The wrestler born Chaz Warrington has been known by many personas over the course of his pro wrestling career, but fans will know him best as Mosh of The Headbangers.
A former WWE star and Tag Team Champion, Warrington recently released his memoir Beneath The Skirt, which takes readers on a journey from his beginnings in the wrestling world, how he formed a lifelong friendship with Glenn Ruth [Thrasher], Jim Cornette and D’Lo Brown being pivotal in their careers, and their surprise return more than a decade on from departing the company.
From spiders to Headbangers to Beaver Cleavage and simply Chaz, the former Tag Team Champion has triumphed at WrestleMania, accidentally got on the wrong side of one of the biggest action movie stars of the 90s, and chased a champion around a kids’ play area. In 2016, Warrington was able to have his ultimate dream come true as the Headbangers returned to SmackDown, meaning that his son could watch him perform on TV for the first time ever.
Set to retire in 2026, Mosh also guest coaches at the WWE Performance Center and hosts a podcast with Glenn. In a recent interview with Features of Wrestling over video in February 2026, Mosh spoke about the highs, lows, and everything in between on his life as a pro wrestler in the biggest company in the world.
Only The Headbanger Way: Mosh Looks Back On His Pro Wrestling Career
The foreword of the book is written by Matt Cardona, who recently made his return to WWE following a lengthy spell on the independents. In the foreword, Cardona notes that he would love the opportunity to lock up with Mosh one final time before the Headbanger hangs up the skirt. While Mosh does now feel that this match is unlikely given that Cardona has returned to WWE, there was a plan to have the Major Brothers reunite as part of the Headbangers final match:
“So Glenn and I are as a team retiring from in-ring action July 23 of 2026 and we’re actually trying to do it in June, and we actually had it lined up to be against Matt Cardona and Brian Myers, they were going to be our last ones. We were going to do it at first with The Monster Factory, because that’s a school we went to. But out of nowhere, The Monster Factory has shut down, and so we weren’t able to do it with them. So we’re still doing it in New Jersey, and we’re doing it with another really good friend of ours, Tommy Fierro, who runs ISPW, and the date that we were going to do it, Matt and Brian were not available, so we had to kind of switch gears, and we’re still trying to figure that out. But even if they were still available today, you know, Matt wouldn’t have been able to do it, because he had to cancel all of his other Indies and stuff like that. So who knows what happens down the road, but as of now, it won’t be Matt. But Matt’s amazing. We’ve become friends over the years, and I actually just saw him last Friday night because I was down at SmackDown when they were down in Fort Lauderdale. So he’s great, and I appreciate him for doing what he did.”
Two names that were integral in The Headbangers becoming a success in the pro wrestling world were Jim Cornette and D’Lo Brown. Cornette was the one who created the iconic look and persona, while D’Lo was the one who helped the tag team perfect their signature move, The Stage Dive:
“I don’t know where our career would have went, or where it would have ended up without Cornette. I mean, Cornette gave us the opportunity in Smoky Mountain. He gave us the idea of the Headbangers, and then we kind of evolved it into what it would have became. He’s the one who mentioned to Vince about bringing us in to take a look at us, and that led to us getting signed on the part-time contract they were doing then. Then when we won the tag titles, it wasn’t solely Cornette’s decision, but he’s the one who told us about it. I think it was 2011 we did that short run in Ring of Honor, it was Cornette who brought us in. So Cornette is a huge part, I love the man to death. And, yeah, if it wasn’t for him, I don’t know where we would have ended up, because we probably would have kept trying to do the spider thing and not sure that would have went anywhere. Then D’Lo was huge, because D’Lo was down at the school when I first started. Well, he actually came a couple of months after me. But he was instrumental, because he helped us perfect the stage dive, and just all through my career, we got into WWF right around the same time as well. Yeah, he was another big, big part of it.”
