Pro Wrestlers on How the Road Warriors Were in Real Life - Outside WWF & NWA
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- Hear how the Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal) were behind the scenes of WWF, WCW/NWA & AWA! Inside shoots from some of the biggest pro wrestlers in the world ➤ TitleMatchNetwo...
Timecodes:
00:01 Black Bart
04:12 Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal)
07:32 Dr D. David Schultz
08:34 "Dangerous" Dan Spivey (Sky Scrapers)
13:57 Greg "The Hammer" Valentine
15:12 Demolition (Ax, Smash aka Bill Eadie & Barry Darsow)
18:52 Stevie Ray (Harlem Heat)
20:18 Ragin' Bull Manny Fernandez
20:53 Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn, Sweet Stan Lane)
32:11 Road Warriors (in closing, RIP Hawk)
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The wrestling legends on this Road Warriors (aka Legion of Doom) feature include Black Bart, Hawk & Animal, Dr D. David Schultz, "Dangerous" Dan Spivey, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Demolition (Ax, Smash), Stevie Ray (Harlem Heat), Ragin' Bull Manny Fernandez & Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn, Sweet Stan Lane).
RIP to Road Warrior Hawk and all the great legends in this series who have since passed away.
Now find out how the Road Warriors were in real life, from the friends and co-workers who knew them best.
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Timecodes:
00:01 Black Bart
04:12 Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal)
07:32 Dr D. David Schultz
08:34 "Dangerous" Dan Spivey (Sky Scrapers)
13:57 Greg "The Hammer" Valentine
15:12 Demolition (Ax, Smash aka Bill Eadie & Barry Darsow)
18:52 Stevie Ray (Harlem Heat)
20:18 Ragin' Bull Manny Fernandez
20:53 Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn, Sweet Stan Lane)
32:11 Road Warriors (in closing, RIP Hawk)
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RIP Hawk and Animal! Best tag team ever in my book! Thanks for the memories and all the great wrestling over the years.
I remember Hawks catch phrase, " Awww What A Rush!"
RIP ANIMAL!!! THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU GAVE TO US FANS!!
Amen to that
RIP
Yep when Joe lived in Minnesota I used to work on his and Julie's and James and Jessica cars.
What both #Hawk an #Animal??
I didn't hear about Animal dying?? When?
There will never be a more bad ass tag team in wrestling than the Road Warriors. Thank you for the great memories. Animal and Hawk continue to rest in peace
Poor Bart was getting stressed just thinking about working with the Roadies.
I didn't know Stevie Ray was such a comedian. 😂😂🤦♂️
Road Warriors one of the best tag teams ever rest in peace guys and thank you
That energy drink Bart was referring to was called Ultimate Orange . That crap would light your ass up. It gave my brother an arythmia! FDA banned that shit lol. LOD, grown men wrestling. Me and my buddies loved them guys
thats what I thought. UO had ephedrine in it. that stuff is like a weaker amphetamine 😅
The Road Warriors and the Steiner's legit badasses!
Warriors weren't bad asses. They were roided up non workers who didn't like to sell .People hate on Goldberg and The Ultimate Warrior but love those guys? I'd admit Ultimate Warrior was unprofessional behind the scenes but was wasn't any worse in the ring. And the Road Warriors were backstage politicians who had to get their way. Just like Hogan,Flair,Michaels and everyone else you marks talk sh*t about.
@@cojack636you sound bitter 😂
Damn there was a whole big ass wood pile that came out of Minnesota!!
Actually, Hawk (Mike), Animal (Joe), and Smash from Demolition (Barry Darsow) were actually bouncers in a nightclub before rhey became wrestlers.
I'd like to hear from some of the jobbers that faced Hawk and Animal in the squash matches for Jim Crockett.
I would have been terrified if I knew I was bout to be clothes lined or slammed by Hawk and/or Animal.
I have no idea how much the enhancement talent was paid to take on the Road Warriors,but I hope it was worth it.
