YMMV / Demolition

• Awesome Music: Rick Derringer's theme song for them, complete with a huge Epic Riff. "Here comes the Ax, here comes the Smasher..."
• Badass Decay: 1990 started off great with a WrestleMania tag title victory against the Colossal Connection (André the Giant and Haku) (w/Bobby Heenan), but it was downhill from there. Between Ax's health problems, Crush showing up (a weird case of a wrestler debuting as a tag team champion)^note Older Than They Think: The Road Warriors were introduced in Georgia in 1983 as the NWA National Tag Team Champions. and The Legion of Doom's debut, they wound up losing all their momentum that year, and were afterthoughts by next year's Wrestlemania.
• Base-Breaking Character: Cheap rip-offs of The Road Warriors, or great brawlers in their own right? Nowadays the Demos are considered to have evolved into their own style, or at the very least, "The Best Road Warriors Rip-off Ever". Ironically, both the LOD and Barry Darsow all graduated from Eddie Sharkey's wrestling school at the same time.
• Evil Is Cool: By the time of their first title win, they were such badasses that fans were starting to cheer them.
• Funny Moments:
  • SummerSlam 1989. "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan teams with Ax and Smash, and puts on the Demolition mask. It looks goofy enough on a guy like Hacksaw, but then he gets to the ring and they take off their masks, where Hacksaw reveals American flag facepaint, perhaps attempting to literalize All-American Face, and makes a scary face at the camera. The Narm Charm is in abundance, and Jesse Ventura's disgust on commentary is the icing on the cake.
  • Their match with George "The Animal" Steele and the Junkyard Dog from the September 17 (taped August 22), 1987 Prime Time Wrestling qualifies too. Steele appears to actually unnerve Ax before the match even starts simply by sticking his tongue out at him. The big moment is Steele biting Ax's face early on and getting some of Ax's facepaint on his own face. Ax looks to be on the verge of corpsing, and they play up the selling while doing all their usual heel tactics.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Every tag title win.
  • The fact that they were THE tag team in WWE during their run. The Hart Foundation and the Rockers spawned bigger singles stars, but no other team in WWE at the time was as dominant and intense as Demolition were.
• Replacement Scrappy: Crush was viewed as one as he replaced Ax, due to his health problems. It didn't help that Demolition was in its end days either.
• Shocking Moments: Just listen to the reaction they received at CHIKARA King of Trios 2008. Ring Oldies, indeed.