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    Mike Hegstrand

    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

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    WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches
    100 %|Jun 25, 2013
    Action, Documentary
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    WWE Hall of Fame 2011
    100 %|Apr 2, 2011
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    Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
    75 %|Dec 20, 1998
    Documentary
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    WWE Judgment Day: In Your House
    87 %|Oct 18, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
    63 %|Jul 26, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Over the Edge: In Your House
    90 %|May 31, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
    93 %|Apr 25, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Mayhem in Manchester
    0 %|Apr 3, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
    71 %|Feb 15, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1998
    67 %|Jan 18, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE D-Generation X: In Your House
    78 %|Dec 7, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Survivor Series 1997
    88 %|Nov 9, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Badd Blood: In Your House
    71 %|Oct 5, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE SummerSlam 1997
    80 %|Aug 2, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
    90 %|Jul 6, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE King of the Ring 1997
    0 %|Jun 8, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
    0 %|Apr 19, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE WrestleMania 13
    75 %|Mar 23, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WCW Slamboree 1996
    0 %|May 19, 1996
    Action
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    WCW Uncensored 1996
    0 %|Mar 24, 1996
    Action
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    WCW SuperBrawl VI
    94 %|Feb 11, 1996
    Action
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    WCW Halloween Havoc 1995
    70 %|Oct 29, 1995
    Action
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    WCW Slamboree 1995
    0 %|May 21, 1995
    Action
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    WCW Starrcade 1993
    0 %|Dec 27, 1993
    Action
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    NWA Grandslam
    0 %|Apr 17, 1993
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    WWE Rampage '92
    0 %|Oct 22, 1992
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    WWE WrestleFest '92
    0 %|Jul 23, 1992
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    WWE Invasion '92
    0 %|Mar 26, 1992
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    WWF SuperTape '92
    0 %|Feb 27, 1992
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    WWE SummerSlam 1991
    78 %|Aug 26, 1991
    Action, Drama
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    WWE WrestleFest '91
    0 %|Jul 25, 1991
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    WWE SuperTape vol. 4
    0 %|May 23, 1991
    poster
    WWE WrestleMania VII
    73 %|Mar 24, 1991
    Action, Drama
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    WWE SuperTape vol. 3
    100 %|Jan 24, 1991
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1991
    78 %|Jan 19, 1991
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Survivor Series 1990
    82 %|Nov 22, 1990
    Action, Drama
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    WCW Starrcade '89: Future Shock
    74 %|Dec 13, 1989
    Action
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    WCW Halloween Havoc '89
    67 %|Oct 28, 1989
    Action
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    WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2
    90 %|Nov 3, 2014
    Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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    The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.1
    79 %|Aug 7, 2011
    Action, Documentary, Drama
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    Legends Never Die
    0 %|Jun 1, 2006
    Documentary
    actor
    Battlarts Battle Fiction
    0 %|Nov 23, 1998
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    WWE WrestleMania XIV
    76 %|Mar 29, 1998
    Action, Drama
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    WWE One Night Only
    70 %|Sep 20, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Ground Zero: In Your House
    100 %|Sep 7, 1997
    Action, Drama
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    WCW World War 3 1995
    0 %|Nov 26, 1995
    Action
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    NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea
    0 %|Apr 28, 1995
    Action
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    SMW Night of The Legends
    60 %|Aug 5, 1994
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    WCW Battle Bowl
    0 %|Nov 20, 1993
    Action
    poster
    WWE SummerSlam 1992
    81 %|Aug 29, 1992
    Action, Drama
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    WWE U.K. Rampage 1992
    50 %|Apr 19, 1992
    Action, Drama
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    WWE WrestleMania VIII
    81 %|Apr 5, 1992
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Royal Rumble 1992
    71 %|Jan 19, 1992
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Survivor Series 1991
    78 %|Nov 27, 1991
    Action, Drama
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    WWE Battle Royal at the Albert Hall
    60 %|Oct 3, 1991
    Action, Drama
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    WWE The Main Event V
    0 %|Jan 28, 1991
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    WWE SummerSlam 1990
    63 %|Aug 27, 1990
    Action, Drama
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    NWA WrestleWar '90: Wild Thing
    78 %|Feb 25, 1990
    Action
    actor
    NWA Live: March 18, 1989
    0 %|Mar 18, 1989
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    NWA Chi-Town Rumble
    85 %|Feb 20, 1989
    Action
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    NWA Starrcade '88: True Gritt
    70 %|Dec 26, 1988
    Action
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    NWA Bunkhouse Stampede
    65 %|Jan 24, 1988
    Action
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    NWA Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat!
    52 %|Nov 26, 1987
    Action
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    AWA: WrestleRock '86
    100 %|Apr 20, 1986
    Action, Drama
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    NWA Battle of The Belts II
    0 %|Feb 14, 1986
    Action, Drama
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    AWA Super Clash
    79 %|Sep 25, 1985
    Action, Drama
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    AWA Wrestling For a Cure
    0 %|Aug 16, 1985
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    NWA The Great American Bash 1985
    0 %|Jul 16, 1985
    Action
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    AWA StarCage
    85 %|Apr 21, 1985
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    PWUSA Star Wars
    0 %|Feb 24, 1985
    actor
    NWA Battle of the Belts
    80 %|Feb 9, 1985
    Action, Drama
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    AWA Christmas Show 1984
    0 %|Dec 25, 1984
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    NWA Lords of The Ring
    0 %|Jun 30, 1984
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    NWA Night of Champions
    0 %|May 30, 1984

    Series

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    WWE This Is Awesome
    100 %|Jul 29, 2022
    Documentary
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    Dark Side of the Ring
    84.07 %|Apr 10, 2019
    Documentary
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    WWE Heat
    50 %|Aug 2, 1998
    Action & Adventure, Drama
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    WWE Raw
    67 %|Jan 11, 1993
    Reality
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    WWE Raw
    67 %|Jan 11, 1993
    Reality
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    WWE Raw
    67 %|Jan 11, 1993
    Reality
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    WWF Wrestling Challenge
    68 %|Sep 7, 1986
    Drama
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    WWF Superstars Of Wrestling
    80 %|Sep 6, 1986
    Family
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    Saturday Night's Main Event
    80 %|May 11, 1985
    Drama, Family