Hawk & Animal were awesome!!!
The Skyscrapers were legit awesome and scary. Too bad they were so short lived
I believe ALL these men have made a contribution to professional wrestling they should all be commended for it!
The Skyscrapers moniker was one of the best ever. Unique...never used before or after. And they were awesome.
The Road Warriors weren’t like the average geek down the road were they?!?
No! They were a little different, just a little.
All these guys was great
Im from the same neighborhood as Mike. I know a few things about stuff he did before becoming a wrestler. Legitimate street tough guy. Nice guy too. If you FU you FO if you get my drift. RIP to all of them.
Chris Jericho is morphing into Greg Valentine.
@John Drake The steak dinners and the BUBBLY doesn't help either.
Jericho is going through his Fat Elvis stage
He might have a thyroid problem.
@@tylowe78 It's called being an alcoholic who has given up on working out or even pretending to be an athlete at this point, instead just acting like he is the God of wrestling. His tits are getting as bad as Honky Tonk Mans
@@Will-h7h He's a cousin of mine.... we go thru our phases and then bounced back to top shape...Bill Irvine!!
I'm really digging Big Stevie Ray, even if he is a tad deluded, I give him props just for the sheer brazen way he comes over 👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧, don't get me wrong, Harlem Heat with Sherri were awesome, and both him and Booker were tough, but best tag team ever?, not sure on that Stevie, but you were good.
Guess we don't have to wonder where Hawk got OHHHH WHAT A RUSH from
Stevie rays interview......: not got a blown up ego whatsoever, so extremely humble, down to earth nice guy....🤦♂️😂🤣🤣
Harlem Heat was the shit and a WAY better tag team in literally every way than Road Warriors. But because they were usually heels, people always put over the LOD instead. Joke.
And you wonder how Hawk died from a heart attack.
Facts
Thanks for the video, TITLE MATCH WRESTLING
Stevie Ray talking a lot of crap lol... Harlem Heat were great but LoD in their prime were the much more fearsome duo. I mean c'mon, Harlem won the WCW title 10 times but it was against the likes of The American Males and Public Enemy...
They can't help how they were booked. And you must be pretty biased to take 1 look at Ron Simmons & Butch Reed/Stevie Ray's matches and to say they were not fearsome. They said that in the WCW, The Steiners used to rib everybody, but they would take 1 look at Ron Simmons and keep moving. And they never ribbed him or Stevie Ray. I mean, Stevie Ray shot on Vader, one of the most legit bad-asses in pro wrestling history. TBH WCW's tag team scene was iconic. You can't say who really were the best tag of that era, The Road Warriors, The Steiner Brothers, Harlem Heat, Arn and Tully, it'd be hard as hell to look at all of their body of work as a whole and say who was best.
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Ron Simmons is such a bad ass! Wasn’t a huge fan of his WWF gimmick. They should have just kept him as Ron and let him beat everyone’s ass. He deserved better
@@roninkraut6873 yeah he did. My Rpac, which was the lead recruit in Navy boot camp, was an ex Florida St. recruit and he was cut up & knew 4 martial arts disciplines and evidently he didn't make it because he was in Navy boot camp. So taking that into account, I KNOW Ron Simmons had to have been a 1 in a generation type athlete meaning the majority of people in the states couldn't hang with him physically.
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Don’t listen to these other idiots that watch these wrestling reviews and shit all over Stevie. I remember being a fan of Harlem Heat back in the 90’s and thinking they were awesome. Booker definitely had the charisma to succeed in his singles push but that shouldn’t diminish Stevie’s career one bit. Plus, I like listening to him now on his podcast. The dude is f’ing hilarious and usually tells it straight.
Stevie Ray sounded like a real braggart, jees.
They were light years behind Road Warriors.
