Wrestling legend Jim Cornette came up with one of WWE’s biggest most poopular groups, according to one of its stars.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Chaz Warrington, one-half of the iconic group The Headbangers and better known as Mosh, spoke about their history. He then credited Cornette with the move to make him and Glenn Ruther (known as Thrasher) The Headbangers in WWE.
Warrington noted that, when Cornette called the group about being brought into the world of WWF, he didn’t want them to be masked. The duo had been known as many names previously, but Cornette revealed he had a bout of inspiration while attending a Danzig concert, of all places.
Cornette’s crazy Headbangers inspiration
“So when Cornette called us, he goes, ‘Hey, I had this idea. I want to bring you guys in, but I don’t like the masks. I don’t like masked wrestlers.’ Which is funny, because when he brought us in at Ring of Honor, what did he do? He put us under a mask first,” Warrington said. “But yeah, so he told us that, and you’re gonna laugh at this knowing Jim Cornette, he was at a Danzig concert in New York. He goes, ‘It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. These guys had earrings and their noses were pierced, and they had makeup on their face. They’re wearing dresses and they had tattoos.’ He goes, ‘With your guys’ attitude from the northeast, I think you could pull this idea I have off. I don’t really know what the idea is, other than you’d be Headbangers.’
“He goes, ‘You would come out, listen to loud, obnoxious music. I want you to spit on people.’ I mean, the first TV we did, I walked down the ringside and I spit on every single person in the front row, right in their face. He didn’t care. He was like, if you find roadkill on the road, throw it in the back of the car, put it on a leash and drag it to the ring. We didn’t want to go that far. But I knew what he was talking about, the music he was talking about. I knew what he was talking about. I knew I had been to the heavy metal concerts at the bank, and I’ve been to him in the spectrum in Philly with my buddies, so I knew exactly what he was talking about. I’d been in the mosh pits.”
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