Made for Viceland, airing May 12th in the US.
Season 2. Episode 9.
The story: They had the look and power.
The Road Warriors, AKA Mike "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joe "Animal" Laurinaitis became overnight sensations.
They were real-life badasses when all the other wrestlers were just trying to be badass.
Both from Minneapolis, in 1977 they both began bouncing at a local club together.
There they were scouted into the professional wrestling world, but not together or at the same time.
Not until after they decided to return to Minneapolis after giving wrestling a try and not making any cash were they finally marketed in the wrestling world as a tag team.
They were also marketed as champions, which they were yet to become.
Japan made them overnight successes and soon the tag team was all over the world as the main event.
By 1986 the Road Warriors were ready to be WWF performers and changed their name to Legion of Doom.
But after an injury, Mike began abusing medications.
Things got bad and the tag team separated for some time, going their own way.
In 1997 WWF had a new marketing idea for them which seemed like it may be a step in the comeback direction but that quickly fizzled out as well.
It was not until Mike decided to change his life around that things were finally going in the right direction for him.
Unfortunately far more damage to his health had been done at that point.
Stars (voice) Chris Jericho, Joe "Animal" Laurinaitis, Barry Darsow, Paul Ellering, Nikita Koloff, Rich Hegstrand, Dan Hegstrand, Scott "Flash" Norton, Eddie Sharkey, Charles "The Godfather" Wright, Darren Adrian Drozdov AKA Puke
Directed by Jason Eisener
Rated TV14
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY/SERIES
"They were bad boys. But when they were bad, they were very good."
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