Thrasher

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1990–1996) Ruth grew up in South Jersey.

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.

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.

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. After the Headbangers split for the second time in that July and Warrington went on to team with D'Lo Brown, Ruth continued to wrestle in singles competition mainly on WWF Jakked/Metal before being sent to WWF's Memphis Championship Wrestling developmental territory that summer. He was released from the WWF in December 2000.

Independent circuit (2000–2003) After his release from the WWF, Ruth continued to wrestle until 2003 for Maryland Championship Wrestling and independent promotions before retiring from professional wrestling.

Ring of Honor and return to the independent circuit (2011–present) In 2011, The Headbangers reformed and have been wrestling on the independent circuit once again. In June 2012, Thrasher and Mosh debuted in Ring of Honor as The Guardians of Truth, a masked tag team managed by Truth Martini. As of 2014, Thrasher now wrestles for independent promotion Championship Wrestling Entertainment in Port St. Lucie, FL. On November 14, 2014, Thrasher defeated Chico Adams to become the CWE Heavyweight Champion.

Return to World Wrestling Entertainment (2016) Thrasher and Mosh made an unannounced return to the WWE (formerly WWF) on the 30 August 2016 episode of WWE SmackDown, losing to Heath Slater and Rhyno in the first round of a tournament for the newly-created WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship. They made two further appearances on SmackDown in November 2016.

Personal life Ruth is married with four children. ARW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Blackburn Wrestling Alliance BWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Greg Spitz Championship Wrestling Entertainment CWE Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Coastal Championship Wrestling CCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Figure Wrestling Federation FWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Heroes And Legends Wrestling HLW Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) - with Thrasher Heartland Wrestling Association HWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh HLW Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Mosh Insane Championship Wrestling ICW Streetfight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance IPWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation MEWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Memphis Championship Wrestling MCW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Seven National Wrestling Alliance NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh National Wrestling League NWL Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh New England Wrestling Federation NEWF Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Mosh Noble Champions Group NCG Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) - with Mosh Pro Wrestling Illustrated PWI ranked him # 110 of the Top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1997. Texas Wrestling Alliance TWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh World Wrestling Association (New Jersey) WWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times) WWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Spider #2 WWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh Wrestling For Charity WFC Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mosh