10 Secret Genius Details Behind Wrestler Entrances

7. The Road Warriors Pick The Perfect Theme

Malakai Black
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The entrance is simple: two massive muscle monsters packaged as apocalyptic warlords rush to the ring, with very little sense of ceremony, en route to ripping two pale dorks to shreds.

The act was a total sensation at its '80s peak. It was irresistibly of the time. Hawk and Animal looked like they had parachuted into the arena not from the Mad Max movie set, but the setting. With so much tedious discourse of realism and flips and the like infesting this online bubble, the point of what got wrestling over in the 1980s gets lost now: those men grew brand new massive artificially-enhanced bodies, and none wore them with the same badass hellcat aura as the Road Warriors.

Any chugging metal riff would have sufficed, really, but the Warriors picked the best one: Black Sabbath's Iron Man.

The opening dirge of Tony Iommi's gut-wrenching riff is the pure sound of slow dread encroaching - precisely what Ham and his partner Egger would feel at the prospect of getting dropped haphazardly on their poor, poor necks.

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