Road Warriors: The Life and Death of the Most Dominant Tag-Team in Wrestling History [DVD]

I've been a die-hard fan of The Road Warriors since I used to watch them on Saturday mornings in the AWA. In my opinion, there has never been another tag team who can compare with these two. This collection is great because it takes you from their true beginnings ( biker gimmicks, with no face paint!), to their rise (AWA,NWA,WWF tag champs),their WTF?! moments ( "Rocco"/!! REALLY??!!, & Hawk's battles with "his personal demons") to their end (the passing of HAWK). I remember, as a child, I used to get a little scared of them when they would rush into the ring & attack their opponents (or victims!) before the bell even rang. No other wrestler(s) had that instant fear factor, that "IT" factor... as did the Warriors. Watching those old matches on this collection really brought back great memories of how good wrestling USED to be!! I highly recommend this set. If you appreciate wrestling for what it is (athletic 'entertainment') then you can definitely get into this collection. The L.O.D. will live forever.

When you ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, had to get a team to settle a score, and get the job done, YOU CALLED THE ROAD WARRIORS !!! You hated to wrestle them, but man would you want to go into battle w/them !!!They had it all. Management and Direction (Precious Paul), Athleticsm, Charisma, and a killer Entrance Song (IRON MAN by BLACK SABBATH) !!! When you heard it, it was on, because LOD was ready to go to work, (EXCUSE ME, WAR) !!! The scaffold match @ STARCADE '86, makes this worth the purchase. To see the fear in Dennis's face, when he saw Hawk and Animal at the other end of the scaffold , and everyone is 30 feet above the mat, and LOD HAD NO FEAR, would make anyone think twice about what was to transpire !!!THEY TRULY WERE THE BEST EVER !!!Animal, Keep the LOD Legacy ALIVE !!!R.I.P. HAWK !!!

I've loved this team sints thy 80 s I used to have there posters on the walls of my bead room both sides there's never Bine a team so dominate in wrestling and never will im still lod fan wish could of seen um live hawk no menber of loh legin of heaven I pray animal follows hawk lead reseves Jesus I got$1.10 grate buy new condition thank God and prevues owner if ww lod fan git must have no true lod fan would pass up or do with out oooo whot a rush hawk with Jesus help wint out on top he defeted drugs yes liquor is a drug and hawk defeated satan with Jesus as is tag team partnergit this ya hear oooo whot a ruush

This documentary was great. Great showing of The Road Warriors in the AWA, NWA, WCW, and the WWF(now WWE). Also includes story of how Road Warriors broke into the business. Great extra features shown on both discs. Really wish "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath was included but knowing the cost of today's music license fees. I cannot blame WWE for putting in-house music for their matches that were not in WWE. Ohh, what a rush!!! For those wrestling fans that do not know the Original Legion of Doom consisted of The Road Warriors, "Precious" Paul Ellering, Jake 'the Snake' Roberts, The Spoiler, King Kong Bundy, Arn Anderson, The Iron Sheik, the Original Sheik(Sabu's uncle), and Matt Borne(Evil Doink). Just a bit of wrestling history.

I bought this 2-disc DVD set after reading the wonderful Road Warriors book by Joe 'Animal' Laurinaitis. Although not intended as a connected release, that is how they come across. Read the book, see the movie!Disc One: The documentary on the first disc is surprisingly thoughtful and well-edited. I am subtracting one star for the absolutely terrible generic heavy metal played continuously through every interview. It sounds like a rejected score from the old Smackdown Two PS1 game. Thankfully they change the music when it comes time to relate Hawk's tragic early death.Do not pass up the Extras on disc one, some hilarious promos from the Road Warriors. But more importantly, and this is worth the purchase of the DVDS: Brief 1-minute commentaries from Michael 'P.S.' Hayes and Paul Ellering about life, and striving for goals. These guys look into the camera and tell the viewers (and aspiring wrestlers) to get up in the morning and reach for goals. And if you're not getting up in the morning with something to get up for, then FIND SOMETHING! And get up. Surprising, but effective advice. (Also great 2005 commentary from Jim Ross and Animal on an early match against two legends in Las Vegas.)Disc Two: One of the highlights of Animal's book (and a great recommend there) is his recall of the time the Road Warriors finally got to wrestle Hulk Hogan in Japan. Here, we see the actual 1991 Japanese match, to a sell-out Japanese crowd. Hulk Hogan and the Road Warriors are in their prime, and it shows. Hogan is almost a heel for this match, since it wouldn't be aired in America. Great stuff to watch, as hardcore as anything the later 'Attitude Era' could come up with. Hogan gets his own face paint shortly into the match, his own blood! Hawk gets busted open, too. The new alternate commentaries by Jim Ross and Animal for several of these matches is a true highlight, you've gotta hear them call these matches!After I bought this, I put off watching it for a few weeks. I thought I knew the Road Warriors. When I finally sat down to watch it, I was blown away. One of the best DVD releases from the WWE that I can think of. Buy it!

There is some really good footage on here including lots of full matches that are very good. The story is on disc one and is excellent. Disc two is just full of matches. The only complaint I have is that WWE should have put more of the Road Warriors' classic matches from there early days if they had the footage. I know of one match that is missing from a PPV which included a triple tierd cage match which was a pretty good match. Also I know the Road warriors had fought Dusty Rhodes and there was just a brief mention of that. But all in all if you are a Road Warriors fan this is an excellent DVD to own.