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Animal and HawkMembers(valet)Name(s)The Road WarriorsLegion of DoomThe Hell RaisersLOD 2000LOD 2005The Hell WarriorsOriginalsCombinedbilled weight575 lb (261 kg; 41.1 st)Billed from,Debut1983Disbanded2014Years active1983–2014The Road Warriors, also known as the Legion of Doom, were a composed of (Michael Hegstrand) and (Joseph Laurinaitis) They performed under the name 'The Road Warriors' in the (AWA), the (NWA), and (WCW), and the name 'Legion of Doom' (LOD) in the (WWF). Under either name, their was the same – two imposing wrestlers in. For brief periods, other wrestlers were added as stand-in partners for both men. In Japan in the 1990s, often teamed with Hawk and Animal, separately and together.Hawk and Animal were known for their impressive physiques, as their physical size was larger than most wrestlers of the era. Their face paint and spiked armor were inspired by the film; they were the first wrestlers to bring a theme from a movie into the wrestling world. They also introduced a known as the.
Both men used the move as a team throughout their careers, even when teaming with other partners.The Road Warriors are regarded by many as the greatest tag team in professional wrestling history. Contents.History Georgia Championship Wrestling (1983–1984) Animal had briefly competed as the Road Warrior before paired him up with to form the Road Warriors in 1983. They were initially brought into 's stable as a replacement for his team of and, after Borne was fired from the company. After a few months of rapid success, the Road Warriors dumped Ellering as manager, claiming they needed no manager. This was short-lived, as in early 1984, along with 'Precious' Paul Ellering formed a called 'The Legion of Doom' in the (NWA)'s (GCW) territory. The group consisted of the Road Warriors, &. The stable was short lived and the name 'Legion of Doom' soon referred only to the Road Warriors and Ellering with either name used interchangeably throughout their career.
Animal reveals in the Road Warriors: The Life and Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History DVD set that the name 'Legion of Doom' was taken from the cartoon.The Road Warriors’ high impact power style and unique attire quickly got them noticed by fans and dreaded by opponents, so much so that some wrestlers would grab their bag and leave the arena when they saw they were scheduled to face the Road Warriors. In, the team quickly rose to the top despite being very young and without the traditional “paying dues” period just because they were so believable in their role as power monsters. They gained a reputation for being very stiff and not selling simply because they could and as a result most of their matches ended quickly. They won the upon their debut, a title they would win three more times while in Georgia. American Wrestling Association (1984–1986) In 1984, the Road Warriors moved on to 's (AWA) along with their manager Paul Ellering.
On August 25, 1984, they defeated and for the. The Road Warriors were brought in by Gagne to work as heels, but their soon won over fans.
They became the AWA's top draw throughout 1984 and 1985, feuding primarily with and later. The Warriors then began splitting their time between the AWA and (JCP) where they started feuding with, all while still holding the AWA belts, The AWA & various NWA members, in an effort to compete with the. Hawk and Animal eventually lost the AWA title to and 'Mr.
Electricity' Steve Regal on September 29, 1985, due to the interference of the Freebirds. The Road Warriors' last appearance in the AWA was on April 20, 1986 at where they defeated the team of Garvin and in a steel cage match.During their AWA stint the team became well known for using the song ' as their.Japan (1985–1990) In March 1985, the Road Warriors began touring, mainly with (AJPW) where they made an immediate impact squashing the monster team of and in under 4 minutes. This and subsequent dominant victories garnered the Road Warriors a lot of Japanese wrestling media headlines and front-page stories. Their tours with AJPW in 1985 and 1986 made the Road Warriors such legends in Japan that they toured the country whenever they were “between contracts” of the big three.The Road Warriors won the on March 12, 1987 from and and would hold them for 15 months before losing them to PWF World Tag Team champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu to unify the titles as the AJPW World Tag Team titles, making the Road Warriors the last defending champions of the NWA International Tag Team titles.
