The Road Warriors Part 2: WWE Run, Decline & Legacy | Hawk, Animal & The End Of An Era - Episode 112

About this episode

This episode explores the decline and legacy of the Road Warriors in professional wrestling.

Part two of our Road Warriors series is less about wins and losses and more about what happens as the roar fades. After reaching one of the highest peaks in pro wrestling, LOD goes through tough times, weird times and weirder times. This is what happens when legends collide with addiction, corporate politics, ego, changing eras, and their own mortality. This episode is about legacy. About partnership. About how hard it is to separate the unit from the individuals. And about how two men who once felt larger than life were still human underneath the paint. IMPORTANT LINKS: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/10bellpod⁠⁠⁠ Reddit: ⁠⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/10BellPod⁠⁠ Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/10BellPod⁠⁠⁠⁠ ProWrestling Tees: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/related/10bellpod.html⁠⁠⁠⁠ PayPal Donation - ⁠⁠9BHDW7Y2KMBTY⁠⁠ Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/64GdAqEG⁠ EPISODE NOTES This episode covers the hardest years of the Road Warriors’ story. After Hawk’s substance abuse spirals and Animal’s devastating back injury, the team fractures, reunites in Japan, survives corporate WCW, and then walks into the Attitude Era meat grinder. The lens here is simple: what happens…

Topics covered

• Road Warriors
• WWE
• pro wrestling
• legacy
• addiction
• corporate politics

Keywords

• Hawk
• Animal
• partnership
• mortality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Road Warriors, Hawk, Animal & The End Of An Era, Road Warriors

Places: Japan

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