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Mike Hegstrand

AKA: Road Warrior Hawk
Birthday: 1957-09-12
Died: 2003-10-19
Birthplace: 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.

Filmography

Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Royal Rumble 1998
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
AWA/NWA Night of Champions II
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA Grandslam
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE WrestleFest '91
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE WrestleFest '92
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE SuperTape vol. 3
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE SuperTape vol. 4
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWF SuperTape '92
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Invasion '92
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Rampage '92
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE WrestleMania VII
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE WrestleMania 13
Character: Hawk
WWE Royal Rumble 1991
Character: Hawk

WWE Judgment Day: In Your House
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Survivor Series 1990
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE SummerSlam 1991
Character: Hawk
WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA The Great American Bash 1985
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat!
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA The Great American Bash '87: War Games
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA Bunkhouse Stampede
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA Starrcade '88: True Gritt
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA Chi-Town Rumble
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WCW Halloween Havoc '89
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Starrcade '89: Future Shock
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Capital Combat: The Return of RoboCop
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE King of the Ring 1997
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE SummerSlam 1997
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Survivor Series 1997
Character: Hawk

WWE Mayhem in Manchester
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Over the Edge: In Your House
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Starrcade 1993
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Slamboree 1995
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WCW Halloween Havoc 1995
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW SuperBrawl VI
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Uncensored 1996
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WCW Slamboree 1996
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
AWA Christmas Show 1984
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

PWUSA Star Wars
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
Pro Wrestling USA Star Wars: December 1984
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
GCW at The Omni (December '83)
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA Live: March 18, 1989
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
AWA Super Clash
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
PNW 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

PNW Owen Family Super Extravaganza
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
Character: Road Warrior Hawk (Appearance)


NWA Battle of the Belts
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
SMW Night of The Legends
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2
Character: Hawk


TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments
Character: Road Warrior Hawk


NWA Superstars on The SuperStation
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA Super Towns on The SuperStation
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
AWA StarCage
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

Legends Never Die
Character: Road Warrior Hawk (archive footage)
Battlarts Battle Fiction
Character: Hawk Warrior
AWA: WrestleRock '86
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1993
Character: Hawk Warrior
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1995
Character: Hawk Warrior
NJPW Battle Zone Space II
Character: Hawk Warrior

NWA The Last Battle of Atlanta
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Clash of the Champions
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WCW Clash of The Champions IV: Season's Beatings
Character: Road Warrior Hawk (Ringside)
WCW Clash of The Champions VI: Ragin' Cajun
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WCW Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

AWA Wrestling For a Cure
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA WrestleWar '90: Wild Thing
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA WrestleWar '89: The Music City Showdown
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE SummerSlam 1990
Character: Road Warrior Hawk (Ringside)
WWE Survivor Series Showdown '90
Character: Road Warrior Hawk (Appearance)
NWA Night of Champions
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NJPW Battle Formation '96
Character: Hawk Warrior
NWA Lords of The Ring
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA Great American Bash '86 Tour: Charlotte
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA Great American Bash '86 Tour: Greensboro
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

NWA Battle of the Belts III
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NWA Battle of The Belts II
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE The Main Event V
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE WrestleMania XIV
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW World War 3 1995
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE SummerSlam 1992
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Battle Royal at the Albert Hall
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1991
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Survivor Series 1991
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE WrestleMania VIII
Character: Road Warrior Hawk (Interview)
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIV
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE U.K. Rampage 1992
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WCW Clash of The Champions XXV
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WCW Battle Bowl
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
ECW November to Remember 1993
Character: Road Warrior Hawk

WWE U.K. Rampage Tour '92: Munich
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
WWE One Night Only
Character: Hawk

NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea
Character: Road Warrior Hawk
NJPW Hyper Battle 1993 - Day 11
Character: Hawk Warrior