MANIAC Wrestlers That Will Totally F*** YOU UP! ?

10. The Road Warriors

The Road Warriors were an everything-all-at-once-act that 1980s wrestling readily rewarded.

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Hawk and Animal were absolutely massive, wrestled and won like massive guys would, and looked like real-life movie characters thanks to the paint, spikes and haircuts that defined their time in the spotlight as much as any individual match or title.

To outsiders or lapsed fans, their iconography is pro wrestling in all its preposterous and bombastic glory. Cartoonish in just about any other field, the luminosity of their look became a feature rather than a bug in pro wrestling, summed up beautifully by Hawk's rasping promos promising psychotic and disgusting mutilation of their hapless foes en route to a referee-mandated one-two-three.

Rewatching their early work will find jobbers getting just about as hurt as they looked, and even removed from their prime, the pair had an undeniable aura. WrestleMania 13's Chicago Street Fight had no right to be as entertaining as it was, but there was a magic to seeing the Legion Of Doom f*ck people up in the one company they'd previously never been permitted to.

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