Along with being The Headbangers, Mosh and Thrasher had a very brief stint as wrestling nuns, known collectively as Sisters of Love. Looking back on their brief run as wrestling nuns, Mosh noted that it wasn’t pitched to them, and that Vince was a fan of their unique on-location appearance:
“Well, it was there really wasn’t pitched to us. We were kind of told it. We were still part-time. We were still new. We signed our part-time contract in November of 96 so this was December of 96. The end of December, we got a thing in our booking packet that we had to go to New York to get new outfits. And we’re like, new outfits? We buy our clothes at the thrift store. What do you mean new outfits? We were confused at first, going, what are they trying to do here? So we showed up at this costume place, or seamstress, whatever it was, and Bruce Prichard was there, and we asked him, we’re like, ‘Bruce, what’s with new outfits?’ He goes, ‘Don’t worry about it. You’ll see.’ So they’re measuring everything. They’re measuring our bodies, our heads. And then they came out with these things to put on. And we were like, What the hell is going on? And Bruce goes, ‘Oh yeah, you’re going to be the Sisters of Love, and Brother Love’s going to be your manager.’ We were like, Huh? He was like, Yeah, ‘Vince has this idea.’ And then that’s when he told us about the idea with it, and then how they were starting to do Shotgun Saturday Night Live in different New York City nightclubs and different hot spot places. He goes, and this is what he wants you to do. We went, Okay, we’re part-time. We’ve only been here three months, and Vince wants to give us an idea, we’re like, alright, run with it and see where it goes. Vince’s idea, and you know it’s going to get used. Then the next week it was at The Mirage, the very first Shotgun Saturday Night. Then the next week we were The Headbangers. And then the next week they were going to Texas, and we were supposed to go there as to fly nuns, but the religious groups in Texas would not let us work. So we just sat there and hung out in the back and watched. Then obviously, it got killed off. But at that point, we didn’t really care either way, because it was like we were getting paid, we were getting used. I think the other thing is everything’s a test, you know, we were new, how would we react? What would we do? I think it was a test at the same time. But, you know, we were getting used. And those Shotgun Saturday Nights, I think, is one of the things that really helped us get over, not just with the crowd, but with the office and with the boys in locker room as well.
St Patrick’s Cathedral, which is a huge, huge Church in New York City. They took us there in a limo, and they had us walk up, and we had our hands down as we were praying. I was an altar boy growing up, so I was like, this is just weird. We’re standing outside of a church, and the limo dropped us off, and the limo took off. And I was like, Oh crap, how long are we going to be here? This is crazy. We got our heads down. The camera crew is at the bottom of the steps, and all of a sudden, the timing, how they figured out the timing I don’t know, but the door was open, and people started flooding out of the church, and these ladies saw us. Here’s two guys. I’m six two, Glenn is six, four. Facial hair. Glenn had his nose chain going from his nose to his ear. People were dropping to their knees and praying at us, and then they would look up and see our face and go, ‘Oh, is this a joke? You’re gonna burn in hell!’ They were yelling at us now, and I’m like, oh sh*t. The producer doing the TV for us, they were like, ‘Walk.’ So we start down the steps, and as we get down there, another limo pulls up. We jump in the backseat, and I was like, holy sh*t. What the f was that? I’m like, this is terrible. That lady was right. We are going to burn in hell. And then the privacy window came down from the front and Vince was up there. Now Vince wasn’t in the first limo when we got dropped off, all of a sudden, another limo pulls up with Vince, and he turns around. He goes, ‘That was money, great job!’ Then the privacy window went back up, and I went, Oh, okay. So that was it, and it was all Vince’s idea. And yeah, so it gives me two gimmicks where I’m undefeated, so it’s fun.”
