Professional Wrestler. A member of the legendary Road Warriors tag team alongside "Road Warrior" Animal that dominated tag team wrestling for 2 decades. His start in pro wrestling begun after training under Eddie Sharkey in Minneapolis. The birth of his rise to success took off in 1983 when he & fellow teammate, Animal went to work for Ole Anderson's Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) when they were repackaged as The Road Warriors. He went onto other territories such as Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association (AWA), Antonio Inoki's New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Tod Gordon's Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW) as a singles star, Giant Baba's All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Jim Crockett's Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (JCP, later WCW) alongside Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He was very successful in tag team wrestling capturing the IWGP Tag Team titles with "Power Warrior" Kensuke Sasaki twice as The Hell Raisers, the AWA World Tag Team one time, WWF World Tag Team titles twice & NWA World Tag Team championships 3 times with Animal. He continued his wrestling career until his death in 2003. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011 alongside Road Warrior Animal & "Precious" Paul Ellering.
Professional Wrestler. A member of the legendary Road Warriors tag team alongside "Road Warrior" Animal that dominated tag team wrestling for 2 decades. His start in pro wrestling begun after training under Eddie Sharkey in Minneapolis. The birth of his rise to success took off in 1983 when he & fellow teammate, Animal went to work for Ole Anderson's Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) when they were repackaged as The Road Warriors. He went onto other territories such as Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association (AWA), Antonio Inoki's New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Tod Gordon's Eastern Championship Wrestling (ECW) as a singles star, Giant Baba's All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Jim Crockett's Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (JCP, later WCW) alongside Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He was very successful in tag team wrestling capturing the IWGP Tag Team titles with "Power Warrior" Kensuke Sasaki twice as The Hell Raisers, the AWA World Tag Team one time, WWF World Tag Team titles twice & NWA World Tag Team championships 3 times with Animal. He continued his wrestling career until his death in 2003. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011 alongside Road Warrior Animal & "Precious" Paul Ellering.
Bio by: RJLee2022
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