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The Road Warriors, also known as the Legion of Doom, were a professional wrestling tag team. They competed in many different professional wrestling promotions. They were known for competing in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment. The team's original members were Hawk and Animal.
Road Warriors | |
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Stable | |
Members | Road Warrior Hawk Road Warrior Animal Power Warrior Droz Heidenreich Paul Ellering (manager) Sunny (valet) Christy Hemme (valet) |
Name(s) | Road Warriors Legion of Doom Hell Raisers Triple Warriors LOD 2000 LOD 2005 Hell Warriors |
Combined billed weight | 575 lb (261 kg; 41.1 st)[1] |
Billed from | Chicago, Illinois |
Debut | 1983 |
Disbanded | 2014 |
Years active | 1983–2014 |
They were joined by their manager "Precious" Paul Ellering. Droz joined the team after an angle happened that was based off of Road Warrior Hawk’s real life alcohol and drug issues.[2] The angle even went so far as to fake a suicide jump off the top of the TitanTron.[2] The angle bombed and both members said that they disliked it and left the WWF in 1999.[2] Their last TV appearance as a team was on the May 12, 2003 episode of Raw when they faced World Tag Team Champions Rob Van Dam and Kane.[3] Hawk died on October 19, 2003 from a heart attack.[4]
Animal returned to the WWE in 2005 and teamed with Heidenreich.[5] They won the WWE Tag Team Championship after defeating MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro) at The Great American Bash on July 24, 2005.[6] Heidenreich became an official member of the Legion of Doom on August 18, 2005. They were also manged by Christy Hemme during that time. They lost the tag team titles on the October 28, 2005 edition of SmackDown! to MNM in a Fatal Four-Way tag team match that also featured Paul Burchill and William Regal and The Mexicools (Super Crazy and Psicosis).[7] Heidenreich was released from WWE on January 17, 2006 and Animal was released a few months later.[8][9]
On April 2, 2011, The Road Warriors, along with Paul Ellering, were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Dusty Rhodes.[10] Animal died on September 22, 2020, also from a heart attack.[11]
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