An underrated finisher in tag team wrestling, the Stage Dive requires perfect timing from all parties to execute the leg drop and powerbomb combination. However, while The Usos have added the 3D to their repertoire [calling it the 1D], and teams will occasionally bust out the Hart Attack or The Doomsday Device, it’s still rare that the Stage Dive will be seen on TV. However, during his coaching sessions at the WWE Performance Center, Headbanger Mosh noted that he wants to see former NXT Tag Team Champions adopt the move:
“It’s funny you say that, because I go up to the PC in Orlando with WWE, and I do guest coaching. When I’m there, I work with the tag teams a lot of the time. I’ve thrown a couple of things out to some of the teams, and I’ve said to them, Listen, what’s old is new, so it hasn’t been done. And OTM, they’ve actually kind of adopted our double Flapjack, so they’re one of the guys that did it. I’ve been trying to get Hank and Tank to do the Power Bomb Leg Drop. But the Power Bomb up there with NXT was banned for a little while only because of Oba Femi. Oba was doing a Power Bomb. So they didn’t want anyone else doing it. Some people have tried little modified ones. But for some reason, I keep throwing it out there, I’m just waiting for someone to do it. And when OTM did the double Flapjack, I was home, it was live on NXT, and I popped! I jumped up. I was like, Yes, finally! They nailed it, it was amazing, and it was great.”
Beaver Cleavage:
As has been the case over the course of history, repackaging a wrestler can either be the turning point or the beginning of the end of their career. While the likes of Kane and Steve Austin achieved superstardom from being given a new persona, anyone who was in the RETRIBUTION faction did not have the same luck. In 1999, Mosh was left on his own after his tag partner, Thrasher, went down with a knee injury. What followed was a series of vignettes to introduce one of the most infamous personas in WWE history: Beaver Cleavage. A reference to the TV series Leave it to Beaver, Mosh and his kayfabe mother exchanged sexual innuendos in the lead-up to his in-ring debut. Even though the Beaver Cleavage character only lasted 6 weeks, it is still mocked almost 30 years later. However, when asked about the legacy it left, Mosh admitted he does not have disdain for the character:
“It doesn’t bother me. I joke around now and I’m like, how bad was it? My head was buried in boobs every night. The gimmick was they were insinuating I was having sexual relations with my mother. So how bad is that? And those vignettes, as bad as the gimmick was, I’m sorry, those vignettes are the greatest vignettes ever done. I mean, you’re never going to beat those vignettes, especially nowadays the way things are. You could never pull that stuff off. I never looked at wrestling as a business. If I would have looked at it as a business, I would have pulled Marianna in and just ran with her as a singles wrestler when it ended. But it was a character. It was easy to do. It wasn’t that bad. It was silly. I think if it would have ran longer, it could have gotten over a little bit more, and at least allowed me maybe to evolve into something else. But yeah, looking back on it now, I just wish the business side of me would have realized what was happening. Because back then, anyone who had a female, had a diva with them, they were getting a push and they were getting used and her and I personality wise, we conflicted. So when I was doing the whole singles thing with her as my girlfriend, I didn’t want her around me, because, again, personality-wise, I didn’t like her. But business-wise, I should have put my arm around her and pulled her in and ran with it and tried to help her and teach her more, but I was more just arm’s length, not wanting anything to do with her.”
Mosh also recounted one company that asked him to take part in a signing as Beaver Cleavage, and he was paid very handsomely to be the infamous character one more time:
“There’s a company over here who does signings, K and S WrestleFest, and they actually called me up one time. I’ve done lots of stuff with them as the Headbangers. They’re like, hey, we want to do a Beaver Cleavage signing. I was like, I don’t know about that. I got to shave my goatee, my head’s bald. They’re like, It’ll be fun. We’re gonna get the little hats with the propellers. We’re gonna sell them, you can sign them. So I charged them triple what I normally would charge for an appearance, and they agreed to it. So I went and I did it, and that was kind of when I just went I don’t know if I want to do a Beaver Cleavage appearance again, but who cares? It was a fun gimmick. I think part of not wanting to sign pictures and stuff like that was, I signed everything, I just acted disgruntled about it. It was stupid, it was this, it was that, but it was actually great.”
