosh, wrestler and American can be independently traced.
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