Their last match in Japan during this period was on July 22, 1990, for (NJPW), losing to and by disqualification.Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (1986–1990) On April 19, 1986, The Road Warriors won the inaugural by beating and in the finals. Building upon their rapid push, Hawk and Animal were featured attractions of tour where they were matched against and as well as. At, the Road Warriors were featured in a, defeating the Midnight Express.The Warriors joined forces with and Nikita Koloff in a bloody feud with. During the 1987 Great American Bash, the rival sides faced off in the first ever. The Road Warriors were on the winning side of War Games both matches that summer taking their feud with the Horsemen to Starrcade '87, where they lost by disqualification to. The Road Warriors also picked up the twice alongside Dusty Rhodes. The Warriors engaged in a violent feud with ( and ) where the Road Warriors finally met their equal physically, but the angle ended when the Powers of Pain left JCP after finding out they were booked against the Road Warriors in a series of Scaffold Matches that they were supposed to lose.In 1988, Hawk and Animal quietly turned heel and finally won the on October 29, 1988 in at a house show against the Midnight Express, In November of that year the Road Warriors played a role in ending Dusty Rhodes' tenure as head for the promotion.
During the November 26 episode of, which was under strict instructions from executives prohibiting, the Road Warriors attacked Rhodes, removed a spike from their shoulder pads, and attempted to gouge his eye out. Rhodes was fired for that episode shortly after. Before Rhodes was fired, Animal beat him at the Clash of the Champions, so the Road Warriors were allowed to pick a new partner to hold the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team titles; they picked AJPW superstar but the titles were quickly abandoned.The Road Warriors quickly turned face yet again due to overwhelming fan support no matter how brutal or violent they were. Their World Tag Team title reign came to an end when they faced ( and ) on April 2, 1989. The title change was a controversial one as referee performed an excessively fast count. Long would be fired from his job due to the count but the titles were not returned to the Road Warriors.
Hawk and Animal would spend the rest of their tenure in (WCW) (as JCP became to be known after being purchased by in 1988) feuding with teams like. Their last big wins in WCW came when they defeated three other teams (including the red hot ) to win the Ironman Tag Team Tournament at (The Steiners actually defeated the Warriors by pinfall in their match, but the Warriors won the round robin style tournament on a point system basis.) and over in a Chicago Street Fight at.The Road Warriors made their last WCW appearance on May 19, 1990 at where they teamed with against, and in a match that was cut from the commercial tape of the event.
They left WCW in June 1990 due to with then-WCW head according to Animal on their WWE produced DVD.World Wrestling Federation (1990–1992) When Hawk and Animal signed with the (WWF) in June 1990, retired the Road Warriors moniker, since at the time there was other wrestlers with 'warrior' in their names, such as and 'The Modern Day Warrior'. They both made their TV debuts on the July 15, 1990 episode of. In the WWF the team would be known only as the 'Legion of Doom'. Despite the altered team name, they were still individually introduced as 'Road Warrior' Hawk and 'Road Warrior' Animal.Hawk and Animal immediately entered into a feud with, the team McMahon had supposedly created in their likeness three years earlier, which led into a televised six-man tag-team match where Hawk and Animal teamed up with Ultimate Warrior against all three members of Demolition.
(Ax) was having health issues and an agreement was made to phase him out and eventually replace him with (Brian Adams), while continued in his role of Smash. Ax was moved into a role as manager for the team with the hope of taking a front office position, which eventually fell through. The Legion of Doom / Demolition feud did not have the expected intensity because of the change and LOD soon set their sights on the tag team titles. At in, the Legion of Doom defeated in a no DQ street fight to win the, becoming the only team to win world tag titles in all three of the top promotions of the 1980s. Hawk and Animal would eventually lose the titles to (IRS (Mike Rotunda) and ) on February 7, 1992 after which they briefly left the promotion.LOD would return a short time later with their original manager at.
The team later incorporated a dummy called 'Rocco' (Originally introduced as 'Freckles' in front of a live crowd at a WWF TV Taping, the segment bombed so badly that it never aired) which served as their “inspiration”, but this gimmick was short-lived. Hegstrand left the company in disgust with the Rocco gimmick immediately after at the where LOD rode to the ring on motorbikes in front of over 80,000 fans. He then went AWOL in after the event with (The Berzerker) and missed the flight back to the, while Laurinaitis stuck around and finished the team's contractual obligations with former Demolition member Crush (now repackaged from his Demolition character to being a face, becoming a tanned muscle guy from the beaches of his native ) replacing Hawk on in in mid September 1992, after Hawk left the WWF.