With Headbanger Mosh being a part of one of the hottest periods in pro wrestling, The Attitude Era, there were times when top stars would also be at the arenas either as a fan or be part of the show. Recounting a hilarious case of mistaken identity, the former Tag Team Champion looked back on one time where he didn’t realise that he barged past Arnold Schwarzenegger:
“We were in Baltimore, and he was promoting one of his movies. But I was late getting up to Gorilla, getting ready to go to the ring. I got up there, and I forgot something, my necklace, my chain, or whatever. So I ran back down, and some guy was standing there and I kind of push him out of the way. I’m like, Excuse me, push him out of the way, get what I need in my bag. I turn and bam, not this guy again. I’m like, f*ck, move! I push him out of the way. I sprint all the way up, go up to gorilla, do our thing, come back, shower. We’re hanging out in the back. And I was like, ‘Where’s Schwarzenegger? I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to be here.’ Phineas [Godwin aka Mideon] looks at me, and he goes, ‘Are you kidding me?’ And I’m like, ‘No, I didn’t see him all night.’ He goes, ‘Remember when you came back and that guy was in your way? You pushed him twice. You told him get the f*ck out of the way?’ I’m like, Yeah? He goes, that was Arnold Schwarzenegger. I was like, what?! There’s no way that was him. You see Arnold Schwarzenegger in movies, Predator, Terminator, and he looks ginormous. He was a lot shorter than I thought he was. Literally had no idea that was him who I pushed out of the way twice.”
WrestleMania 2000 – Headbanger Thrasher Wins A Championship, Mosh Doesn’t
Two years on from The Headbangers winning in the opening match of WrestleMania 13, Mosh and Thrasher were opponents as part of a scramble for the Hardcore Championship. Throughout the chaos, Thrasher was able to capture the title, albeit for 37 seconds. However, Mosh was not given the opportunity. Along with not having fond memories of the match in general, Mosh recalled being at first told he would have a short title reign at WrestleMania, but plans changed:
“When we walked through everything at first, I was told that, hey, at some point you’re gonna win. I think there were two different times during that I was supposed to be Hardcore Champ. Then when we did the walkthrough of everything, where we’re going to go and what we could use, and stuff like that, Glenn had that 37 seconds that he won the hardcore title. I know sounds kind of stupid, and I knew I wasn’t going to have the Hardcore Title at the end, but to win a title at WrestleMania, I don’t care if it’s for 37 seconds or like Matt Cardona had his one day as Intercontinental Champion, you still won a title at WrestleMania. So even if it was the 37 seconds, it’s something you can say, an accolade you have. So when we got done doing a walkthrough, I went up to the producers. I was like, ‘I thought I was [winning]?’ They were like, ‘Oh yeah. That changed, because they have other plans they want to do with you.’ I was like, Okay. Then I don’t know what those plans were, because nothing ever came of it. Nothing ever happened. I was happy to be in WrestleMania. Don’t get me wrong. Was not happy to be in the Hardcore Title match. I’m not a fan of me being in hardcore matches. Glenn loves hardcore matches. I don’t like it. So I wasn’t thrilled for that reason. I mean, Bradshaw was stiff enough, you don’t need to get hit by a kendo stick from Bradshaw. Then the other side of it was at that point, that’s when Glenn had come back from his knee injury, and just wasn’t in the best shape. So instead of being the top team we got squashed right to the bottom. We were the most tenured tag team at that point, and to not be involved in that TLC match, where I thought we should have been somewhere in that mix with the Hardys and the Dudleys and Edge and Christian, that bothered me. I wanted to contribute. At that point, it was like, Yeah, I’m happy to be here. I’m excited that I have my job, but I want to contribute. I want to do more. We just didn’t get the opportunities to do any of that.”
