Road Warriors & Demolition - Why Our Feud in WWF Didn't Work
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Vince McMahon has wanted the Road Warriors to join WWE (known as WWF at the time) since the mid 1980s when Animal & Hawk were destroying opponents in NWA Wrestling, AWA and Japan. The Road Warriors were the most dominant tag team in pro wrestling but they didn't arrive in WWF until 1990.
In the meantime, Vince McMahon created a new tag team in 1987 called Demolition. Fans quickly saw the similarities between the Road Warriors & Demolition but the team would only grow in popularity, becoming WWF Tag Team Champions. Ax & Smash (Bill Eadie, Barry Darsow) were on fire for years until McMahon finally signed the Road Warriors in 1990. Fans knew it was time they would finally see their dream match between the two most powerful tag teams of the 1980s. Unfortunately the series came off lackluster to many fans, leaving Demolition to disappear from WWF shortly after.
The Road Warriors interview was conducted in 2000 while the Demolition interview was 2005.
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I always felt Powers of Pain were more of a Road Warrior clone than Demolition.
Yess! Exactly
Exactly, Powers of Pain were the rip off. Demolition was more of a KISS rip off.
Demolition were more wrestlers where Road Warriors would just maul their opponents as did the Powers Of Pain . Warriors were easily the better team against P.O.P where imo the Demolition Vs L.O.D. debate never really was proven imo .
they were both road warrior rip offs after the road warriors big muscle guys with face paint started showing up in the territories and Indies all over the country it became a trope in the same way a heel champion with long blonde hair in a robe became a trope
davidmreyes77 it was literally just the studs!... there was no comparison between lod and demolition. Demolition were far better performers.
But no moves, or even the look was the same. Just the studs, which is mental when you think about it. It’s like saying, ‘well, the rock and stone cold both have black trunks’.
Both teams were over for me. Demolition needs to be in the HOF.
Demolition was a joke! They were fat copycats! These guys think they were bigger than the Road Warriors but they were fat and the RW were jacked!
@Fist Benoit naw, Vince is still holding a grudge against them.
Barry Darsow is part of a class action lawsuit against WWE for concussions etc, so no way they get into the HoF.
How in th f#ck can they say they were bigger in popularity than the road warriors. Road warriors legion of doom were the sh#t!
@@bigdaddydiesel5520 don't forget he tried to sue Vince for the Demolition gimmick too
Both of those teams were amazing. I personally preferred Demolition because they actually sold for the other team whereas the LoD only wanted to look like Superman and Hulk and nothing hurt them. Demolition needs to be in the Hall of Fame.
I love the contrast. The Road Warriors in a dimly lit room still looking like badasses. Demolition looking like they're ready to play a few rounds of golf.
They really are bad asses!!
Lol, i like both teams but that comment sir was too good, lmao!
Well that is 'Mr Hole In One' Barry Darrow after all
The interviews are several years apart
Barry Darsow probably was ready - he's reportedly an excellent golfer.
Man! Demolition walking out to the ring(theme song pumping) with Mr. Fuji was and is still epic!
I always thought Demolition was completely different they just happened to wear face paint as well.
Yeah I never thought that at all
I heard they were racist
@@kool-aidcorncrap7880 good sick of BLM crap
@@kool-aidcorncrap7880 What the hell does that have to do with anything? Lmao.
Road Warriors main moves were No-Selling. Really brought the match down.
Demolition were a class act.
I don't think anyone was bigger in the 80s and early 90s than the Road Warriors. They may not have been in the arenas like Demolition, but Demolition was never the reason arenas sold out. The Road Warriors sold shows out. When I was a kid I took my life savings and road my bike to the civic center(8miles) with my friends to see the Legion of Doom vs Bushwackers. It was sold out, but our school's "Officer Friendly" who was working security, told us we could sit in the stairwell and watch. I bought nachos and slushees for my friends. The Road Warriors were awesome.
