Road Warrior Hawk

Quick Facts

Full Name	Road Warrior Hawk
Occupation	Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Jan 26, 1957(1957-01-26)
Age	67
Date Of Death	2003-10-19
Birthplace	Saint Paul
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Capricorn

Road Warrior Hawk Biography

Road Warrior Hawk is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on January 26, 1957 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Professional is best known for his time as a member the famed tag team The Road Warriors. In October 2003, he died unexpectedly from a heart attack.

His partnership with He was famous for his partnership with Joe Laurinaitis, a.k.a. Road Warrior Animal. was what made him famous. Road Warrior Animal.

While living in Minneapolis, Hegstrand attended Patrick Henry High School where he graduated in 1976. After high school, he had various odd jobs to make ends meet such as a butcher. An imposing figure due to his size and love of power lifting, he was a very effective bouncer. It was while working as a bouncer at Gramma B’s in the Twin Cities that he caught the eye of Eddie Sharkey, a well known wrestling trainer. Sharkey thought that Hegstrand, along with Joe Laurinaitis, Rick Rood and Barry Darsow could make it big in professional wrestling.

Hegstrand started his career as part of the Traveling All-Stars. He was billed as “Crusher Von Haig” and wrestled in Vancouver. Hawk soon grew weary of the road and would become homesick. He traveled back home with another Sharkey trainee, Rick Rude. In 1983 fate struck these two again. Animal’s partner for the night would find himself in legal trouble. Needing a quick replacement, Ole Anderson gave Hawk a call. They would be paired together again, this time as tag team partners. Anderson gave them the name the Road Warriors. Neither man knew at the time that they would make wrestling history that day.

Michael Hegstrand is his real name. His wife Dale is his survivor.

Road Warrior Hawk Net Worth

Road Warrior Hawk is one of the richest Wrestler from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Road Warrior Hawk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Patrick Henry High school, he worked as a butcher.

He and Road Warrior Animal (the other half of The Road Warriors), were both inducted into The WWE Hall of Fame in 2011 after his death.

Michael Hegstrand (January 26, 1957 – October 19, 2003) 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 WWF), 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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Road Warrior Hawk height 6 ft 3 in Road weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Road Warrior Hawk Dating?

According to our records, Road Warrior Hawk married to Dale Watts , Judy Pendzimas. As of December 1, 2023, Road Warrior Hawk’s is not dating anyone.

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In August 1993 Hawk made sporadic appearances in World Championship Wrestling as a mystery partner of Dustin Rhodes and later as a replacement partner when Davey Boy Smith left the promotion but nothing permanent ever came of it, and Hawk left after Starrcade in December 1993. In May 1995, he reappeared in WCW. In July 1995, he helped Sting in a feud against Meng and Kurasawa, but a proposed singles feud with Kurasawa fell through due to an arm injury (in kayfabe Kurasawa broke Hawk’s arm using a cross armbreaker, to let Hawk rest). Hawk returned in January 1996, but this time, he also brought Animal back with him as his back had finally recovered enough for him to return to active competition. During that time, Sting and Lex Luger had won the WCW World Tag Team Championship and the Warriors challenged them, to no success. The rise of the New World Order precluded further challenges, and they headed back to the WWF.

Facts & Trivia

Road Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Road Warrior Hawk celebrates birthday on January 26 of every year.

After leaving WCW they returned to the WWF where the Legion of Doom took part in the feud between ”Stone Cold” Steve Austin and the Hart Foundation, siding with Austin. The Legion of Doom also became 2 time tag-team champions on October 7, 1997 when they defeated The Godwinns. In November 1997 the Legion of Doom faced the newly formed New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) and shockingly lost the titles to the upstart team.

What happened to hawk from the Road Warriors?

Road Warrior Hawk, whose real name was Michael Hegstrand, died of a heart attack in 2003.

Which road warrior was Hawk?

Road Warrior Hawk
Debut| 1983

Was Road Warrior Hawk an alcoholic?

In their last run in WWE, which coincided with the Attitude Era, the real-life issues of Road Warrior Hawk, notably his alcoholism issues , were shown on WWE TV in a storyline.

How old is Road Warrior Hawk?

46 years (1957–2003)

Who died Hawk or animal?

This would be the last time the two would pair together as Hawk died a few months later in October. Animal made a return to WWE on the July 14 episode of SmackDown! in 2005, where he was challenged by the then-WWE Tag Team Champions MNM to a title match at The Great American Bash.