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Mike Hegstrand

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🎂 September 12, 1957📍 Chicago, Illinois, USA🕯️ October 19, 2003 · Age 46

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Michael James Hegstrand was an American professional wrestler. He is best remembered as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as The Road Warriors (WCW) or The Legion of Doom (WWE), with Road Warrior Animal. ) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as The Road Warriors (The Legion of Doom in WWE), with Road Warrior Animal. Outside The Road Warriors, Hawk was a sporadic challenger for world heavyweight championships on pay-per-view from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. He headlined the 1993 edition of ECW's premier annual event, November to Remember While the Road Warriors never officially broke up, Animal started making an increasing number of solo appearances after they left WWE as Hegstrand struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and generally did not appear at many wrestling shows during this time. In 2001 Hegstrand was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that stopped him from wrestling for a short while. He was able to overcome its effects and returned to a regular working schedule later on. On June 22, 2002 International Wrestling Superstars, Road Warriors Animal & Hawk defeated The Headshrinkers for the World Tag-Team Championship. That victory also led to Team USA winning the Animal and Hawk made a surprise appearance on Raw on May 12, 2003 when they took on Kane and Rob Van Dam for the World Tag Team Championship. Although Hawk and Animal came up short in their attempt to become three-time champions, it was clear that Hawk had defeated the demons that had once kept him from competing, and The Road Warriors had hopes of returning to WWE. Later in 2003, Hawk made an appearance with the All World Wrestling League, a take-off of the 'original' Big Time Wrestling that was owned by The Original Sheik who died earlier that year; it was run by the sons of The Sheik, Eddie and Tom Farhat. They decided to book Hawk for an event in Holt, Michigan; that event was the second to last time Hawk wrestled. Two weeks before he died he wrestled his final match with Ted DiBiase in Oshawa, Ontario against Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and Marcus "Buff" Bagwell. Death and legacy Hegstrand died on October 19, 2003 in the early morning in his home in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida. He was 46 years old. His friends said that he and his wife Dale had recently bought a condominium near their current home and were packing their boxes the night before. Hegstrand said that he felt tired and went to take a nap. When his wife checked on him at about 1 a.m., he had died of a sudden heart attack. At the time of his death, Hawk and Animal were working on a book about their careers. Animal returned to WWE in mid-2005 and decided to dedicate his entire run to Hegstrand, including his tag team title victory with Heidenreich at The Great American Bash. On the March 28, 2011 episode of Raw, it was announced that the Road Warriors would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2011. On April 2, 2011, the night before WrestleMania XXVII they, along with Paul Ellering were inducted into the Hall Of Fame by Dusty Rhodes. Road Warrior Hawk was included, along with his tag team partner, Road Warrior Animal, in the Attitude Era, in the game WWE '13.

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Mike Hegstrand

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WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2

WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash

WCW'S Greatest Pay-Per-View Matches Volume 1

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1

WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches

WWE: The Best Of In Your House

The Very Best of Monday Nitro: Volume 2

The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions

WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches

WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection

The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.1

WWE Hall of Fame 2011

Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain

TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments

Legends Never Die

Road Warriors: The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History

WWE: Road Warriors - The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History

The Monday Night War - WWE Raw vs. WCW Nitro

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Battlarts Battle Fiction

WWE Judgment Day: In Your House

WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House

WWE Over the Edge: In Your House

WWE Unforgiven: In Your House

WWE Mayhem in Manchester

WWE WrestleMania XIV

WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House

WWE Royal Rumble 1998

WWE D-Generation X: In Your House

WWE Survivor Series 1997

WWE Badd Blood: In Your House

WWE One Night Only

WWE Ground Zero: In Your House

WWE SummerSlam 1997

WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede

WWE King of the Ring 1997

Best Of Raw • Volume Four

WWE In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker

WWE WrestleMania 13

WCW Slamboree 1996

NJPW Battle Formation '96

WCW Uncensored 1996

WCW SuperBrawl VI

WCW World War 3 1995

WCW Halloween Havoc 1995

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI

WCW Slamboree 1995

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1995

NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea

SMW Night of The Legends

WCW Starrcade 1993

WCW BattleBowl

ECW November to Remember 1993

WCW Clash of the Champions XXV

WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV

WWE Bashed in the USA

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1993

NWA Grandslam

NJPW Hyper Battle 1993 - Day 11

NJPW Battle Zone Space II

WWE Rampage '92

WWE SummerSlam 1992

WWE World Tour 1992

WWE WrestleFest '92

WWE UK Rampage

WWE UK Rampage '92

WWE WrestleMania VIII

WWE Invasion '92

WWE SuperTape: Volume 5

WWE Royal Rumble 1992

WWE Survivor Series 1991

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1991

WWE Battle Royal at the Albert Hall

WWE SummerSlam 1991

WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91

WWE WrestleFest '91