Road Warriors would wipe the floor with Harlem heat
Both of them never had a real fight in their lives ....Hawk got beat up by 2 Cold Scorpio in 1995 Korea and 1992 he got beat up by John Parrella in Tokyo Racist Mutt
@@CP-kb1du yeah it's real easy to beat a man when he is sick . Fact is even Scot Norton said a Healthy Hawk would have wipe the Floor with 2 crap
Hell naw. they couldn't even wipe the floor with doom or the powers of pain
I can hear wrestling shoot stories all day long. I like hearing the politics behind some of the stories. Wrestling business was cut throat.
There was money to be made win or lose. Honky Tonk Man summed it up. He fought Hulk Hogan several times and lost every march but he didn't mind losing because it was the most money he made fighting one guy. The boss says you're going to lose you do it. If was all about the paycheck
I never enjoyed watching wrestling really, I just like the stories.
I love Stevie Ray. Tells it like it is. He doesn't disrespect anyone but he damn sure isn't going to down play himself for ANYBODY. I love it and he make a damn good case.
He's a delusional fool.
Damn, this was a very interesting interview coming from a bunch of outstanding athletes. Now, who said that wrestling was fake? The tension was very much real during these times in the ring.
Yupp. Al snow said many of the old school guys would have been in jail. That's the type of guys they were.
Here's a point for you; how safe would you feel in your workplace if all of your co workers are not only performing manoeuvres that have the potential to leave you a quadriplegic, but are also only a perceived insult away from flying into a 'roid rage at any given moment?
Fake is not a word that I would feel safe uttering in their presence. DR D certainly took exception to it. th-cam.com/video/GeJepvj5tn4/w-d-xo.html
Did Stevie Ray really call them the Woad Warriors!
My favorite tag teams
1 Road Warriors #WWF
2 Steiner Brothers #WCW
3 Harlem Heat #WCW
4 Hollywood Blondes #WCW
5 The Nasty Boys #WWF
6 Doom #WCW
7 Skyscrapers #WCW
1 Road Warriors WCW
2 The Von Erich’s WCCW
3 Rock and Roll Express NWA
4 The Dudley’s. WWE
5 The Steiner Brothers WCW
6 Midnight Express NWA
Twin Towers was WWF mid 1980s when Dan Spivey and Barry Windham were WWF tag team champs, Skyscrapers with Dan teamed with Mark (Undertaker) Calloway and Sid Vicious were never in the WWF. That's how you know the difference.
People often forget their predecessors. Stevie Ray? Bookter T? They wouldn't be where they are without LOD. And LOD wouldn't be where they are without Dick the Bruiser, Ole Anderson, Larry the Axe, Superstar, etc. Stevie Ray in his prime couldn't hold a candle Animal or Hawk in their prime. Watch the old matches of Harlem Heat. Stevie did the power moves, Booker T did the spinaroony. 'Nuff said.
Agreed. Respecting your elders and the ones that paved the way for your success seems to be a big problem these days.
AWA they were local favorites! Like A pair of Goldbergs! Came in....Kicked Ass! All power moves...some wrestling. However..in tag team! Very fluid....ending many matches! By each doing a overhead press of there opponents....slamming them at the same time! Everybody wanted to see them take on the Free Birds! They were arrogant...but hard to deal with! Powerful! Very Powerful! But we’re very nice to us fans! Milkman Muligan. AWA wrestler Jake the milkman! Only match he ever won....was an unexpected curl up and pin of.......Bobby Henan! The Crowd went NUTS! Always the punching bag for all up and coming wrestlers! It was a memorable WIN!
Road warriors are very scary they would probably scare the💩out of my dog too💪
Next to HULK HOGAN i say THE ROAD WARRIORS got the loudest crowd pop ( CHEERS ) I have ever seen and i saw all the legends but nobody beat HOGANS cheers for how loud
Dr. D David Shultz
His legacy is smacking the tar out of John Stossel
It's a strange legacy for a pro wrestler
So this whole video was basically nothing about how they were outside the ring lol
Yeah pretty much cept Hawk liked to party hard and well, it's what took his life
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I remember first time i saw road wRriors. They threw men around like sacks of rice. Hard to explIn the mystique of their presence.
