[Deathwatch] Michael Hegstrand, pro wrestler 'Hawk', 46

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Pro Wrestler Known As 'Road Warrior Hawk' Dies In Fla.

POSTED: 7:35 a.m. EDT October 21, 2003
UPDATED: 7:42 a.m. EDT October 21, 2003

SEMINOLE, Fla. -- Michael Hegstrand, the professional wrestler known as
Road Warrior Hawk, has died. 

Hegstrand, who had a heart condition, died Sunday in his sleep at his
home in Seminole. 

He and his tag-team partner Joe Laurinaitis, known as Road Warrior
Animal, wrestled in hundreds of matches per year in the United States
and abroad in the 1980s and 1990s, and won several world titles.  

Also known as the Legion of Doom, they wore painted faces and shoulder
pads fitted with spikes. 

The tag-team's Web site, which said Hegstrand was 46, posted a message
saying in part "Hawk, you will be missed." 

During a tour of Australia in 2001, Hegstrand found out the ventricle
wall of his heart was so stretched out that it had half the thickness
it should have. The condition, doctors told him at the time, was
life-threatening. 

He is survived by his wife.