Mike Hegstrand
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
153
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-09-12
Day of death
2003-10-19 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mike Hegstrand
Biography
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.
Known For
Raw
Raw
Raw
WWF Wrestling Challenge
WWF Superstars
Saturday Night's Main Event
Saturday Night's Main Event
WWE Heat
Road Warriors: The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History
Dark Side of the Ring
NWA Clash of The Champions IV: Season's Beatings
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
NWA Clash of The Champions V: St. Valentine's Massacre
WWE Over the Edge: In Your House
WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
NWA Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
Mid-South Wrestling
WWE Survivor Series 1997
WWE Old School
NWA Clash of The Champions VI: Ragin' Cajun
WWE World Tour 1992
WWE Ground Zero: In Your House
NWA The Great American Bash '86: Livin' in the Promise Land
WWE Hall of Fame 2011
WWE UK Rampage '92
NWA Clash of The Champions VIII: Fall Brawl '89
Pro Wrestling USA Star Wars: December 1984
AWA StarCage
NWA Starrcade 1988
WWE: Road Warriors - The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History
NWA Starrcade 1986
WCW Halloween Havoc 1989
WWE SummerSlam 1992
NWA Grandslam
WCW Starrcade 1989
NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea
WWE WrestleMania 13
WWE SummerSlam 1997
WWE This Is Awesome
NWA Clash of the Champions
WWE Mayhem in Manchester
WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV
NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Charlotte
NWA Bunkhouse Stampede
NWA The Last Battle of Atlanta
WWE Royal Rumble 1998
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
NJPW Battle Formation '96
WWE Battle Royal at the Albert Hall
NWA World Championship Wrestling
WWE One Night Only
The First Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
The Third Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
WWE SuperTape: Volume 5
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1991
PWUSA Star Wars
WWE Judgment Day: In Your House
SMW Night of The Legends
WWE WrestleFest '91
WCW Starrcade 1993
WCW Slamboree 1996
GCW at The Omni (December '83)
NWA Night of Champions
NWA Lords of The Ring
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.1
The Second Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
WCW Clash of the Champions XXV
NWA WrestleWar 1989
WWE King of the Ring 1997
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1995
WWE In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
NJPW Hyper Battle 1993 - Day 11
AWA Wrestling For a Cure
ECW November to Remember 1993
WCW WrestleWar 1989
AWA Christmas Show 1984
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2
WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches
NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Greensboro
AWA: WrestleRock '86
WCW Battle Bowl
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
NWA Clash of The Champions IX: New York Knockout
AWA Super Clash
NWA The Great American Bash 1989
NWA Battle of the Belts III
NWA Live: March 18, 1989
Battlarts Battle Fiction
WWE SuperTape: Volume 4
PNW 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza
PNW Owen Family Super Extravaganza
NWA Battle of The Belts II
NWA Super Towns on The SuperStation
NWA The Great American Bash '87: War Games
NWA Chi-Town Rumble
WWE Survivor Series Showdown '90
NWA The Great American Bash 1988
WCW Arena Shows
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
WCW Capital Combat: Return of RoboCop
WWE D-Generation X: In Your House
NWA Starrcade 1987
AWF Warriors of Wrestling
WWE UK Rampage
WWE Royal Rumble 1991
WWE The Main Event V
Legends Never Die
WWE WrestleMania VII
WCW Halloween Havoc 1995
WWE WrestleMania XIV
Power Pro Wrestling
WWE WrestleMania VIII
NWA Battle of the Belts
WWE Badd Blood: In Your House
WCW WrestleWar 1990
WWE SummerSlam 1991
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
WCW World War 3 1995
2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars
WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches
WWE Survivor Series 1991
WWE SummerSlam 1990
WWE Survivor Series 1990
WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection
WCW Slamboree 1995
The Monday Night War - WWE Raw vs. WCW Nitro
WWE Invasion '92
AWA/NWA Night of Champions II
WCW Uncensored 1996
Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain
Best Of Raw • Volume Four
WWE SuperTape: Volume 3
WWE: The Best Of In Your House
WWE Bashed in the USA
WCW SuperBrawl VI
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91
WCW'S Greatest Pay-Per-View Matches Volume 1
The Very Best of Monday Nitro: Volume 2
WWE WrestleFest '92
WWE Rampage '92
NWA Superstars on The SuperStation
NJPW Battle Zone Space II
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1993
TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments
SWS WrestleFest
NWA The Great American Bash 1985
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash
