10 Coolest Wrestlers Of All Time
9. The Road Warriors
The Road Warriors were a total revelation in the 1980s; much like the punk rock movement, theirs was an outlaw act ripping to shreds cherished institutions and old notions of technical mat wrestling slogs. They were massively limited in the ring, but had the presence of mind to perfect three chords.
Their killer, apocalyptic, Mad Max-inspired look promised the end of days for their opponents. Their ominous and heavy theme, Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man', evoked terror. And, with their brutally effective power-based offence - a repertoire made more deadly by its clumsy execution - Hawk and Animal presented themselves as utter warlords to an audience who readily accepted them as such.
They learned a fourth chord, too; Hawk's infamous and polarising trademark spot saw him no-sell one of the most protected moves ever in the piledriver. The instant unfazed brush-off generated a major reaction; moves were taken very seriously in Hawk's heyday, and he became a humungous badass because of it.
The stupidly rapid clip at which Hawk and Animal wrestled only added to their cool aura; just like that, they were gone - an unmissable act lionised through their scarcity.