The Road Warriors
| The Road Warriors | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members |
Road Warrior Hawk Road Warrior Animal Paul Ellering (manager) Crush Droz Heidenreich Power Warrior Sunny (valet) Christy Hemme (valet) Ahmed Johnson |
| Name(s) | The Road Warriors Legion of Doom The Hell Raisers LOD 2000 LOD 2005 The Hell Warriors |
| Combined weight |
575 lb (261 kg; 41.1 st) |
| Billed from | Chicago, Illinois |
| Debut | 1983 |
| Disbanded | 2014 |
| Years active | 1983–2014 |
| Promotions |
GCW AWA JCP WCW WWF/E AJPW NJPW TNA UPW SWS ZERO1 World Japan |
| The Hell Raisers | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Hawk Warrior Power Warrior |
| Heights | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) – Hawk Warrior 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) – Power Warrior |
| Combined weight |
518 lb (235 kg) |
| Debut | 1992 |
| Disbanded | 1995 |
| Years active | 1992–1995 |
| Promotions | NJPW |
| The Hell Warriors | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Animal Warrior Power Warrior |
| Heights | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) – Animal Warrior 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) – Power Warrior |
| Combined weight |
528 lb (239 kg) |
| Debut | September 1, 2007 |
| Disbanded | February 13, 2014 |
| Promotions |
All Japan Pro Wrestling Kensuke Office Toryumon Mexico |
The Road Warriors were a professional wrestling tag team composed of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis. They performed under the name "Road Warriors" in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the name Legion of Doom (LOD) in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) (despite the altered team name, they were still individually introduced as "Road Warrior" Hawk and "Road Warrior" Animal). Under either name, their gimmick was the same – two imposing muscular wrestlers in face paint. For brief periods, other wrestlers were added as stand-in partners for both men. In Japan in the 1990s, Kensuke "Power Warrior" Sasaki often teamed with Hawk and Animal, separately and together.
Hawk and Animal were known for their impressive physiques, and revolutionized the business by popularizing the use of face paint, and introducing a tandem maneuver known as the Doomsday Device. Both men used the move as a team finisher 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.
In 1983, "Precious" Paul Ellering formed a stable called The Legion of Doom in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Georgia Championship Wrestling territory. The group consisted of the Road Warriors, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, The Spoiler, King Kong Bundy, and Buzz Sawyer. Animal had briefly competed as the Road Warrior before Ellering paired him up with fellow Chicagoan Hawk to form 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 (2005)" DVD set that the name "Legion of Doom" was taken from the Super Friends cartoon.
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