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#8 The Powers of Pain

The Powers of Pain with Mr Fuji

During the 1980s, no team was more fearsome, or more in demand, than the Road Warriors. Bigger, meaner, and stronger than the competition, Hawk and Animal were victims of their own success. It became hard for promoters to find credible opponents to the pair.

Enter The Powers of Pain, originally managed by Paul Jones. The duo of Warlord and Barbarian were created to be carbon copies of the Road Warriors and were just as big and muscular. They feuded with the Warriors and even took the six-man titles off their waists, but soon the Powers of Pain faced a foe even they were afraid of.

The scaffold match.

The perhaps ill-conceived match was a product of Jim Crockett's imagination. The idea was for the Road Warriors and the Powers of Pain to collide atop a twenty-foot scaffold erected over the ring. The problem was, Warlord and Barbarian were scared of being injured in the dangerous match. They left for the WWE and were replaced by the Midnight Express.

Once in WWE, the Powers of Pain originally feuded with Demolition before being split up into singles acts. One only can wonder what might have been if the Powers and the Warriors were able to finish their feud.