Glenn Ruth

Known for ActingBorn 1969-06-13 (age 56) Camden, New Jersey, USA

is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Thrasher. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation between 1996 and 2000, where he was one half of the tag team The Headbangers with Mosh. Thrasher is a former NWA World Tag Team Champion and WWF World Tag Team Champion. After retiring in 2002, he returned to professional wrestling in 2011, reforming The Headbangers with Mosh and appearing on the independent circuit. Professional wrestling career 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 trained wrestlers such as the Big Show and others at Sharpe's "Monster Factory". Among the wrestlers trained by Sharpe and Ruth was Chaz Warrington, Ruth's future tag team partner. Ruth made a number of appearances for the World Wrestling Federation in the early 90s including a losing effort against Marty Jannetty on the 2nd ever episode of Raw, competing under his given name as an enhancement talent. World Wrestling Federation (1996-2000) Ruth is best known for his appearances with the WWF in the late 90s, where he formed a successful tag team with his old training classmate Chaz Warrington. Warrington and Ruth were best known in the WWF as The Headbangers: Ruth wrestled as Thrasher, while Warrington wrestled as Mosh. Both men debuted in the World Wrestling Federation on the November 24, 1996 episode of Superstars as the Headbangers. The Headbangers were a team that portrayed a pair of punk/metal fans and were known for their outrageous costumes, which usually featured nose rings and kilts. They 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.Read more

Movies & web series

WWE King of the Ring 1997

WWE Ground Zero: In Your House

WWE Survivor Series 1998

WWE SummerSlam 1998

It's Good To Be The King: The Jerry Lawler Story

WWE Judgment Day: In Your House

WWE Survivor Series 1997

WWE Survivor Series 1999

WWE One Night Only

WWE King of the Ring 1998

WWE In Your House 13: Final Four

WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches

WWE SummerSlam 1997

WWE WrestleMania XIV

WWE Badd Blood: In Your House

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

WWE WrestleMania 13

WWE Friday Night SmackDown

WWE Rock Bottom: In Your House

WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House

WWE WrestleMania 2000

Box of Moonlight

Raw

WWF Wrestling Challenge

WWE Royal Rumble 1998

WWE Armageddon 1999

WWE Capital Carnage

WWE Heat

WrestleCon: Mark Hitchcock Memorial Supershow 2026

Atomic Revolutionary Wrestling Presents: Extreme Takeover Thursday

JCW Legends and Icons

WWE Metal

Best Of Raw • Volume Four

SMW Superbowl of Wrestling

ECW/WWA Battle of the Belts