Listening to Stevie Ray trying to pronounce words is hilarious!
Animal dead? 😳😢
Never understood how anyone could compare Demolition to LOD. They sound delusional talking about how they were bigger than the Road Warriors.
Size wise they were. And that's what they were talking about.
@Scott Grudziadz whatever that means....lol. Doesn't change the fact they were bigger guys.
stevie ray is high
F the Harlem Heat
Lol Stevie ray lost his mind
No disrespect toward Harlem Heat because they were very good but Stevie Rays comments make him look delutional lol
There will never everrrrrrrrrrrrrrr be a tag team like the road warriors! God Bless them!!!!!!!
Stevie Ray sounds like a bitter old man.
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Funny how Stevie Ray talks about how good Harlem Heat was yet I don't recall Vince Asking Harlem Heat to come wrestle for him . I do recall Vince signing the Road Warriors to Wrestle for him. I do reall him Vince signing Booker T . But I don't Recall Vince asking that NWO black and white Jobber Stevie Ray to Wrestle for him
Harlem Heat waaaaay better than Road Warriors.
Yeah, he sounds like a work.
Sounds like he needs to go get his speech impediment fixed.
R.I.P HAWK & ANIMAL GREATEST TAG-TEAM OF ALL TIME....
Amen brother 😎
Yes sir, and there ain't even a close second
So basically to sum it up... they were stiff. They beat the poop out of everyone so guys didn't want to wrestle with them. And they were nice guys.
Still to me... best team ever!
Apparently you didn’t listen. They were stiff AND they always tried to put themselves over as stronger than everyone, even guys bigger than them. Even in WWF, they’d take piledrivers from Bulldog and others and pop right up. As one of these dudes said, “if Andre the Giant can sell, anyone can sell” and the LOD never learned that lesson. They were shitty promos too. All they had was costumes and ahhh what a rush bc they were fucked up on steroids and amphetamines. Lmao joke of a tag team.
@@augustushaynes1311 as far as promos... you're way off. Everything else is probably true... but not any different than most of the guys back then. STILL the best team ever!
When you were 9 years old none of that was known or mattered, LOD were the only tag team back then in my 9 year old eyes
They had great matches against the Steiner Brothers, good matches against the Warlord/Barbarian, Doom and Demolition but were so-so versus the Midnight Express, Rock-n-Roll Express and other smaller but higher skilled teams. Honestly I don’t remember them wrestling Harlem Heat.
They dominated all jobbers and other just put together teams.
RIP Hawk & Animal. One of my favorite tag teams.
God bless all these guys and everyone who chooses this career. Not an easy way to make a living.
Surprised that they didn't talk to Nikita Koloff about this, he was very close to them and wrestled them quite a bit.
Does Stevie Ray really believe they were better than the Warriors?? Misguided, indeed
There's a reason Booker has singles championships and Stevie has...a slap jack.
Why can't he believe that
Stevie Rey. Is a Goof !!!
Lots of teams wer better than the road Warriors. Being a better wrestler and being more over aren't the same
Harlem Who? Lmfao
Stevie Ray sounded like he was cutting a promo rather then having a shoot interview 😂
Best quote ever by Bill Eadie; “If Andre the Giant can sell, ANYONE can sell!”..
Stevie Ray sounds like he wants Harlem Heat to have the heavy rep The Road Warriors had
Yeah he wishes 😂
Would have been interesting to hear from Doom or The Steiners.
The Fabulous Ones was the best part of video. Funny stories!
I'm so old that I remember as a kid seeing the Road Warriors in the old Virn Ganya's AWA with the free birds, baron von rashkie and those guys
Stevie Ray is living on another planet.
