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lleeder

11-30-2006, 05:25 PM

I always loved Demolition more. I know they were a rip off but they were my favorite. Which team do you think was better?

Don Stugots

11-30-2006, 05:26 PM

The Road Warriors. they snacked on danger and dined on death.

BoondockSaint

12-01-2006, 02:14 AM

Easily the Road Warriors.  You'll never get the best of them.  Only the worst.

RingWraith

12-01-2006, 02:55 AM

I don't know about Demolition being a rip-off of the Road Warriors since the "Powers of Pain" (Barbarian and The Warlord) looked a hell of a lot like the Road Warriors.Anyhoo, Demolition had the better theme in my opinion.

JesterOfSadness

12-01-2006, 03:24 AM

Demolition ,but the Ax and Smash days...none of this Crush bullshit.

willisjackson

12-01-2006, 03:28 AM

JesterOfSadness wrote: Demolition ,but the Ax and Smash days...none of this Crush bullshit. What was worse, Demolition adding Crush or LOD being managed by a vantriliquist?

EliSnow

12-01-2006, 04:51 AM

The Road Warriors were by far.  They had the better entrance, they were the better athletes, and were an original group.   So many groups copied them in so many ways after them, including Demolition.  I remember going to watch them in a small high school gym in MN when they were with the AWA and I was pretty young.  I remember booing them because they were supposed to be heels, but most of the crowd were caught up with their charisma, etc. and were cheering for them, rather than the High Flyers, who they were wrestling against.

BrownTown

12-01-2006, 05:12 AM

Prime vs. Prime - It's not even close. The Road Warriors were the scariest thing ever.Low Point vs. Low Point - You have to give it to Demolition. As bad as adding Crush was, it doesn't compare to taking orders from Roberto or adding football helmets & a "2000" to their name. I'm not even bringing up drunken suicide threats (wait, I just brought it up, didn't I?)Today - As bad ass as Animal is, he can't beat The Masked Superstar, Krusher Khruschev and The KISS Demon even with the help of Droz & Heidenreich.

BoondockSaint

12-01-2006, 05:17 AM

RingWraith wrote:  Anyhoo, Demolition had the better theme in my opinion. Not when the Road Warriors used to come out to Iron Man.  That was just awesome.

EliSnow

12-01-2006, 05:22 AM

BoondockSaint wrote: RingWraith wrote:  Anyhoo, Demolition had the better theme in my opinion. Not when the Road Warriors used to come out to Iron Man.  That was just awesome.Agreed.

EliSnow

12-01-2006, 05:25 AM

BrownTown wrote: Low Point vs. Low Point - You have to give it to Demolition. As bad as adding Crush was, it doesn't compare to taking orders from Roberto or adding football helmets & a "2000" to their name. I'm not even bringing up drunken suicide threats (wait, I just brought it up, didn't I?)The only reason LOD has a low point was because of their staying power.   They stayed around for a long time, and at some point, McMahon & Co. decided that LOD needed some changes to stay popular.   Demolition didn't have the lasting power to stick around that long and have McMahon mess with them.

tnbt23

12-01-2006, 07:06 AM

hands down its the Road Warriors. Their gimmick was DECADES ahead of its time. They could still be a relevant tag team in the business today. Rocco was definantly a downpoint for them. but i still get chills when i watch Wrestlemania 8 and Bobby Heenan utters the line: "Oh no..... Oh no... Do you know who that is?" (referring to Paul Ellering)   and then Hawk says: "We've been around here like a runaway locomotive.... well look who's driving the train!"...God i love miss those guys.....

reillyluck

12-01-2006, 07:07 AM

definetly the road warriors!

Dougie Brootal

12-01-2006, 07:08 AM

road warriors.no question about it.

K.C.

12-01-2006, 07:11 AM

The Road Warriors in their heyday were easily better. The problem is how WWE has tried too much to revive the gimmick over the years. The LOD 2000, with the football helmets, Sunny, and Droz was useless. And then the remake in 2005 with Animal & Heidenreich was about as bad as it could get. 

This message was edited by K.C. on 12-1-06 @ 11:12 AM

willisjackson

12-01-2006, 08:29 AM

tnbt23 wrote: hands down its the Road Warriors. Their gimmick was DECADES ahead of its time. They could still be a relevant tag team in the business today. Rocco was definantly a downpoint for them. but i still get chills when i watch Wrestlemania 8 and Bobby Heenan utters the line: "Oh no..... Oh no... Do you know who that is?" (referring to Paul Ellering)   and then Hawk says: "We've been around here like a runaway locomotive.... well look who's driving the train!"...God i love miss those guys.....I don't know that you can credit them with creating the gimmick, I am pretty sure it came from the movie Mad Max.  Still a kick ass team though.

EliSnow

12-01-2006, 08:44 AM

willisjackson wrote: tnbt23 wrote: hands down its the Road Warriors. Their gimmick was DECADES ahead of its time. They could still be a relevant tag team in the business today. Rocco was definantly a downpoint for them. but i still get chills when i watch Wrestlemania 8 and Bobby Heenan utters the line: "Oh no..... Oh no... Do you know who that is?" (referring to Paul Ellering)   and then Hawk says: "We've been around here like a runaway locomotive.... well look who's driving the train!"...God i love miss those guys.....I don't know that you can credit them with creating the gimmick, I am pretty sure it came from the movie Mad Max.  Still a kick ass team though.Yes, the look was inspired by Road Warrior, but their "gimmick" went beyond just looks, but also went to attitude and wrestling style.Their attitude was the anti-hero type of character that Austin also used.   It was an attitude, that done prior to the '80s, was considered heel attitude.  And as I said, they were pushed as heels, but they became faces because the fans loved the attitude.  Their "gimmick" was also that they were two animals in the ring that couldn't be hurt by the usual forearm shots, etc.  They no-selled a lot to make themselves look more like monsters.  I'm not sure that really was ever done before in tag team wrestling, where you have two monsters just destroying the opposition.

