Glenn Ruth (born June 13, 1969) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name, Thrasher.
For much of his career he has teamed with Mosh, most famously as The Headbangers, a pair of metal-heads known for their outrageous costumes such as nose rings and kilts.
1990
Thrasher is best known for his stints in the World Wrestling Federation between 1990 and 2000, where he held the WWF World Tag Team Championship and WWF Hardcore Championship.
Ruth grew up in South Jersey.
He trained as a wrestler under Larry Sharpe and debuted in 1990 as The Spider.
He later became Sharpe's assistant and helped train wrestlers including Big Show and his future tag team partner Mosh at Sharpe's "Monster Factory" professional wrestling school.
Worked in New Jersey, for the National Wrestling Alliance.
Ruth debuted in the World Wrestling Federation in August 1990 under his real name losing to Rick Rude.
He wrestled several matches for the promotion until leaving in November 1990, making several appearances on WWF Superstars and WWF Wrestling Challenge.
1991
In 1991, Ruth wrestled as Frankie Favorite for All Japan Pro Wrestling.
In Japan he would occasionally teamed up with Johnny Favorite.
In 1991 as the Spider, he won the WWA Heavyweight Championship twice in New Jersey from 1991 to 1992 and 1992 to 1993.
Also worked in Maryland.
Ruth made a number of appearances for the World Wrestling Federation from 1991 to 1993.
Losing to the big names; Ric Flair, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart.
1993
On January 23, 1993, the Spider wrestled The Sandman in a Double DQ for Eastern Championship Wrestling.
He appeared on the second ever episode of Raw in 1993 a losing effort against Marty Jannetty, competing under his given name as an enhancement talent.
Sometimes he even made tag teams appearances against The Smoking Gunns and The Steiner Brothers.
1994
In 1994, he started teaming up with Chaz Warrington as the Spiders working in the independent circuit in New Jersey and Texas.
They made a few appearances for Extreme Championship Wrestling in June 1994.
1995
In 1995 they moved down to Tennessee for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW).
It was there that they changed their gimmicks to the Headbangers.
Their slogan was "Real men wear skirts."
Ruth became Thrasher and Warrington became Mosh.
In December 1995 Smokey Mountain folded and they joined the United States Wrestling Association (USWA).
In December 1995, they debuted as jobbers in the WWF as the Spiders, the Royal 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.
1996
Wrestling as "The Spiders", Thrasher and Mosh returned to the WWF on the September 24, 1996, episode of WWF Superstars, losing to The Smoking Gunns.
In November 1996, they resumed wrestling as "The Headbangers".
1997
At the outset of 1997, The Headbangers briefly began wearing nun outfits and wrestling as "The Flying Nuns" and "The Sisters of Love", with Thrasher wrestling as "Sister Angelica" and Mosh as "Mother Smucker".
They were briefly managed by Brother Love.
The Headbangers captured the vacant WWF World Tag Team Championships on September 7, 1997, by defeating three other teams in a four team tag match at Ground Zero.
They lost the titles to The Godwinns on October 5 of that same year.
1999
The Headbangers split in January 1999 when Ruth suffered a knee injury and Warrington began pursuing a singles career, but reformed in late 1999 on the October 10 edition of Sunday Night Heat when Ruth came to Warrington's aid during a domestic violence angle, which saw him vilified by other wrestlers and officials alike for a number of weeks.
Ruth had presented video footage of Warrington's (kayfabe) girlfriend Marianna Komlos putting on makeup to make it seem as if Warrington had been abusing her.
The police officers arresting Warrington then uncuffed him and arrested Komlos for her lies.
Shortly thereafter the two began appearing regularly as a team again, but were now heels and inexplicably came to the ring wearing cone brassieres which they wore while they wrestled.
2000
In 2000, Ruth took part in the match for the Hardcore Championship at WrestleMania 2000.
He held the title for 37 seconds, pinning Joey Abs and then being pinned by Pete Gas.