Crush and Animal teamed to defeat five times and and once. Paul Ellering also joined Crush and Animal in some six man tag team matches. When the newly formed team returned to, Animal and Crush both started wrestling singles matches and the team was no more. Shortly after Animal then left the WWF, because an injury to his back forced him into a lengthy hiatus.
New Japan Pro Wrestling The Hell Raisers and Road Warriors reunion (1992–1996). Professional wrestling tag team The Hell RaisersMembersHawk WarriorPower WarriorBilled heights6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – Hawk Warrior5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) – Power WarriorCombinedbilled weight518 lb (235 kg)Debut1992Disbanded1995Years active1992–1995When Hawk left the WWF after he traveled to and started working for (NJPW) where he quickly teamed up with young mid-carder who was soon dubbed 'Power Warrior' as he adopted the trademark Road Warrior face paint and spiked shoulder pads. The duo was dubbed 'The Hell Raisers' and carried on the legacy of the Road Warriors in NJPW winning the from and in December 1992 and then again from the team of Scott Norton and (known as the Jurassic Powers) in January 1994. They also competed in both the 1993 and 1994 versions of the Super Grade Tag league making it to the semi finals of the 1994 tournament before losing to and.Teaming with Hawk (or Hawk Warrior as he was called) helped elevate Kensuke Sasaki in the eyes of the fans, so much so that when the Hell Raisers broke up in the middle of 1995, Sasaki shed the Power Warrior gimmick and became a main eventer on the singles scene. On special occasions, Sasaki would break out the 'Power Warrior' persona, similar to and his 'Great Muta' persona.During this stint, they used the theme song ' by.When Animal came back from his back injury, he joined the duo in Japan in 1996. The three were announced collectively as the Road Warriors, using 'Iron Man' as their theme music.Return to WCW (1996) When Laurinaitis’ back was finally healed enough for him to return to wrestling, the Road Warriors signed a contract with WCW in late 1995. Upon their return in January 1996, immediately started a feud with the returning, as well as before moving on to challenging the WCW Tag Team Champions.
The Road Warriors had several shots at the champions but failed to win the titles.Hegstrand and Laurinaitis stayed with WCW for about six months, before leaving over a dispute with. The pair made claims that Bischoff promised them a second-highest paid contract, as well as a separate contract from Japan, something which he denies remembering. Return to the WWF Early feuds (1997–1998) After leaving WCW, the duo took various independent bookings both in the and before signing with the WWF, making their surprise return on the February 24, 1997 edition of where they destroyed, despite both teams being counted out. The Legion of Doom then went on to team with Ahmed Johnson to face nation of domination members, Farooq, Chainz, and Savio Vega in a steet fight at Wrestlmania 13 in their home town of Chicago. After defeating The Nation,they went on to doomsday device the team of PG 13. Before the match Amhed was given special shoulder pads like The LOD wear, however they were never returned.
The Legion of Doom would be heavily involved in the feud with the siding with, and at. The Legion of Doom also became 2-time WWF tag team champions on October 13, 1997 when they defeated. In November 1997, the Legion of Doom faced the newly formed ( and ) and lost the titles to the upstart team.The Legion of Doom would challenge the Outlaws several times in the next couple of months but could not win the gold.
On one episode of Raw, the Outlaws shaved the head of Road Warrior Hawk and were beaten down further by DX. On February 23, 1998, on Raw, the Legion of Doom seemed to have won the Tag Team titles back when they hit the Doomsday Device, but as Animal went for the pin, the referee was distracted by Hawk's celebration, allowing the Outlaws to take advantage and win the match. After the match, the Legion of Doom brawled with one another out of frustration and weren't seen on WWE television after that, indicating that the team was disbanded for good.LOD 2000 (1998–1999) Hawk and Animal next appeared as Legion of Doom 2000, billed as an updated version of the Road Warriors “for the new millennium”, at during a tag team. The duo sported a new look, including new shoulder pads and helmets (the helmets wouldn't last long, as Hawk got rid of his by throwing it to the crowd) and a new manager in. LOD 2000 won the battle royal and earned a shot at the tag team titles, but did not manage to win the gold.Sunny soon left the team and, then known as Puke (Darren Drozdov, a former for the who earned the name Puke when caught vomiting on ), started to accompany them to the ring. At the same time, returned, but sided with the (DOA), whom LOD were feuding with at the time; Ellering and Animal explained on the DVD it was hard for them to rip on each other on promos.