Thats awsome ! ....id pay gd money to see LOD perform live in there prime ! ....sounds like most folks here in comment section were lucky to enjoy wrestlings "golden years"😀
@@dub5107 the show went on until 11:39pm. Me and my friends all got in really big trouble. All our parents called the police looking for us. My dad left work to collect everyone's bikes into our big van.
@@aspiringpolymath687 lol!!! The gd ol days ! No cell ...no tex ... One for the grandkids !! .... Gd time to have been young👍
@@dub5107 i see what your saying.
Damn good story.
I got in trouble in the 4th grade for saying , “hawk and animal”. The teacher thought I called some guy a, “fuckin animal”. 😂 big misunderstanding.
Are you kidding me? Hart foundation, legion of doom, demolition, powers of pain, the rockers? That was the golden era. They were all over for me. Wow!
I never saw Demolition as a copy of LOD.
I did.
Gilbert Rodriguez they kinda were but I liked them.
I remember Animal & Hawk in magazines before they were ever in WWF. When Demolition came out, I was like WTF, this was a copy of Animal & Hawk.
I seen them as the fat version!
What was the same about them- they wore face paint. So did ultimate warrior and sting. They weren't copies of road warriors. Jeff hardy wore face paint he wasnt a road warrior clone
I was under the impression that they created demolition because they couldn't get the road warriors so once they got the road warriors they didn't really need demolition anymore
Yeah you're right
Yep that's pretty much what happened
That's what happened, They were in wrestling magazines and pretty popular before coming on WWF and before Demolition.
I don't know though. By the time Road Warriors got to WWF Demolition had already been there a long time. They almost ran their course. I think that third member, Crush, was starting to show up about that time.
@@kenworthNH Bill Eadie had an allergy to some shellfish and Vince decided to bring in Crush and Bill was basically phased out against his wishes and the team fell apart after that as Vince jobbed them out in 1991
Both teams were awesome. I grew up in northeastern US and WWF was what was on TV up here. I don't even think we could pick up the other organizations. Always hated when people said Demolition was a "cheap knock off"
The Road Warriors were the greatest tag team in the history of professional wrestling, NWA AWA and WWF World Tag Team Champions, oh what a rush! Tell em Paul!
The Steiner Brothers may have something to say about that. WCW, WWF, and IWGP (Japan) champs, although neither team were near the workers of Arn and Tully
I grew up on WWF and Demolition and I couldn't argue against that.
@Fist Benoit LOD, Steiner Brothers and The Rockers are the top 3 groups
The Bulldogs are the best then heart foundation and the midnight express and demolition
Top of all time
#1 Road Warriors beyond a shadow of a doubt
#2 Rock n Roll Express
#3 Demolition
#4 Steiner's
#5 Moondogs
Hart Foundation , Rockers an many others didn't stay together long enough
Freebirds, Fabulous Ones an Midnight Express get honorable mention
As a kid I always loved demolition way more. When I was helping cleaning out my parents attic & we found my old demolition shirt I had when I was 4 man did I love that shirt I wore it d much I couldn’t believe it survived this long
Demolition still my all time favourite tag team
i loved Demolition as a kid. seemed like guys outta Mad Max movies....Road Warriors are great but totally different
The feud between the two teams could have been so much more than it was.
And Animal is dead wrong when he says the Hart Foundation weren’t doing it. Sorry.
@@BuJammy I thought it was summer slam '91? 🤔
@@BlindassassinMGTOW I think he meant the Harts' match against the Nasty Boys.
@@CatsClaw44 oh OK, yikes!!!!!! My bad for the misunderstanding.
They made another mistake by putting the Ultimate Warrior in the mix. I remember being hyped for a Madison Square Garden card with Demolition vs. LOD with the Ultimate Warrior either near or at the top of the card...... and it was terrible. The crowd was dead for that match halfway through.
To burst 💥 his bubble???
Demolition was a better team in ring IMO
Vince's intention may have been to do a Road Warrior's style tag team, but I think Demolition did a great job creating their own identity. Both teams were awesome, but I actually enjoyed Demolition more. The Road Warriors were always too indestructible and it didn't always make for a great match.