How do you figure? When did you start watching and have you ever seen prime Harlem Heat?
@@augustushaynes1311I have and they don’t touch prime Warriors
@@rtricharlmao road warriors were fucking awful and as soon as the steiners, doom and the Samoans came around it showed since they couldn’t bully those teams
@@Cream-2128which samoans? Wild samoans were befor LOD came along and jimmy and jay come on lmfao steiners didnt finish careers as tag team doom were cheap knockoffs
@@mauriceb3135 I think it was the Samoan Swat Team.
Thanks guys for the great content, l love listening to these legends talk about the glory days.
There wasn't a single tag team history that were as big as draw as the Road Warriors. Better typing certainly pat patterson or ray stevens
Black Bart’s face when he’s trying to be hawk 😭😭🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Remember when I got thier action figures for Christmas. Happiest day ever!
Animal: Tell em Hawk! Hawk: Welllllll!
Oh gawd. Imagine you owe someone money and the road warriors come to collect....
Is it just me or does Stevie Ray have a chip on his shoulder? Seemed like the very question offended him.
Jealous. Maybe just being competitive.
I was in Japan when Danny would come in. 1987/1991. US NAVY Veteran, See him and the guys walking downtown Yokohama and Toyko the coolest.
I don't think enough credit is given to the jobbers... imagine seeing these two running out of the back to the ring at full speed. I'd like to think I'm not a coward but I can see myself deserting my partner running out the arena to see if I can get my job back at the Car wash
95 Harlem Heat vs 86 Road Warriors
My favorite all time, no other close in my mind. Glad I saw them live too
wow im old , i remember these guys when they was young ... dudes .. hehe what an era
I grew up idolizing the Road Warriors and between them and The Incredible Hulk (Lou Ferrigno) I got into the gym in middle school and never left. Ended up surprisingly being a 6’3 270 lb Marine. Funny how influential some are in our youth.
There were a lot of wrestlers who seemed to confuse being tough with doing business. There was also a division between the guys that made their money as workers who did jobs, and those that made their money brawling and going over every night, be it pinfall or dq.
True...HOW could you see beating them, seriously?!
I met Road Warrior Animal and Hacksaw Jim Duggan at a GNC promotion once. I'm a big dude but I was small compared to them. I talked to them for about 5 minutes, both cool and down to earth guys.
I was there too, memories dude, at the Manhattan 34th street , I also met Mr perfect
Met Duggan and Animal at SC Comicon great guys
@Metropcs Metropcs What about Leapin' Lanny Paffo, King Kong Bundy, Hacksaw Jim Duggan. the Junkyard dog, Black Jack Mulligan, the Mulkey brothers, the masked assassins, the Great Kabuki, Gordon Solie, Kendo Nagasaki, drinking beer with Chief Wahoo McDaniels, mowing Dusty Rhodes lawn
@Allen Wilson I meant weight-wise. I'm 6'2" and 220. These guys were 280, 290.
@@MrNYCman530 were they taller than you? That's amazing that you got to meet them😊
Seems like more pro wrestlers came out of Minnesota than any other state.
Stevie Ray is crazier than hell! If he had tried to bench 500 pounds, he'd blow out every gasket he had.
Haha. He just finished that sentence when I read ur comment. Funny when that happens. Stevie Ray sounded like he was laying down a promo. Haha good stuff.
I mean...he didn't try to sell it like Booker could. Stevie was a big guy...
Booker T said Road Warriors were the greatest. Stevie Ray is crazy. Haha
Harlem Heat never got a Road Warriors pop. And Stevie Ray was pretty rough to watch. Truth is Harlem Heat was a good team but they weren't an all time team. As far as Manny Fernandez goes, that guy is a phony. Nothing he says means anything.
Harlem Heat was a good tag team..but when comparing how great it depends on your point of view. Road Warriors were the bigger team, but being a young black kid, it was amazing to see a serious, GOOD, black tag team that didn't lose all the time. Both teams were great, but for different reasons. But as for legacy, LOD has that hands down.
