1957-09-12 ( 67 years old ) in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Movies
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
2016-08-09
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2
2014-11-03
WCW'S Greatest Pay-Per-View Matches Volume 1
2014-03-12
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
2014-03-11
WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches
2013-06-25
WWE: The Best Of In Your House
2013-05-27
The Very Best of Monday Nitro: Volume 2
2013-02-12
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
2012-05-22
WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection
2012-01-03
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.1
2011-08-07
WWE Hall of Fame 2011
2011-04-02
Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain
2009-04-14
TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments
2006-11-21
Legends Never Die
2006-06-01
The Monday Night War - WWE Raw vs. WCW Nitro
2004-02-03
Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
1998-12-20
Battlarts Battle Fiction
1998-11-23
WWE Judgment Day: In Your House
1998-10-18
WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
1998-07-26
WWE Over the Edge: In Your House
1998-05-31
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
1998-04-25
WWE Mayhem in Manchester
1998-04-03
WWE WrestleMania XIV
1998-03-29
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
1998-02-15
WWE Royal Rumble 1998
1998-01-18
WWE D-Generation X: In Your House
1997-12-07
WWE Survivor Series 1997
1997-11-09
WWE Badd Blood: In Your House
1997-10-05
WWE One Night Only
1997-09-20
WWE Ground Zero: In Your House
1997-09-07
WWE SummerSlam 1997
1997-08-02
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
1997-07-06
WWE King of the Ring 1997
1997-06-08
Best Of Raw • Volume Four
1997-06-01
WWE In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
1997-04-19
WWE WrestleMania 13
1997-03-23
WCW Slamboree 1996
1996-05-19
NJPW Battle Formation '96
1996-04-29
WCW Uncensored 1996
1996-03-24
WCW SuperBrawl VI
1996-02-11
WCW World War 3 1995
1995-11-26
WCW Halloween Havoc 1995
1995-10-29
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
1995-08-06
WCW Slamboree 1995
1995-05-21
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1995
1995-05-03
NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea
1995-04-28
SMW Night of The Legends
1994-08-05
WCW Starrcade 1993
1993-12-27
WCW Battle Bowl
1993-11-20
ECW November to Remember 1993
1993-11-13
WCW Clash of the Champions XXV
1993-11-10
WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV
1993-08-18
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1993
1993-05-03
NWA Grandslam
1993-04-17
NJPW Hyper Battle 1993 - Day 11
1993-03-23
NJPW Battle Zone Space II
1992-11-23
WWE Rampage '92
1992-10-22
WWE SummerSlam 1992
1992-08-29
WWE WrestleFest '92
1992-07-23
WWE U.K. Rampage 1992
1992-04-19
WWE U.K. Rampage Tour '92: Munich
1992-04-14
WWE WrestleMania VIII
1992-04-05
WWE Invasion '92
1992-03-26
WWF SuperTape '92
1992-02-27
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
1992-01-19
WWE Survivor Series 1991
1991-11-27
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1991
1991-11-24
WWE Battle Royal at the Albert Hall
1991-10-03
WWE SummerSlam 1991
1991-08-26
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91
1991-08-18
WWE WrestleFest '91
1991-07-25
2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars
1991-06-27
WWE SuperTape vol. 4
1991-05-23
WWE WrestleMania VII
1991-03-24
WWE The Main Event V
1991-01-28
WWE SuperTape vol. 3
1991-01-24
WWE Royal Rumble 1991
1991-01-19
WWE Survivor Series 1990
1990-11-22
WWE Survivor Series Showdown '90
1990-11-18
WWE SummerSlam 1990
1990-08-27
WCW Capital Combat: The Return of RoboCop
1990-05-19
NWA WrestleWar '90: Wild Thing
1990-02-25
NWA Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout
1990-02-06
WCW Starrcade '89: Future Shock
1989-12-13
WCW Halloween Havoc '89
1989-10-28
NWA WrestleWar '89: The Music City Showdown
1989-05-07
NWA Clash of The Champions VI: Ragin' Cajun
1989-04-02
NWA Live: March 18, 1989
1989-03-18
NWA Chi-Town Rumble
1989-02-20
NWA Starrcade '88: True Gritt
1988-12-26
NWA Clash of the Champions
1988-03-27
NWA Bunkhouse Stampede
1988-01-24
NWA Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat!
1987-11-26
NWA The Great American Bash '87: War Games
1987-07-31
NWA Super Towns on The SuperStation
1987-02-07
NWA Battle of the Belts III
1986-09-01
NWA Great American Bash '86 Tour: Greensboro
1986-07-26
NWA Great American Bash '86 Tour: Charlotte
1986-07-05
AWA: WrestleRock '86
1986-04-20
NWA Battle of The Belts II
1986-02-14
NWA Superstars on The SuperStation
1986-02-07
AWA/NWA Night of Champions II
1985-12-29
Pro Wrestling USA Star Wars: December 1984
1985-12-25
AWA Super Clash
1985-09-25
PNW Owen Family Super Extravaganza
1985-09-24
AWA Wrestling For a Cure
1985-08-16
NWA The Great American Bash 1985
1985-07-16
PNW 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza
1985-05-21
AWA StarCage
1985-04-21
PWUSA Star Wars
1985-02-24
NWA Battle of the Belts
1985-02-09
AWA Christmas Show 1984
1984-12-25
NWA Lords of The Ring
1984-06-30
NWA Night of Champions
1984-05-30
GCW at The Omni (December '83)
1983-12-04
NWA The Last Battle of Atlanta
1983-10-23
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