I remember as a kid I was super disappointed when demolition turned 3 man and started losing all the time. Preferred them over lod anyday
Demolition were far and away,the better team!
Bill Eddie didn't give a shit if the Road Warriors had a problem with it or not and he meant it. The Masked Superstar was no joke.
RIP Hawk
I grew up with access to WWF and Crockett, with equal exposure to both teams. I preferred Hawk and Animal because they felt more authentic. Even as a little kid, Demolition seemed like a thrown together attemped of WWF to have their own Road Warriors. Axe looked like a bank teller trying to be cool and Smash's promos never came across as intimidating. I understand Demolition evolved into their own thing, and I appreciate them now in hindsight, but I still prefer The Road Warriors.
Vince completely ruined demolition they were so over in 1990 look at the pop they got after Wrestlemania 6! Wrestlemania 7 and there’re jobbing to the Japanese visitors
I liked Demolition. But at the time I thought this and still do to this day - they were a low rent version of The Road Warriors. Before they came to the WWF/E, the Road Warriors were already legends. Their fueds with the Freebirds, Midnight Express, and The Steiners (and don't forget the Kiwi Sheepherders) were pure greatness.
Well that's you're opinion and it is wrong.
That's not an opinion, Suspiria 1966 is being factual. LOD had those feuds in different wrestling organizations and they are legendary. Demolition never left WWE.
lol. I remember the Sheepherders being bad asses. Then Vince turned them into face licking jokes when they came to the WWF.
@@hruiz3308 The Bushwackers. LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fun fact - Andre The Giant was godfather to Axes daughter.
Not surprised. Ax teamed with Andre (The Machines) before he teamed with Smash. It was hilarious to watch Prime Time as Gorilla refuted Heenan's claims that Giant Machine jusy had to be Andre. ("How can you be sure? He's wearing a mask!")
@@pigs18 he worked with Andre as Masked Superstar for years prior to that.
These 2 and Hogan were close friends probably since the day they were the Machines. Hogan also had Ax in the No Holds Barred movie (the guy he wrestles in the beginning) and I think at some point he also wanted him to have a shot at his title but Ax declined?
Both tag teams were my favorite growing up. Hart Foundation complete my top 3 tag teams of all time
I agree with Bill 150%! I liked Joe, but if it weren't for Mike Hegstrand, Joe wouldn't have gone near as far as Mike ended up taking them. Joe had no charisma at all to me. He was awesome to look at muscle wise, but other than that, Mike was the head Road Warrior in the ring and in public!
Yep. I hated Joe’s work and his mic skills were non-existent.
Demolitions entrance music was great!
i liked Bill Eadie when he was The Masked Superstar...he talked the talk and walked the walk,his promos were awesome
He also seemed so much taller as The Masked Superstar
"You wanna wrestle, I can wrestle. You wanna brawl, I can brawl." When I saw that promo in the WWWF back in like 80 or 81, I believed every word. Bill could be as menacing as all get out as the Masked Superstar.
@@Rendclaw i saw the great harley race at a live event back in the good ol days
Demolition with Mr Fuji...those were some entertaining matches. I remember being excited when “Legion of Doom” came to the WWF because it meant we’d finally see them face Demolition. But, i can’t remember there being buildup or a long lasting story arc. Seemed like it came and went pretty quickly.
Demolition is a legendary tag team, I've never looked at them as Road Warriors/L.O.D. rip offs. Powers Of Pain were Road Warriors/L.O.D. rip offs, they looked exactly alike, minus the spiked shoulder pads.
I'm agreeing Hawk was the leader, Animal was the muscle.
Ironically if you watch the early days of LoD, Animal was the one speaking on promos and Hawk would just flex and pop his neck collar off!
no. i am the leader
I always strongly preferred Demolition, they had more personality and were better workers overall. The Road Warriors had the look and intimidation factor but their matches were only as good as their opponents could make them.
Demolition were much better workers and Bill Eadie was the best worker and promo of all of them. He had the most intense voice when he was Ax.
@@j2oaks I loved how Ax always sounded like he meant business but didn't need to yell, which gave him some contrast with Smash.
