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Road Warrior Animal
Class of 2011
Ring names
Road Warrior Animal
Animal
Animal Warrior
Road Warrior
Warrior Animal
Joe Lauren
Height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Born
September 12, 1960(1960-09-12)
Died
September 23, 2020 (aged 60)
Early life[]
Joe Laurinaitis grew up in Minnesota, having to work for a living from a very early age. Because of his size and love of power lifting, Joe was an imposing figure and thus a very effective bouncer. He worked as a bouncer at Grandma B's in the Twin Cities where he caught the eye of Eddie Sharkey, a well known wrestling trainer. Sharkey thought that Joe along with Mike Hegstrand, Richard Rood, and Barry Darsow could make it big in professional wrestling. He believed in them so much that he trained all four of them personally.
Professional wrestling career[]
Early years (1982–1983)[]
Joe made his debut in November 1982, competing as The Road Warrior using a biker gimmick. After only a few matches as a singles competitor, Joe's career
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Road Warriors
Professional wrestling tag team
This article is about the professional wrestling team. For other uses, see Road Warriors (disambiguation).
"The Hell Raisers" redirects here. For other uses, see Hellraiser (disambiguation).
Professional wrestling stable
The Road Warriors, also known as the Legion of Doom, were a professional wrestlingtag team originally composed of Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand) and Road Warrior Animal (Joseph Laurinaitis).[1] They performed under the name "The Road Warriors" in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the name "Legion of Doom" (LOD) in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Under either name, their gimmick was the same – two imposing wrestlers in face paint. For brief periods, other wrestlers were added as stand-in partners for both men. In Japan in the 1990s, "Power Warrior" Kensuke Sasaki often teamed with Hawk and Animal, separately and together, while in WWE were joined by Droz in the 1990s and Heidenreich in the 2000s. The team also had three managers: Sunny in the 1990s, Christy Hemme in the 2000s, and Paul Ellering, the manager associated with the original team.
Hawk and Animal were known for their impressive ph