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Road Warriors

Members: Hawk & Animal

Pro Debut: 1983

Combined Weight: 560 lbs.

Feds Worked For: MSW, UWF, AWA, NWA, NWA-TNA, WCW, WWE, WWF, All Japan Pro Wrestling (Japan), Big Time Wrestling (CA), Central States Wrestling (IA/KS/MO), Championship Wrestling from Florida (FL), Championship Wrestling from Georgia (GA), Continental Wrestling Association (AL/TN), Fighting Investigation Team Battlarts (Japan), Fighting of World Japan Pro-Wrestling (Japan), Georgia Championship Wrestling (GA), i-Generation Wrestling (Australia), International Wrestling (Canada), IWA Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), Jersey Championship Wrestling (NJ), Maryland Championship Wrestling (MD), Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (NC/SC), New Japan Pro Wrestling (Japan), Pacific Northwest Wrestling (OR/WA), Portland Wrestling (OR), Premier Championship Wrestling (Canada), Pro Wrestling USA, Pro Wrestling ZERO1 (Japan), St. Louis Wrestling Club (MO), Super World Sports (Japan), Superstars of Wrestling, Ultimate Pro Wrestling (CA), World League Wrestling (KS/MO/OK), World Wrestling Council (Puerto Rico), X Wrestling Federation (FL/IN/WI)

Finisher: Doomsday Device

Signature Moves: Powerslam, Clothesline

Career Highlights: -AWA World Tag Team Champions
-i-Generation Tag Team Champions
-IPW Tag Team Champions
-IWS World Tag Team Champions
-NWA International Tag Team Champion
-NWA National Tag Team Champion (4x)
-NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champions (3x; 2 w/ Dusty Rhodes, 1 w/ Genichiro Tenryu)
-NWA World Tag Team Champions
-SOW Tag Team Champions
-World Japan Tag Team Champions
-WWF World Tag Team Champions (2x)
-1986 Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup Winners
-1989 Iron Team Tournament Winners
-1991 Super World Sports One Night Tag Team Tournament Winners

Affiliates: Paul Ellering, The Legion of Doom, Sunny, Dusty Rhodes, Genichiro Tenryu, Droz/Puke, Christy Hemme, Kensuke Sasaki, Jimmy Hart

Notable Feuds: The Midnight Express, The Russians, Public Enemy, The Powers of Pain

Other Facts: -Former members of The Legion of Doom
-When in WWF, they were known as The Legion of Doom and LOD 2000.
-Droz was a member of LOD 2000 in 1998 with both Animal & Hawk
-Heidenreich was also a member of Legion of Doom in 2005 with Animal after Hawk's death.
-Won Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Rookies of the Year Award in 1983
-Won Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Tag Team of the Year Award in 1984
-Voted Tag Team of the Year by the readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1988
-Voted Feud of the Year (w/ Dusty Rhodes & Nikita Koloff vs. The Four Horsemen) by the readers of Pro Wrestling Illustrated in 1987
-In 2003, Pro Wrestling Illustrated named The Road Warriors #1 of the 100 Best Tag Teams during the "PWI Years"
-Tokyo Sports Special Foreigner Award Winners in 1985
-Inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996
-Inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum (w/ Paul Ellering) in 2011
-Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (w/ Paul Ellering) in 2011
-Inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame in 2012
-Inducted into the Quebec Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2015
-Inducted into the NWA Hall of Heroes in 2016
-Hawk's alcohol and drug abuse and eventual death was the subject of an episode of VICE's "Dark Side of the Ring" in 2020. The episode was entitled "The Last Ride of the Road Warrior" and was narrated by Chris Jericho.
-Hawk passed away October 19, 2003 as a result of a heart attack at the age of 43.
-Animal passed away September 23, 2020 at the age of 60.