Demolition was a great tagteam I don't think I've ever seen them have a bad match
@@palaceofwisdom9448 Smash- "We're gonna kick their stinkin' teeth in!"
I liked Demolition but give me the Road Warriors any day.
Hawk made a good point about building the feud up for 6 months before letting it happen. Animal and especially Hawk had some legendary ideas like Doink and Stone Cold's smoking skull belt.
@…the lil devil on your shoulder Matt Borne was sitting in a locker room, stomach out, looking down on his luck, smoking a cigarette. Hawk called Vince into the locker room, pointed at Bourne and said "Look, it's Krusty the Clown!" Hawk said Bourne should start playing an evil clown. Bourne and Vince eventually came up with Doink. For the Smoking Skull, Stone Cold said that Hawk told him he should have his own belt with the skull logo on it and Animal gave him ideas on top of that. Hawk also came up with the Paul Bearer name. Cool stuff.
They also came up with those Zubaz pants so popular in the 1980s
RIP Mike.
***puts my popcorn away*** 30 years on, Demolition still is the greatest tag team ever. Axe and Smash are still around looking great both mentally and physically, theyre the living history of old school wrestling with all their storytelling and should be inducted in the HoF asap. ***grapbs my popcorn***
Demolition was basically in a class of their own.
They had the look, the intro music, were great workers... The gimmick was a little more "hardcore" than LoD in my opinion as well and they had an awesome finisher.
@@TheRmm1976 ehhhh Demolition may have been better workers in a technical sense but that was part of LODs gimmick no selling and kick ass. The pre-WWF intro music is classic people still play that song TODAY. LODs look was definitely more intense the football shoulder pads with 10 inch spikes was definitely more intimidating than Demolitions hockey mask with stud spikes. The Doomsday Device was hands down greatest tag finisher of all-time. Demolition may have been good workers but in the end Demolition to The Road Warriors is the pretty much the same as Go-Bots to the Transformers.
Demolition was made by Vince because LOD said no when he tried to recruit them the first time. However Demolition kinda did come out LOD's shadow into their own. Still Hawk & Animal own their gimmick.(Animal by himself now) Demolition doesn't, Vince does.
Copy Cats!!!
@Lucas Cruz Please explain how they were way more badass. Yes 10 inch spikes give or take an inch or 2 you must not have seen the original BLACK spiked shoulder pads the ones they wore before Vince nerfed them for marketing purposes if not Google it wrestling was around BEFORE that attitude era. Even if the red and black shoulder pads where rubber or plastic I'd take them to a fight anyday over a studded hockey mask that looks like something Luna Vashon would wear. If you mean to tell me that if you gotta go to war that you would pick someone who look like a couple of beer drinking ex-bowlers with a gay S&M fetish that sound like they smoked 10 cigars a day since the age of 7 over a couple of high ranking motorcycle gang members that do nothing but fight, drink hard liquor and throw around 80lb dumbells 6 hours a day I feel sorry you and you future.
It's obvious that Vince McMahon wanted The Road Warriors since day one, but when he couldn't get them at the time, he created his own version. He was doing this before WCW was doing it.
@what does the name matter? That's not bad at all
I like the Road Warriors finishing maneuver the Doomsday Device
James Mabrie ....no one on the receiving end did.
@@dp-mo5jh 🤣😂
Smh...... Total Elimination!!!
Remember when hawk died at the dudleys did it aint pointed to the stars
isnt it illegal now?
I just can’t believe that Road Warrior Animal is John Laurinaitis aka Johnny Ace’s brother! Talk about polar opposites!
As a 50 year old wrestling fan who grew up on Georgia championship wrestling I even though I Bob the Road Warriors and demolition ax will always be the masked Superstar
i liked Demolition's entrance music.
