Glen Ruth

Glen Ruth
Ring name(s)	Glen Ruth Frankie Favorite Sister Angelica The Spider Thrasher
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight	245 lb (111 kg)
Born	June 13, 1969 (1969-06-13) Camden, New Jersey
Trained by	Larry Sharpe
Debut	1990

Glen Ruth (born June 13, 1969) is a American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Thrasher.

Career

Ruth trained 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.

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 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.

The Headbangers split in 1999 when Ruth suffered a leg 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 45 seconds, pinning Joey Abs and then being pinned by Pete Gas. After the Headbangers split for the second time and Warrington went on to team with D'Lo Brown, Ruth continued to wrestle in singles competition mainly on WWE Jakked and was released from the WWF later that year. After his release from the WWF, Ruth continued to wrestle until 2002 in independent promotions before retiring from professional wrestling.

In 2011, The Headbangers reformed and have been wrestling on the independent circuit once again.

In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • The Stage Dive (Diving somersault leg drop)

• Signature moves
  • Butt bump

Championships and accomplishments

• Blackburn Wrestling Alliance

• BWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Greg Spitz

• Heartland Wrestling Association

• HWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mosh

• Insane Championship Wrestling

• ICW Streetfight Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mosh

• Main Event Championship Wrestling

• MECW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mosh

• Maryland Championship Wrestling

• MCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mosh

• NWA Southwest

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mosh

• New England Wrestling Federation

• NEWF Tag Team Championship (3 time) - 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

• WWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• WWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• World Wrestling Federation

• WWF Hardcore Championship (1 time)
• WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mosh

External links

• The Monster Factory