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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Road Warrior Animal on Hawk’s Struggles & Legion of Doom: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful Prime Time Vault episode, Road Warrior Animal opens up about Hawk’s personal struggles, the highs and lows of the Legion of Doom, and the unseen battles behind one of the most dominant tag teams in wrestling history. Animal reflects on Hawk’s inner demons, how they impacted their careers, and what it truly took to keep LOD on top in WWF, WCW, and beyond. From their unmatched legacy to the realities of life on the road, this is an honest, emotional look at the Road Warriors that fans rarely hear.

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0:00.0

This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production.

0:03.9

And I don't think in the history of professional wrestling folks, there have been two more intense, intimidating, great characters than Animal and Hawk of the Road Warriors, also known to many of us as the Legion of Doom, LOD.

0:18.7

I'm really honored to have on me with with me today one half of that legendary

0:22.4

tag team, Joe Laurenitis. And Joe, thank you so much for coming on prime time. How are you,

0:27.4

my friend? Good. Sean, anytime, man. It was always great back in the day doing business with you.

0:34.1

A consummate professional. It's always great to do a fun show like this that you got going on today.

0:40.5

Yeah, and we do.

0:41.3

We do have fun.

0:42.0

This is all positive.

0:45.6

I know, you know, you appreciate what the business brought to you.

0:49.8

And the time that I was with the WWF, WWE, I look back as a tremendous time in my life.

0:58.4

And it's just amazing to me.

1:00.3

And I'm sure that you will agree when you talk about the people that the loyal followers of professional wrestling,

1:08.4

as you have seen a lot longer than I have they're just incredible

1:11.2

aren't they oh man I'm telling you I still go around the world today I do a lot of

1:16.5

comicines and yeah the big one in New York there in Manhattan and C2E2 in Chicago and I do the ones

1:23.9

in Arizona and San Diego and man the, the fans are freaking incredible, man.

1:29.3

I'll tell you what, the best thing about a wrestling fan is a culmination of all sports

1:34.3

and a culmination of non-sports fans that love professional wrestling as a release to their normal everyday life.

1:43.5

You know what I mean?

1:46.8

Because in our business, when we get going,

1:51.9

I'm sure you know as being a newscaster and being an announcer at WWF, WWE,

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