100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
8. Road Warriors | Doomsday Device
You won’t see an act like the Road Warriors ever again. That era of the business simply can’t exist; a general bland standard of “workrate” exists, and more to the point, the old culture can never be repeated. The juiced-up meathead madman fuelled by all sorts of everything can no longer “be” in 2024. For better, to be boring about it, the industry has changed irrevocably.
Hawk and Animal were unskilled, barely trained, reckless, and entitled. These were all synonyms of “f*cking awesome”.
Über-muscled killers who didn’t seem to care much about the safety of their opponents, it was cool enough when they simply hoisted puny jobbers above their heads and let them fall.
With their Doomsday Device finish, they added spectacle to what was already a perfect act.
Animal threw some hapless bastard on his shoulders as Hawk ascended to the top turnbuckle. Hawk then threw himself at the dude, who almost landed on their head because, by cruel design, there was nowhere else for him to go.
Even cooler than the name, the Doomsday Device was ripped off almost as often as the team itself.