Two of my favorite Tag Teams of all time and they never faced each other The Road Warriors and Undertaker & Kane. The Demolition was good but they counted as 3 members
Me and my bro literally just talked about these teams last week. We joked about how LOD, while in NWA, would talk trash about Demolition (WWF) without calling their names lol. Classic days of wrasslin’
I've said what Mike said since the debacle happened..There should have been a build up. I think the two biggest matches in history should have been Flair v. Hogan and Road Warriors v. Demolition and both of em tanked. I got the same impression, that it was too rushed, and looked like a way to end Demolition. Growing up, I was always a RW over Demolition fan, and 'knew' the Warriors would beat em, but there were a lot of Demo. fans who thought the opposite. For those fans, they should have let the tension build, then have a scenario where somehow the two teams meet outside of the ring, or in a battle royal, etc and let em beat each other up with no clear winner..an have Demo jump one of the Warriors, then vice versa. AFTER having Demo drop the belts, and the Warriors have to fight their way up, then Demo run in and ruin it for em .Nothing kills a match like disinterest or apathy and the longer they waited, the more it wouldve built the suspense and excitement.
I remember as a kid at wrestlemania 6 that Demolition was so over that night. I actually thought adding crush to the mix was kinda cool but not as a replacement for ax. I believe Fuji became their manager again when ax officially left but at that point no one seemed to care about demolition anymore
Yeah, Crush kind of marked the beginning of the end.
It's because Vince destroyed Demolition on his own . The Road Warriors was Demolition replacement according to him . And then he tdd skes Smash Barry Darsow and makes the Repo man out of him , awful
Except it was Darsow's idea to do Repo Man.
I agree with what Animal said. Bring in the Road Warriors and have them and Demolition to through every other team until months later they collide.
For Demolition you can tell, it was a job. For the Road Warriors (Legion of Doom) you can tell they don't know it's a character, they are living it. I'm sure that had to do with some of the issues.
I always preferred Demolition and felt they were thrown under a bus in favor of LOD. Thus, Demolition parted company. Really sad.
LOD was the better known tag team with the better credentials. Dont get me wrong Demolition created their own niche in the business, just a tad below LOD.
The only reason why Demolition was made was because Vince couldn't get LOD when he tried the first time. If he had gotten them Demolition never would have existed.
@@gregorylevi1826 Yeah I read that story long time ago.
I think demolitions one of the best tag teams in the WWE
What Hawk said is exactly what the Demos said,it was way to soon.Took they theme song.Changed from paint to mask and then just gone.Demolition was still massively over,there was no reason to dump them like that.Bill Eadie said they basically did the same with Hogan vs Flair
Think a Road Warriors Vs Demolition feud could have worked but at the time when they came in Demolition was in a feud with The Hart Foundation over the tag team titles which Foundation won and then it was Demolition as a threesome against Warriors aka L.O.D. with The Ultimate Warrior in 6 man tag matches so they didn't mean as much . They should have had it where Demolition retained their titles and then L.O.D. comes in and challenges them to the tag titles and then it would be to prove who was the better team and the tag titles are the icing on cake . The Original Vs Vince's creation . The angle would have been priceless and having matches where Demolition just barely hold on to the titles then have a match at Wrestlemania where L.O.D. finally get the belts . Instead it was merely 6 man mathes with Utimate Warrior and house show matches where it meant nothing .Even though they did win the belts they held them barely for a cup of coffee and Demolition is ranked as the better team which they were a good team wrestling wise where L.O.D. would just come in and maul everybody that got in their way think if the angle had been done right it could have been so much better and meaningful than just a few matches that were barely memorable at least from a fan's perspective .
Such an interesting dynamic between hawk and animal
The Road Warriors was the most Devastating Tag Team in Professional Wrestling they won the AWA NWA and WWF titles
James Mabrie they were more like Ultimate Warrior and Goldberg. All look no substance
It seems that back then , if Vince couldn't get the real thing ....he kinda made his own ... But Demolition did find there creadabity down the road👍
Demolition worked...their images were burned into my psyche way before The Undertaker. The Road Warriors were the Mad Max types but Demolition was potentially scary. They were METAL!!!
I always wished they'd come back during the time when Undertaker was in his darkness prime.
I met the Road Warriors years ago at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and those who are really big in person
Loved both teams separately, and agree that their work together was underwhelming.