For the second time in the history of the Road Warriors they participated in a where tension arose between the members, teasing a break up. In this storyline, Hawk was seen by his partner Animal as unfit to wrestle and Puke was tapped to take Hawk's place in the tag team as an official member. The angle played off Hegstrand's real life alcohol and drug issues, going so far as to faking a suicide jump off the top of the TitanTron. After the angle bombed and both Hegstrand and Laurinaitis voiced their objections to it, the angle was dropped. The Legion of Doom made a very brief return, first on the March 22, 1999 Raw is War by attacking and in a backstage skit after the two impersonated LOD in a handicap match against, on the March 15, 1999 Raw is War. Both LOD entered the pre-WrestleMania battle royal with the last two participants getting a tag team title shot later at but both came up short.
They would make one final appearance on the March 29, 1999 Raw challenging and for the tag team titles but failed them; they left the WWF afterwards. Japan and Independent circuit (1999–2003) After leaving the WWF, the Road Warriors would appear for variousOn May 2, 1999 they returned to to team with as they defeated, and at the Giant Baba Memorial Show. Then they went to Australia winning the iGW Tag Team Titles against for pay-per-view on June 30, 2000.
They performed both as a team and individually.Animal would return to and competed solo in WCW in early 2001 before WWF bought the company in March 2001. Hegstrand dealt with his personal issues.In 2001 they feuded with for the Xcitement Wrestling Federation. On June 22, 2002, performing for International Wrestling Superstars (IWS), Road Warriors Animal and Hawk defeated the Headshrinkers for the World Tag-Team Championship. That victory also led to Team USA winning the international tournament held in.The Road Warriors also appeared very briefly in (TNA) during the early days of the promotion, saving, and debuting to what quoted as 'A 1985 Road Warrior Pop'.Hegstrand finally overcame his battle with addiction and became a appearing on 's religion and wrestling shows in 2003.Second return to WWE and Hawk's death (2003) The Road Warriors' last appearance as a team occurred on the May 12, 2003 Raw episode in a tag team match against the WWE World Tag Team Champions,. The Road Warriors had hoped to get a full-time contract with WWE but nothing ever came of it.Once again they returned to Japan competing in Fighting Of World Japan Pro-Wrestling defeating for the Tag Team titles on March 1, 2003.
They dropped the titles to the Twins three months later. Their last match was defeating The Shane Twins on July 11, 2003.Road Warrior Hawk died five months later on October 19, 2003.Third return to WWE LOD 2005 (2005–2006) Animal would later return to WWE in 2005, teaming with in a feud against the tag team. At on July 24, 2005, Animal and Heidenreich defeated MNM to win the in a match personally dedicated by Animal to Hawk.
After winning the titles Heidenreich changed his appearance, to a look that better suited the Legion of Doom image by shaving his hair into a mohawk and wearing face paint.On August 18, 2005, Heidenreich was officially made part of LOD and was presented with his own 'Road Warrior spikes'. Shortly after winning the tag team titles, Animal paid tribute to his late partner and friend by looking up to the heavens above and saying, 'Hawk, this one's for you, brother!'
During their feud with MNM, LOD were joined by, who acted as a valet/manager for a short while.On the October 28, 2005 edition of, LOD lost the tag team titles to MNM in a Fatal Four-Way tag match that also featured and and ( and ). A few months later, on January 17, 2006, Heidenreich was released from WWE. Animal continued to perform for WWE under his old persona, The Road Warrior, for a few months before he was also released. Professional wrestling tag team The Hell WarriorsMembersAnimal WarriorPower WarriorBilled heights6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) – Animal Warrior5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) – Power WarriorCombinedbilled weight528 lb (239 kg)DebutSeptember 1, 2007DisbandedFebruary 13, 2014The Hell Warriors (2007–2014) On September 1, 2007, Road Warrior Animal appeared for (AJPW) and teamed with Sasaki to form the Hell Warriors, with Animal being billed as 'Animal Warrior' to match up with Sasaki's 'Power Warrior' and Hawk's 'Hawk Warrior' gimmick. The newly formed Hell Warriors defeated the team of and.On May 11, 2008, The Hell Warriors wrestled in Toryumon Mexico's Dragon-Mania show. Online World of Wrestling.
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