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12.3. Who were the Legion of Doom?
The Legion of Doom was a originally a group of wrestlers managed
by "Precious" Paul Ellering in Georgia in 1983. At one time or
another, the group included Jake Roberts, the Spoiler, King Kong
Bundy and Buzz Sawyer. The headline team of the group was always
the Road Warriors. By 1984, the Road Warriors were the sole
charges of Paul Ellering. After that, the name Legion of Doom was
just used as another nickname for the Warriors.
When the Road Warriors jumped to the WWF in mid 1990, they called
themselves the Legion of Doom, but that was merely a
marketing-driven name change from their NWA/WCW personas of the
Road Warriors.
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