Road Warrior Hawk
Michael James Hegstrand (September 12, 1957 – October 19, 2003) was an American professional wrestler who was best known for wrestling with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name, Road Warrior Hawk. He is probably best known for wrestling as one half of the tag team, Road Warriors in WCW and The Legion of Doom in WWF. On April 2, 2011, He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Dusty Rhodes as part of The Road Warriors along with their manager, Paul Ellering.[1]
| Road Warrior Hawk | |
|---|---|
| Ring name(s) | Crusher Von Haig Road Warrior Hawk Hawk Warrior |
| Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Billed weight | 275 lb (125 kg) |
| Born | January 26, 1957 Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S. |
| Died | October 19, 2003 (aged 46) Indian Rocks Beach, Florida |
| Billed from | Chicago, Illinois |
| Trained by | Eddie Sharkey |
| Debut | June 6, 1983 |
Championships
Hegstrand held many championships during his professional wrestling career:
- All Japan Pro Wrestling
- NWA International Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- American Wrestling Association
- AWA World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Catch Wrestling Association
- CWA World Heavyweight Championship (one time)
- Fighting World of Japan Pro Wrestling
- World Japan Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Georgia Championship Wrestling
- NWA National Tag Team Championship (four times) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- i-Generation Superstars of Wrestling
- i-Generation Tag Team Championship (two times) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Independent Pro Wrestling
- IPW Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling
- NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (three times) with Road Warrior Animal and Dusty Rhodes (two) and Road Warrior Animal and Genichiro Tenryu (one)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (one time) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Iron Team Tournament in 1989 (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup in 1986 (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation
- MEWF Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Ultimate Comet)
- New Japan Pro Wrestling
- IWGP Tag Team Championship (two time) (with Power Warrior)
- Professional Championship Wrestling (Texas)
- PWC Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- (Class of 2011) (As a member of the Road Warriors)
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Tag Team of the Year (1983, 1984, 1985, 1988) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- PWI Feud of the Year in 1987 (with Road Warrior Animal and The Super Powers (Dusty Rhodes and Nikita Koloff) vs. The Four Horsemen (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, and Lex Luger))
- PWI ranked him #1 out of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Road Warrior Animal as The Road Warriors in 2003.
- PWI ranked him #47 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- World Wrestling Federation
- WWF Tag Team Championship (two times) (with Road Warrior Animal)
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2011)[1]
- Wrestlemania XIV 15 tag team battle royal winner (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- Rookies of the Year award in 1983 (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Tag Team of the Year in 1984 (with Road Warrior Animal)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
- Other titles
- MTW Tag Team Championship (one time) – with Bobo Brazil, Jr.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hall of Fame: 2011 WWE Hall of Fame Inductees - The Road Warriors & Paul Ellering". WWE. Archived from the original on 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2013-11-15.