Mosh Recalls Headbangers Winning WWE Tag Team Titles In 1997, Holding Them For a Month

The Headbangers had a short run with the WWF Tag Team Championships in 1997, and Mosh recently recalled how the win came about backstage. Mosh and Thrasher won the titles at Ground Zero in September of 1997. The titles were vacant due to Steve Austin’s infamous neck injury facing Owen Hart at SummerSlam that year. The two defeated The Godwins, The Legion of Doom, and Owen Hart and The British Bulldog after Austin came out and Stunned Owen, letting the team get the win.

Mosh looked back at the brief reign on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, recalling how they dyed wedding gowns black for their ring gear and more. You can see the highlights below:

On Winning the Vacant Tag Team Championships:

“Technically yes [they were vacant], because that’s when Dude Love and Stone Cold were tag champs, and Stone Cold had hurt his neck wrestling Owen at SummerSlam, so he couldn’t defend the belts. So we found out four or five days before the pay-per-view that we were going to be slid into that spot, and we’re just ecstatic to be on another pay-per-view. And yeah, so it was LOD, the Godwins, and then Owen and Davey Boy, and The Headbangers were, all of a sudden, just thrown into that mix. And again, we had no idea about anything other than we’re just in another pay-per-view. So every time we were on a pay-per-view, we tried to step up our outfits. So we went to the thrift store, we bought wedding gowns and we dyed them black, specifically because we’re in a title match on a pay-per-view, we need to have something a little bit different.

“To be in there with them, and, I mean, you know, we had worked the Godwins. We had worked Davey and Owen, we worked LOD, so we’ve worked all of them before. We wrestled Davey and Owen a night after WrestleMania 13 for the belt. So that was one thing. You know, we had a title shot, but to be in that environment, on the pay-per-view like that, we were just all jacked up.”

On the Reign Being a Month Long:

“No, it was literally five weeks. Yeah, it was five weeks. So I did the four vignettes. Then I had the one match with Christian, and then I think it was maybe one or two weeks later, they had me walk off the set live. It was in Memphis. It was live on TV.”