Demolition’s gimmick looked nothing like The Road Warriors. Demolition’s look with the black masks was much more menacing IMO.
I didn't feel Demolition was a knock off. They wrestled very different matches than the Road Warriors. They could have had a good feud back when Ax and Smash were still red hot. By the time the Warriors showed up, Ax was not well physically and no one gave a shit about Crush. And having three of them around just weakened their gimmick further. The timing was just off. People didn't take to Demolition as heels like they did when they were with Fuji, either.
Demolition.... Great Finisher Tooo !!!
Lol!!! Yes it was man ! ..simple original and not bad to execute 👍👍..rite on bro!!!!
The Road Warriors were a great tag team.
It's your boy Bleuuuuuu always wanted to see road warriors go to wwf n they finally did
I always love Road Warriors.
Natural.
For me, the Road Warriors were very good. But Demolition were the greatest tag team ever.
What they should have done is ppv tag team tournament where demolition(axe and smash) waits for their challenger. At the end of it Demolition would retire if they lose. Then you run the feud with the Hart foundation incorporating the Nasty Boys to break up the Hart Foundation at the end. It would end with Bret Hart putting the Anvil in the Sharpshooter in a 3 v 3 LOD vs Nasty Boys and Anvil. The Nasty Boys would beat anvil for giving up, but the Blue Blazer would come in for the save. He would be unmasked and Bret would come back in for the double save. The Hart foundation would be reborn.
The Powers of Pain were the rip off LOD.
Not Demolition.
Both were
@@thesupervisor3270
Given me a similarity between LOD & Demolition that stands out from what was typical in the 1980s
@@jesseandrews2303 u SERIOUSLY don't believe Vince made Demolition to be his Road Warriors?
@@jesseandrews2303 thank you. I'm glad someone with wrestling knowledge finally arrived. Demolition were over. Besides the face paint there were no similarities. Meanwhile warlord is hawk and barbarian is animal clear as day. And demolition vs hart foundation was a classic feud. They Bret look amazing and 1 year later bret was going for his first single title.
LOD is arguably the best team ever but let's give demolition a little more respect. They were the longest reigning tag champs for over 20 years before new day broke the record. Demolition are legends
Love the Road Warriors. RIP Hawk and Animal.
Road Warriors greatest tag team of all time
Mulkeys.
The midnight express are without peer
Great upload, i think BD is the double of Jimmy Garvin!
Demolition 4 Life!
These the dudes with spikes on shoulder pads? Dude I member them unscrewing one of the spikes and jamming it into someone’s eye. They blurred it out but you could see all kinds of blood through the blur. I’ll never forget that was nuts for me as a kid
I think that was Dusty Rhodes who was on the receiving end of that spike to the eye? I cannot remember if Dusty was the Booker at the time or not; I know it was pretty messed up to watch on tv as a kid
@@staxjackson1559 Yes Dusty was the Booker and it happen in about 89/90 also about the time Dusty joined the Nasty boys to Fight LOD and i forgot who LOD had as a partner
Say what you will about Demolition (And I always thought they looked like they stepped out of an adult S&M movie), but they had a great run with three WWE World Tag Team titles, including the record for the longest reign. The Road Warriors may have been the originals, but perhaps they should have hone to the WWE a bit earlier?
Demolition was a rip-off by the wwf, a bad one, but those guys turned more into a tribute because they are both great in the ring.
Hawk and Animal were lucky that vince just didn’t squash them because it’s something he didn’t create, as we saw him do to WCW guys later on, with the exception of Terry Taylor, vince buried him on purpose.
Stormy Davis Red Rooster, worst gimmick ever!
Demolition started out as clones and got that ish over.Demolition was great
Did Animal really just say the Hart Foundation weren't over in 1990-91? 😂😂
They weren't. After they lost Jimmy and became faces, they were lost in the shuffle.
