The Headbangers To Retire In 2026

The Headbangers will retire from professional wrestling in the summer of 2026.

Mosh and Thrasher have announced they will have their retirement match on July 23, 2026 as part of the ISPW Legends of Wrestling Night at the Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwood, New Jersey. The Headbangers' final opponents have yet to be revealed.

Mosh and Thrasher may not be done forever, however, as they joked in their retirement announcement that they would return if WWE or Japan called them.

Mosh (Charles Warrington) and Thrasher (Glenn Ruth) have teamed together since 1994, initially as The Spiders in NWA territories and the USWA.

They became The Headbangers in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and debuted in WWE in 1996. They had a 28-day reign as WWE Tag Team Champions in 1997 and Mosh had a brief, infamous run as Beaver Cleavage in 1999 while Thrasher was out of action due to injury.

The Headbangers remained a part of WWE until 2000, and they briefly returned to the company for three matches in 2016. Outside of WWE, Mosh and Thrasher have continued to team together on the independent wrestling scene, and they also had a brief run as part of Ring of Honor in 2012.

It emerged in 2023 that Mosh and Thrasher had signed Legends deals with WWE, and they were recently featured on the WWE Vault YouTube channel.