The Headbangers Returning To WWE SmackDown This Week?
Former Tag Team Champions to make their first WWE appearance in years.
In news that was first announced by the pair on social media and then confirmed by The Wrestling Observer, former WWE World Tag Team Champions The Headbangers will be returning to Smackdown this week to take part in the brand's Tag Team Championship tournament.
Chaz Warrington, who competed as Headbanger Mosh (then later had tenures as Beaver Cleavage and Chaz), published a Facebook post about how his son would finally get to see him wrestle live on TV on Smackdown Live's Dallas, TX show. Glen Ruth, who competed as Headbanger Thrasher, then posted a confirmation of the team's appearance this coming week on his Facebook page.
Last week, Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan announced the creation of the Smackdown Tag Team Titles, and a tournament to crown the inaugural champions. Though there were only six teams present at the announcement - American Alpha, The Usos, The Vaudevillains, The Hype Bros, Breezango, and The Ascension - Heath Slater and Rhyno later joined forces to form a makeshift tandem. WWE.com later confirmed that Slater and Rhyno would face a mystery team next week.
The Headbangers were a popular team during the Attitude Era, despite achieving little lasting success. The skirt-wearing rockers captured the WWE World Tag Team Titles in 1997, but their reign would be short-lived. They split up in 1999 when Thrasher suffered a knee injury, but they reunited later in the year.
Thrasher was released in 2000, while Mosh was released in 2001.