He had a cool look for a manager and he just always seemed like a bad ass to me. I guess he kind of fit with the Road Warriors. They were a cool team and they should have a cool manager but at the same time the Road Warriors really didn't need him. The Road Warriors didn't really need a mouthpiece, imo. They were both solid enough on the mic on their own. I don't think Ellering added much to them because they didn't need him.
Paul Ellering worked very well as the manager of the Road Warriors because he gave the impression that he had just enough control over them. When I watched them growing up, I thought of Ellering almost like a puppet master, controlling the strings of Hawk and Animal just enough that he kept them focused on the job at hand which was to dismantle their opponents. It was as if he was saying that if he wasn't there the carnage would be that much worse.
No, the Warriors didn't need Ellering like, for example, the Midnight Express needed Jim Cornette or Kamala needed General Skandor Akbar. But, Ellering provided enough focus and was great on the mic enough that it did work out.
Besides, Ellering actually worked out well managing other wrestlers besides the LOD. I remember some of his promos when he managed Buzz Sawyer during his feud with Tommy Rich. Also, he had this angle once where he had a hypnotic control over Arn Anderson, and that led to some great matches with Arn and Paul vs. Ole Anderson and Stan Hansen.
