10 Brilliant Wrestling Moments Clearly Inspired By Iconic Movies
9. Road Warriors/Legion Of Doom - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
From the shoulder pads, face paint, and spiky hair to the tag team name of Road Warriors itself, there was no denying Animal and Hawk based a substantial amount of their signature look on Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Their style, however, helped them capture over 20 tag team championships and be nominated as the tag team of the year on several occasions.
Borrowing their appearance from lesser-known villain Wez, the Road Warriors embodied the movie's entire theme, something of a rarer sight in professional wrestling during the 1980s. At the time, Mad Max 2 was just popular enough for them to get away with stealing the aesthetics, whereas something more mainstream may not have worked out so well.
Although lifted from Hollywood, the Mad Max look was heavily associated with the tag team. When other tag teams have imitated the iconic regalia, the results have been 50-50 at best (But I'm a genetic frea-never mind). Somehow Demolition got away with it, to a degree, whereas things didn't work out so well for The Ascension. Perhaps it was because Demolition mimicked another Mad Max character (Lord Humongous) rather than copy a tag team's look altogether.