Nice shout out at the end by Mike and Joe to the Enhancement talent that actually LOVED working with them and helped put them over. Guys like The Mulkeys have to be honored to hear the greatest Tag Team that ever wrestled give them respect.
So what was the stuff that they were drinking backstage? Did it have cocaine or something in it?
@@robaxl3088my guess is, it was a workout supplement with ephedrine in it
All of these wrestlers I grew up watching in the 80:s and 90's. Dusty Rhodes Lex Luger Steiner's man that list goes and forever. And that was just WCW. AWA, WWF/WWE and NWA I started watching soon after. When they all share their stories and experiences in videos of shoots about careers and experiences with other wrestlers it's informing. You hear different versions from different wrestlers. Brings back wonderful memories of the good ole wrestling memories.
When there music hit and you heard "oh what a rush" would give me chills
Im old school straight up ironman live now that was a rush
I love Dan Spivey segment....real honesty.
Spivey's a legit tough sumbitch
I remember that when hawk an animal came to the AWA...
Jeez..
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Animal killed me when he mentioned Ronnie Garvin. When The Road Warriors remember how Stiff you worked 😂
Almost every wrestler who was good elsewhere were made to look silly by Vince once they came to WWF WWE
One Man Gang, New Zealanders, Terry Taylor, Ron Garvin, Mike Rotundo...I know if I think hard enough I can surely come up with more.
You are absolutely RIGHT! I couldn’t agree with you more!
Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Koko B Ware, Lex Lugar... still thinking
@@ANTAGONISTKING Waylon Mercy?? The Goon, Greg Valentine when the put him in rhythm and blues with The Honky Tonk Man. Shit how can we forget S.C.S.A as the Ringmaster. Giant Gonzalez with that stupid Big Foot suit on.
@@ANTAGONISTKING i didn't mind O.M.G. as Akeem though
Stevie ray is crazy 😂😂
Black Bart obviously chews tobacco
Stevie Ray gimme a break lol
I loved Booker T he wrestled great and he did great interviews, well deserving to be in The Hall Of Fame in wrestling.
Thank you Joe and Mike, back together in peace
Harlem Heat was a great tag team and Stevie should think that, it was his team. BUT....no way they were one of the best ever. I'd still go with LOD, Demolition, DOOM, RNR Express, Hart Foundation over HH. Just my opinion of course.
100% In agreement!! I didn't know much about H.H. but this guy is full of himself thinking that. How long were they together? You can hear the jealousy & bitterness in his voice.
Harlem Heat was one of the greatest tag teams of all time. Don't let racism blind you
Midnight express, British bulldogs, the rockers, ect the list goes on, Harlem heat was decent, but definitely not top shelf
It's almost erie and sad to hear Hawk and Animal talking about how they wanted to retire. It's kind of a sad reality when you think a few years later, Hawk is dead because of drugs and Animal passes away abruptly of God only knows what. You often think what could have been had Hawk cleaned up his life sooner and LOD would have gone on to many great things.
I think Hawk and Animal both died prematurely due to the use of steroids. Any wrestler or or muscled athlete you see dying young from heart attack more than likely died due to an enlarged heart from steroids.
The Fabulous ones I'm not familiar with I've got to check out their matches they seem like such sweet guys
Did u find any of their stuff??
They were great
(Good old Skinner)
I watched a clip on here few weeks ago of behind the scenes of a NWA show from 1988/89.. Hawk was completely off his Rocker... Luger looked worn out just watching Hawk..... Bet Road Warriors had some stories to tell... i believe they first met as Nightclub doormen
Rest in peace thanks for the memories
Road warriors will live forever in the hearts the fans
They changed the complexity of wrestling definitely!!! Put the stamp on their legacy by creating a different style and mood. The energy was ridiculous when they entered the wrestling world .