10 Wrestlers Who Saw WWE As A Vacation
2. Hawk
1992's bizarre summer of discontent is now available to view in the best possible quality thanks to WWE Network's bulk Superstars upload, but one of the saddest recurring theme throughout is the faux-rise and terminal fall of the Legion Of Doom. Though not as pronounced as his horrific 1998-99 run as dinosauric drug-addled buffoon, Hawk's negligible alienation due to their cartoonish reimagining is quite the slog.
The lions of late-1990 were lambs two years on, having been chewed up and spat out by the McMahon machine as gimmicks over personas. Sh*t-kicking giants no more, the prideful pair were robbed of the Tag Team Titles and gifted a ventriloquist's dummy as makegood. Hawk, feeling particularly bantered off by the whole thing, decided to work down to the new expectations.
A body on the beach and a head in the clouds, Hawk was a walking worst case scenario, often spotted chilling on turnbuckles before hot tags or simply sleepwalking through matches that were lost without the trademark physical intensity. Dogging it in jobber matches and allegedly spending much of the year in a willingly altered state before his post-SummerSlam 1992 departure, even his relationship with Animal was partially severed by his near-the-knuckle behaviour and temperament.