On the October 28, 2005 edition of SmackDown!, LOD lost the tag team titles to MNM in a Fatal Four-Way tag match that also featured Paul Burchill and William Regal and The Mexicools (Super Crazy and Psicosis). During the match, The New Age Outlaws attacked L.O.D. On February 23, 1998, on Raw, the Legion of Doom seemed to have won the Tag Team titles back when they hit the Doomsday Device, but as Animal went for the pin, the referee was distracted by Hawk's celebration, allowing the Outlaws to take advantage and win the match. in the finals. Hawk and Animal next appeared as Legion of Doom 2000, billed as an updated version of the Road Warriors “for the new millennium”, at WrestleMania XIV during a tag team Battle Royal. That victory also led to Team USA winning the international tournament held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After high school, he had various odd jobs to make ends meet such as a butcher. The CAC 2020 Tag Team Award will go to the Road Warriors! [8] In November 1997, the Legion of Doom faced the newly formed New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) and lost the titles to the upstart team.[8]. This led to the conclusion of the storyline, in which a suicidal Hawk climbed to the top of the TitanTron, the giant television monitor erected during episodes of WWF's Raw Is War to show match highlights to fans in attendance. Ax was moved into a role as manager for the team with the hope of taking a front office position, which eventually fell through. [7] The two dominated NJPW's tag team ranks for a while through their two wins of the IWGP Tag Team Championship,[9] but no North American promoter thought about bringing them as a team, due to Sasaki's affiliation with NJPW. At the time of his death, Hawk and Animal were working on a book about their careers. The Road Warriors, also known as the Legion of Doom, were a professional wrestling tag team composed of Road Warrior Hawk and Road Warrior Animal They performed under the name "The Road Warriors" in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance, and World Championship Wrestling, and the name "Legion of Doom" in the World Wrestling Federation. While living in Minneapolis, Hegstrand attended Patrick Henry High School where he graduated in 1976. [8] Hawk and Animal would spend the rest of their tenure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) (as JCP became known after being purchased by Turner Broadcasting System in 1988) feuding with teams like The Samoan Swat Team[18][19] and The Skyscrapers. When Animal suffered a severe back injury a short while later, everyone thought it was the end of the legendary team. This article is about the professional wrestling team.