WWE’s 10 Worst Choke Artists
5. Legion Of Doom
Older talent should, in some good faith, have no problem putting over younger stars as their career ships pass in the night. Ignoring the abuse Vince McMahon heaped on the phrase during his December 1997 Bret Hart hatchet job, it's a 'time-honoured tradition' in the industry that effectively keeps the wheels greased and the wrestling machine moving.
It can even be a mutually rewarding experience - many may not have earned a key break without an experienced foe standing aside, or ushering them upwards with all they'd learned. As The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal had encountered this altruism early in their run. Demolishing jobbers and headliners alike, their limited-but-impressive beatings established them as the team to beat, but when it actually came time to do such a thing a decade later, the Legion Of Doom seemed a little less keen to return the favour.
Victims of Vince Russo's pen and an aggressive youth movement in a company and business passing them by, the former Chicago monsters were reduced to fossilised versions of themselves in record time.
Looking only equal to lousy midcard units like The Godwinns and Diciples of Apocolypse, the pair were undone once and for all by the New Age Outlaws. Begrudgingly establishing Road Dogg and Billy Gunn as the generations new tag supremos, Hawk and Animal lost their tag titles, their hair, their dignity, their rematches and ultimately their fanbase, with the new DXers firm favourites by the time the duos had their last matches together in June 1998.