Former WWE Tag Team Champions to have final match in 2026

The Headbangers will have their final match next year.

On Instagram, Mosh & Thrasher announced that the duo will have their final match on July 23, 2026 as part of the ISPW Legends of Wrestling Night card at the Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwood, New Jersey. In the video, they noted that they had been teaming for 33 years, and the two joked that even though this was their final in-ring appearance, things could change if WWE or Japan calls them.

The two are best known for their run in WWE, where they won the vacant WWE Tag Team titles at In Your House: Ground Zero on September 7, 1997. They would lose the titles the following month and would continue to team until 1999, when Thrasher was put out of action with a knee injury. During that year, Mosh wrestled as a singles competitor, first as Beaver Cleavage, then later under his real name Chaz. The two were reunited by the end of that year and teamed up until the following fall, when they were split up and eventually released.

In 2016, they were briefly brought back as part of the SmackDown brand where they competed in a tournament to crown new SmackDown Tag Team Champions, losing to Heath Slater and Rhyno in the first round.

The Headbangers scheduled for SmackDown tag tournament

For the first time since 2000, The Headbangers will be appearing as a team on WWE television.

According to Dave Meltzer, the veteran team is scheduled to compete on next Tuesday’s edition of SmackDown from Dallas, TX as part of the tournament to crown the brand’s first tag team champions of the new era.

The tournament was announced at the beginning of last Tuesday’s SmackDown, with American Alpha, The Usos, The Hype Bros, Breezango, The Ascension, and The Vaudevillains originally completing the field.

But it was expanded when Heath Slater’s free agency storyline was furthered. Slater was given the chance to enter the tournament if he could find a partner. He formed a team with Rhyno, which meant that another team would be included as well. If Slater and Rhyno win the entire tournament, Slater will be added to the SmackDown roster.

The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) briefly held the WWF Tag Team Championship in 1997. The team was disbanded in 2000 after Thrasher was released, and Mosh met the same fate a year later. They reunited as a team on the independent scene in 2011 and have made sporadic indie appearances, along with a few appearances for Ring of Honor, since.

The duo announced on social media yesterday that they were scheduled to compete in the tournament.