willisjackson

12-01-2006, 09:55 AM

Good Point, love a good anti-hero

Don Stugots

12-01-2006, 12:11 PM

tnbt23 wrote: hands down its the Road Warriors. Their gimmick was DECADES ahead of its time. They could still be a relevant tag team in the business today. Rocco was definantly a downpoint for them. but i still get chills when i watch Wrestlemania 8 and Bobby Heenan utters the line: "Oh no..... Oh no... Do you know who that is?" (referring to Paul Ellering) and then Hawk says: "We've been around here like a runaway locomotive.... well look who's driving the train!"...God i love miss those guys..... could they now?  are you sure? Droz was a low point too for me.  I loved when they were in AWA and would just destroy whomever they were in the ring with.  it was a clinic in brutality.

RingWraith

12-01-2006, 07:51 PM

BoondockSaint wrote: RingWraith wrote:  Anyhoo, Demolition had the better theme in my opinion. Not when the Road Warriors used to come out to Iron Man.  That was just awesome.Well of course it's gonna be better if you come out to a real song.  I was comparing from one "wrestling theme" to another.

Team_Ramrod

12-01-2006, 11:58 PM

JesterOfSadness wrote: Demolition ,but the Ax and Smash days...none of this Crush bullshit. I'd have to agree. <strike>Kona</strike> Crush was a sign the end was near.

WRESTLINGFAN

12-02-2006, 02:39 AM

Road Warriors. They were at their best in the old AWA

epo

12-02-2006, 08:58 AM

Comparing Demolition to the Road Warriors is like comparing Oasis to the Beatles.  I'll take my childhood memories of watching the Roadies in the AWA destroying people and thinking "these are the toughest men on the planet." 

cougarjake13

12-02-2006, 10:02 AM

definitely gotta go with the road warriors

ralphbxny

12-02-2006, 12:15 PM

The Road Warriors! They came out to Ozzie! Kicked ass!

samnyc

12-02-2006, 02:41 PM

Would love to see two tough guys bring the gimmick back legimiately but Animal could only manage at this point.

Hosp

12-02-2006, 03:44 PM

I'd rather see the Machines make a comeback then any fake LOD The LOD were a better team, more powerful, more agile, more intimidating.And if you saw the later day Demolition, where there was the bloated guy named Blast, you would beg for the days of Droz and Heidenreich.

360legend

12-03-2006, 03:21 PM

LOD for the win. Including Droz. Maybe Heidenreich if he had a bit more time on the mic.

BoondockSaint

12-03-2006, 03:26 PM

Hosp wrote: I'd rather see the Machines make a comeback then any fake LOD The LOD were a better team, more powerful, more agile, more intimidating.And if you saw the later day Demolition, where there was the bloated guy named Blast, you would beg for the days of Droz and Heidenreich.It's still a mystery to me who played the Giant Machine and the Hulk Machine.

360legend

12-03-2006, 03:37 PM

BoondockSaint wrote: Hosp wrote: I'd rather see the Machines make a comeback then any fake LOD The LOD were a better team, more powerful, more agile, more intimidating.And if you saw the later day Demolition, where there was the bloated guy named Blast, you would beg for the days of Droz and Heidenreich.It's still a mystery to me who played the Giant Machine and the Hulk Machine.We might not ever know the answer to that. Anyone remember the Bushwackers?

lintpit

12-04-2006, 01:55 AM

WHAAAT A RUSHHH!!!!  Road Warriors were hands down a better team. Precious Paul Ellering was an awesome manager too. Beside's Hawk died fighting his demons.Not unlike the fighting of opponents in the ring. LOD were the best...perhaps of all time.

ponelas park townie

12-04-2006, 08:17 AM

Does anybody remember Travis & Troy, also known as Tekno Team 2000?<img src="http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/t/tt2000/03.jpg" border="0" width="396" height="487" />Notice the WWF on their wristbands.BADASS!

cougarjake13

12-04-2006, 04:37 PM

360legend wrote: Anyone remember the Bushwackers?yep  i loved them <img src="http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/b/bushwhackers/02.jpg" border="0" width="240" height="180" />

Don Stugots

12-04-2006, 07:27 PM

lintpit wrote: WHAAAT A RUSHHH!!!! Road Warriors were hands down a better team. Precious Paul Ellering was an awesome manager too. Beside's Hawk died fighting his demons.Not unlike the fighting of opponents in the ring. LOD were the best...perhaps of all time. for me the list reads like this:the road warriorstully & Arnthe british bulldogs the midnight expressthe Samon Swat team

360legend

12-04-2006, 08:44 PM

Wait, what about the Steiner Brothers? Come to think of it...I miss the Dog-Faced Gremlin. And Scott...just fucking scares me with his biceps.

Don Stugots

12-05-2006, 05:57 AM

360legend wrote: Wait, what about the Steiner Brothers? Come to think of it...I miss the Dog-Faced Gremlin. And Scott...just fucking scares me with his biceps. they were my #6 team.  i left them out of the top five for no real reason.  a dream match of mine would be them vs. the bulldogs.

Fallon

01-02-2007, 08:34 PM

What aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <img src="http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/emoticons/2.gif" border="0" width="50" height="32" />!

burrben

01-02-2007, 08:41 PM

i gotta go with demolition. in a tag team match they would use all three members. one would hide under the ring.but they don't hold a candle to the hart foundation

TjM

01-03-2007, 02:42 AM

LOD As much as I love Fuji Paul Ellerig was the effing man!