Although his time in the Hardcore Championship division was not looked back upon as fondly as his tag team success, it did produce one of the most hilarious moments in The Attitude Era. One of the many on-location skits at the time saw Headbanger Mosh and Thrasher chase Crash Holly around a children’s play area in hopes of winning the gold. Looking back on that day, Mosh admitted that they only really had one take to get it right, and with just one cameraman, they had to get more creative with how it was shot:
“Yeah, we were just told, hey, you guys are going to do a thing with Crash, and you’re going to this FunTime USA place. We were like, Okay. Then when we got there, we were like this is awesome. The ideas started flowing and pulling out. One of the really cool things was we were going to start on the second floor, but we had to get Crash down at the bottom. But we only had one camera guy. So we convinced the camera guy, can you go down the slide with the camera? Because we were trying to do it all in one take, because there were too many things to try and do it two or three times, and we pulled it off on one take. But yeah, that was a hardcore thing, but there was really nothing hardcore about it. Using the mallet on the thing, he didn’t get hit with it. We used the trash can, but it was a rubber trash can full of trash. It was more just the using what was there. At the end in the ball pit, the funnest part for us was we just wanted to see how many times we could say, ‘Get him in the balls!’ Crash was great with his character and the gimmick with how he did it, so it’s funny how that one is one of the best, and it’s still remembered to this day. But it was a lot of fun doing it and getting creative with, okay, how do we get the camera guy downstairs? We’re going to start upstairs and to figure all that stuff out. That’s the part of the business now that I’ve fallen more in love with than actually being in the ring. I love the producing side and coming up with the storylines and the angles and then watching it all unfold.”
When a tag team is formed in pro wrestling, it is almost inevitable that a break-up will take place so that the members can break out on their own solo careers. However, throughout their WWF tenure, The Headbangers never had that breakout feud. That being said, there was one show where Glenn and Chaz had a singles match, which Chaz emerged as the victor:
“No, never, never, ever. Actually, the only time we’ve ever worked one another, besides training down at The Monster Factory, was in Arkansas, when we had left USWA Memphis, back in the day, we had come up with this lifeguard idea, because, again, Jerry Lawler didn’t like the masks, even though he brought us in with masks, and then, because of the mask, is how we left USWA. But we came up with this lifeguard gimmick, this lifeguard idea. And then when we were wrestling for Burt Prentice and Ozark Mountain, we were doing, different matches. There wasn’t a lot of wrestlers. So we literally one time it was me, Spider 2, versus Glenn the lifeguard. So that’s the only time we ever worked one another. I beat him there, too.”
The Headbangers’ 2016 Return
Mosh’s memoir Beneath The Skirt is full of fun stories from his early days as a wrestler right up to his return in 2016, which the former WWE star has since noted that the reason for this was so his son could see him wrestle live on TV. However, this was not the last time the WWF tag team would be a part of the modern era, as they faced The Usos in a follow-up episode of SmackDown and the landmark 900th episode. Speaking about the match with The Usos, Headbanger Mosh admitted that there was a possibility that the match could have been cut altogether:
“The great part about the Usos was everything was running late. All the segments were running over, we were up in Gorilla, and I’ll never forget it. Vince looked at us, and he goes, ‘You guys have two minutes, or we can just cut it all together.’ I was like, ‘No, we’ll take the two minutes.’ He goes, ‘You’re not gonna have a ring entrance. We have to do your ring entrance during commercial, and then Usos will come down. Hurry up and figure it out.’ And we were like, Okay. And we looked at Jimmy and Jey, and we’re like, what do you want to do? And they were like, just beat us up. And then we’ll slip over. We’ll cheat to slip over on you guys. And we’re like, okay. And Vince was like, you sure you wanna go out there? Yes, two minutes is more than what we had. So yes, we’ll take the two minutes. Because once you show up on WWE TV, then all of a sudden, the Indies pick up, and then we can raise a little bit more up our charge for the Indies, because we just fresh off the TV, even if it was for two minutes. So, yeah, that’s what we did. We had our entrance during the during a commercial break, which was awesome, because we got a long entrance. We got a great reaction from the crowd. I think that was in Jersey. We got to mess around with the crowd a little bit and have fun, then Jimmy and Jey came out. We got that little bit of heat and then the screw finish, 1, 2, 3, and, yeah, it was perfect.”
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