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Joseph Michael "Joe" Laurinaitis (September 12, 1960 – September 22, 2020), better known by his ring name Road Warrior Animal (or simply Animal), was an American professional wrestler. Along with Road Warrior Hawk , he was one-half of the tag team the Road Warriors (also known as the Legion of Doom ).
Class of 2011 (Inducted Members: Road Warrior Animal, Road Warrior Hawk, and Paul Ellering) [51] Pro Wrestling Illustrated. PWI Tag Team of the Year (1983–1985, 1988) PWI Feud of the Year (1987) with Dusty Rhodes and Nikita Koloff vs. Four Horsemen; PWI ranked them #1 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003; Quebec Wrestling ...
Jon Heidenreich (born June 28, 1969) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known simply as Heidenreich.He is best known for his tenure with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its SmackDown brand where he was a one time WWE Tag Team Champion with Road Warrior Animal as a part of the 2005 version of the Legion of Doom.
Throughout 1998 he managed the Disciples of Apocalypse, who were then feuding with the Legion of Doom; according to Ellering and Animal on the Road Warriors DVD, Ellering had a hard time working with another team against Hawk and Animal, and had difficulty ripping on his former team on the microphone.
He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors (or the "Legion of Doom"), with Road Warrior Animal. Outside of the Road Warriors, Hawk was a sporadic challenger for world heavyweight championships on pay-per-view from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
The final of the Crockett Cup took place pitting Road Warriors against Magnum T. A. and Ron Garvin. Garvin hurt his injured hand by hitting Road Warrior Hawk in the face and tended to his hand which allowed Road Warrior Animal to hit a lariat to Garvin to win the match and the Crockett Cup in the process.
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His father Joe wrestled as Road Warrior Animal, one half of legendary wrestling tag-team The Road Warriors with Road Warrior Hawk. [67] His uncle Marcus wrestled in Europe, Japan, and the United States as The Terminator and later Fury. [68] His other uncle, John, wrestled as Johnny Ace and was a star in Japan, later becoming an executive with ...