There was a period in 1989 where the Hart's didn't even wrestle much as a tag-team. Both Bret and Jim were having a fair few singles matches. But after Vince lost some of his other teams ... the Bulldogs left, The Brain Busters left, the Twin Towers split when Bossman turned face, The Bushwackers, Rhythm and Blues and The Bolsheviks had become nothing more than comic relief, The Powers of Pain split with both becoming singles, The Islanders had split when Tama went to the NWA (to become part of the Samoan SWAT Team), The Rougeau's split when Raymond retired. After that Vince was basically left with Demolition, The Rockers and The Colossal Connection who were really only there to keep Andre in the spotlight in a situation where he didn't have to do much because he couldn't do much. The Harts were put back together because Vince needed to prop up his tag team division. Then of course he finally managed to sign Animal and Hawk, plus he also managed to sign others like The Nasty Boys.
But LOD here were right. Instead of immediately putting them against Demolition when they first came into the WWF, they should have built them up over a six month feud that would have made a lot of money and could have been concluded at Wrestlemania VII. Problem was that Vince had made Demolition when he couldn't get the Road Warriors to sign back in 1987. Now that he had signed them, as much as Demolition had basically dominated WWF tag team wrestling over the previous 3 years, they became surplus. Vince now had the "real thing" and basically didn't need Demolition any more.
Demolition did deserve better than how their end went in the WWF.
Arayig1982 not true at all. Hart Foundation were great in 1990-1991.
@@Arayig1982 go watch Summerslam 90 and see the fan reaction when the Harts won the belts. Or watch Survivor Series 90 when the Harts made there entrance. Or listen to the pop they got at Wrestlemania 7 when they came out
To me Powers of Pain was more of a RW gimic then Demoliton was.
As for this story here, I agree. A huge stroke of business was fucked by Vince. Could have been a better buildup and show. Been a sweet Tag Team scene for the time. Demolition, Legion of Doom, Steiners were in and out kinda. But damn in those years Vince coulda made a better deal with all and had some great matches.
They both wore face paint.
Seriously, the way Demolition won their first Tag Team Championship from Strike Force at WrestleMania IV...could anyone see Road Warriors doing that?
People who worked with both teams said they have nothing in common...Demolition were willing to sell, and look vulnerable..Road Warriors weren't.
Plus, the Road Warriors had an S&M look/vibe that Demolition never had.
Its interesting the contrast between the two interviews. Especially how hawk an animal say they lived their gimmick. They look like they are about to go to the gym. Ax and Smash look like two guys in the mall waiting for their wives to pick out shoes. I do agree there was build up.
These interviews are done years apart though. Animal is a fatass too these days.
Demolition are big guys! Just not no Road Warriors!
Although I agree there is a contrast in personalities in that respect, keep in mind that the LOD interview was early 00's. the Demolition interview was late 00's, early 10's. Maybe even a bit later judging by their looks.
The description of the videp says that the LOD interview was in 2000; and the Demolition interview was 2005, so there's that. And let's be honest here, Bill and Barry never had the physiques of Mike and Joe, even in their primes.
@@Bardineer
You right and they never claimed to have their phsyiques but they were over, big selling arcade games and console games not to mention action figures and merchandise revenue something that lod would not receive until wwe
Man demolition was the baddest ass team back in the day.
animal and hawk did look alot alike .. they could've passed for brothers
WWF should have saved this match for WrestleMania. This was somewhat of a dream match at the time, and it should have been saved for the biggest event. The three man tags with Warrior were ok, but didn't do anything for the feud and Vince didn't want Warrior to have any meaningful feuds as champion.
When Eadie says they were bigger, he's literally meaning size. Demolition was taller and were...ahem...broader. LoD were definitely more muscular, but in NWA they weren't going up against the mega hosses WWF liked to sign. As far as over, yes LoD were more over, they had been working that gimmick for most of the 80s, and definitely inspired many copies and clones.
Remember Vince McMahon had Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan in their primes and he did not pull the trigger on a huge dream match on a big event .
