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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.
When Hawk and Animal signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1990, Vince McMahon retired the Road Warriors moniker, since at the time there were other wrestlers with "warrior" in their names, such as The Ultimate Warrior and Kerry Von Erich "The Modern Day Warrior". [24]
Road Warrior Hawk (with Paul Ellering) defeated Ric Flair (c) (with J. J. Dillon) by disqualification: Singles match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship: 21:39: 5: Dusty Rhodes defeated Arn Anderson, The Barbarian, Ivan Koloff, Lex Luger, Road Warrior Animal, Tully Blanchard and The Warlord: Steel Cage Bunkhouse Stampede: 26:21
Road Warrior Hawk and Road Warrior Animal: 2003 The Mushroom Boyz: Pondarosa and Sweeden House 2006 The Original Dream Team: Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine: 2001-2003 2007 Pimp and Gimp Connection Zach Gowen and Human Tornado: 2007–2008 The Powers of Pain: The Barbarian and The Warlord: 2006 The Rainbow Coalition
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.
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 ...
The Road Warriors had an early advantage. As Hawk had Blanchard in the gorilla press, Anderson attacked Hawk's left knee, which the champions continued to target with the use of the ring post and a chair. Anderson attempted a seated senton, but Hawk raised his knees and hit Anderson's groin. The Road Warriors regained the advantage, and ...
During this time, he formed The Powers of Pain with The Warlord and the team began feuding heavily with another team of big men, The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk). [14] Vailahi made his pay-per-view debut at the Bunkhouse Stampede Finals pay-per-view on 24 January 1988, as a participant in a Steel cage Bunkhouse Stampede.