Mike Hegstrand
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
148
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 Superstars
WWF Wrestling Challenge
WWE Heat
Saturday Night's Main Event
Saturday Night's Main Event
NWA The Great American Bash '86: Livin' in the Promise Land
Dark Side of the Ring
Mid-South Wrestling
Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows
AWA Wrestling For a Cure
WWE Fully Loaded: In Your House
WWE Over the Edge: In Your House
NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Charlotte
WWE Unforgiven: In Your House
PNW 60th Anniversary Wrestling Extravaganza
WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House
WWE Judgment Day: In Your House
The First Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
WWE Old School
WWE Survivor Series 1997
WWE SummerSlam 1997
WWE In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1991
NWA Night of Champions
WWE WrestleFest '91
WWE This Is Awesome
NWA Lords of The Ring
NWA Clash of the Champions
NWA Clash of The Champions V: St. Valentine's Massacre
Pro Wrestling USA Star Wars: December 1984
NWA Live: March 18, 1989
WWE: The Best Of In Your House
WCW Slamboree 1996
AWA StarCage
WWE Royal Rumble 1998
The Second Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
SMW Night of The Legends
WCW Halloween Havoc '89
NWA Starrcade '88: True Gritt
AWA Super Clash
NWA WrestleWar 1989
WWE One Night Only
NWA Starrcade '86: The Night of The Sky-Walkers
WWE WrestleMania 13
WCW Starrcade 1993
NWA Clash of The Champions IX: New York Knockout
NWA Clash of The Champions VIII: Fall Brawl '89
WCW Battle Bowl
WCW World War 3 1995
AWA: WrestleRock '86
WWE King of the Ring 1997
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2
NWA Clash of The Champions IV: Season's Beatings
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
ECW November to Remember 1993
WCW'S Greatest Pay-Per-View Matches Volume 1
WWE U.K. Rampage Tour '92: Munich
NWA The Great American Bash 1985
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
WCW Clash of the Champions XXV
The Third Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
WWE Mayhem in Manchester
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1993
WCW Starrcade '89: Future Shock
WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV
WWE SuperTape vol. 3
WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash
GCW at The Omni (December '83)
NJPW Hyper Battle 1993 - Day 11
NJPW Battle Formation '96
NWA Battle of the Belts III
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 1995
WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches
NWA Clash of The Champions VI: Ragin' Cajun
WWE Ground Zero: In Your House
Battlarts Battle Fiction
NWA The Great American Bash '89: The Glory Days
NWA Super Towns on The SuperStation
NWA WrestleWar '89: The Music City Showdown
WWE: Road Warriors - The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History
Road Warriors: The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History
PWUSA Star Wars
The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol.1
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea
AWF Warriors of Wrestling
WWE Badd Blood: In Your House
NWA The Last Battle of Atlanta
NWA Battle of The Belts II
NWA The Great American Bash '87: War Games
NWA Grandslam
NWA Clash of The Champions X: Texas Shootout
NWA Chi-Town Rumble
WWE Battle Royal at the Albert Hall
NWA Superstars on The SuperStation
PNW Owen Family Super Extravaganza
WWE D-Generation X: In Your House
Power Pro Wrestling
Best Of Raw • Volume Four
WWE UK Rampage
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
WWE Survivor Series Showdown '90
WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches
WWE SummerSlam 1990
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
WWE WrestleMania XIV
SWS WrestleFest
WWE Survivor Series 1991
NWA Battle of the Belts
Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
WWE WrestleFest '92
WWE Survivor Series 1990
The Monday Night War - WWE Raw vs. WCW Nitro
WCW Capital Combat: The Return of RoboCop
WWE SummerSlam 1992
WCW Halloween Havoc 1995
WWE WrestleMania VII
WWE SuperTape vol. 4
WWE Royal Rumble 1991
WWE WrestleMania VIII
The Very Best of Monday Nitro: Volume 2
WWE Rampage '92
NJPW Battle Zone Space II
WWF Bashed in the USA
WWE SummerSlam 1991
TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments
AWA Christmas Show 1984
WCW SuperBrawl VI
2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars
Legends Never Die
WCW Slamboree 1995
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91
WWF SuperTape '92
WWE Hall of Fame 2011
WWE The Main Event V
NWA Bunkhouse Stampede
WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection
WCW Uncensored 1996
NWA WrestleWar '90: Wild Thing
NWA Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat!
NWA The Great American Bash '88: The Price for Freedom
WWE Invasion '92
AWA/NWA Night of Champions II
NWA The Great American Bash '86 Tour: Greensboro