Yeah he really doesnt think like that - I think its cause he deep down hates wrestling
He was doing it right for a while but he definitely sabotages a lot of potential multi million dollar possibilities and he seems to be a man of money so it is confusing
They did the match with ric & hulk and it sucked look at the interview with bruno sammartinno it was not good match
@@guillermoletsworkitout3522 Plus it was a house show if I am not mistaken. Went to a double count out. I mean a house show? It should of been wrestlemania or at least summerslam..
I love how the Warriors still look like post-apocalyptic savages in these interviews. Demolition look like a couple of old, retired plumbers. The Road Warriors were NWA, period. Demolition owned the WWF. They were actually quite different. Powers of Pain... now they were the WWF version of the Warriors. Barbarian especially, was just an amazing athlete -- one of the most legit badasses ever in pro-wrestling. He'd rip the other four guys' heads off. But POP were mostly just underused jobbers. But their gimmick was too much like the Warriors.
Demolition were awesome
I remember watching them fight at the Miami area
I preferred the Road Warriors over the Legion of Doom. The RWs stormed the ring with the spikes and dog collars with Iron Man playing. When they went to the WWF as the LOD, they walked to the ring. Their theme music was rather weak and putting them in red boots and red shoulder pads with black spikes was not the move. I grew to like Demolition but the Road Warriors will always be my favorite tag team of all time.
In my opinion what hurt LOD in WWE is not having Paul Ellering. Precious Paul was the real leader of the Road Warriors before they went to WWE and something was missing with the Road Warriors without Precious Paul both in and out of the ring. Road Warriors without Precious Paul= very good, Road Warriors with Precious Paul= great.
I liked the mask Superstar and crusher Krusheff gimics better than Demolition. The Road Warriors were the originals and best!
It also didn’t work because they kept throwing Crush into the mix. Should have just stuck with Ax and Smash on the Demolition side.
Problem was Bill Eadie (Ax) had a health scare in Japan, which he attribute to an allergic reaction to shellfish. Whatever it was, it convinced Vince to hang Bill out to pasteur. Brian Adams (Crush) was a promising up and comer that WWF just shoehorned into the team to transition Bill/Ax out to a more BTS role. But Brian was also very young and very green. I truly believe if it was just the four wrestlers, given more prep and a little more thought into how the styles could mix (like conversing with Pat Patterson) this matchup would have drawn huge.
Did the original Demolition ever wrestle the road warriors in a tag match?
@@zt1053 not exactly. The closest we got was Smash and Crush against LOD and later the three Demoliton members vs LOD and the Ultimate Warrior. All of which were relegated to Wrestling Challenge tapes. Never made it to prime time or pay per view, except a Survivor Series matchup.
TheMrBmurray And probably that’s why It didn’t work because the original demolition Never really wrestled the road warriors
@@zt1053 I agree. But timing was not on their side. Unfortunate changes were happening in Demolition as the Road Warriors were coming in.
I personally always thought Powers of Pain were Road Warrior rip offs and they actually looked better but had no where near the charisma of the Road Warriors. Demolition were far superior in ring talents and actually had variety in their matches because they werent blown up after 5 minutes.
I agree with Animal, this nonsense about the Road Warriors not selling is baloney! I saw plenty of matches where The Warriors were in "trouble", usually against tricky or bigger opponents, like The Skyscrapers! Having said that, I liked Demolition almost as much as The Road Warriors! Heck, I thought Demolition's entrance music was better than The Legion Of Doom's WWF version (Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" was painfully missed!)
R.i.p. Hawk and animal
There's two sides to every story... My side is demolition couldn't hold a candle to LOD!!! I love hearing from the old timers
holding a candle isn’t really that difficult. it’s like holding a pen
@@sappyfoot with that comment it makes me think you have a hard time holding your pen
Jon Puhalski i’m going to assume you typed that on a phone that you were holding so the concept of holding things shouldn’t be too difficult for you to grasp
@@sappyfoot your right my phone has a larger girth than my pen lol but I promise you your mother can use it to write her name in the snow with it. 😜
Jon Puhalski ahh it all makes sense now. i’m dealing with someone that cannot correctly differentiate between your & you’re
Mad max road warrior gimmick was great.
Demolition
Powers of pain
The road warriors
Two great theme songs.....