Road Warrior Hawk | |
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Birth name | Michael James Hegstrand[1] |
Born | [2] Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. | January 26, 1957
Died | October 19, 2003 Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, U.S. | (aged 46)
Cause of death | Heart attack |
Spouse(s) | Judy Pendzimas
(m. 1986; div. 1991)Dale Watts (m. 1998) |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Crusher Von Haig Hawk Hawk Warrior Road Warrior Hawk |
Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[3] |
Billed weight | 275 lb (125 kg)[3] |
Billed from | Chicago, Illinois |
Trained by | Eddie Sharkey[3] |
Debut | 1983[3] |
Michael James Hegstrand (January 26, 1957 – October 19, 2003) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors (or the "Legion of Doom"), with Road Warrior Animal. Outside of the Road Warriors, Hawk was a sporadic challenger for world heavyweight championships on pay-per-view from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He headlined the inaugural 1993 edition of Extreme Championship Wrestling's premier annual event, November to Remember.[4]