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Title History
- NWA National Heavyweight Championship – Tully Blanchard (1 time);
- NWA National Tag Team Championship – Ole and Arn Anderson (1 time);
- NWA (Mid-Atlantic)/WCW United States Heavyweight Championship – Tully Blanchard (1 time), Lex Luger (1 time), Barry Windham (1 time), Ric Flair (1 time), Steve McMichael (1 time);
- NWA World Heavyweight Championship – Ric Flair (6 times);
- NWA (Mid-Atlantic)/WCW World Tag Team Championship – Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard (2 times), Arn Anderson and Paul Roma (1 time), Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko (1 time);
- NWA/WCW World Television Championship – Tully Blanchard (3 times), Arn Anderson (4 times), Barry Windham (1 time);
- WCW World Heavyweight Championship – Ric Flair (8 times);
Career History [Courtesy of Wikipedia.com]
- The Four Horsemen was a professional wrestling stable in the National Wrestling Alliance and later World Championship Wrestling.
- The original group featured Ric Flair, Arn & Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard. Ric Flair and Arn Anderson have been constant members in each incarnation of the group except once following Arn Anderson’s neck injury where Curt Hennig was given Arn’s spot in the Horsemen.
The original Four Horsemen (1986–1987):
- The Four Horsemen formed in January 1986 with Ric Flair, with Flair’s storyline cousins Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard, with James J. Dillon as their manager. They feuded with Dusty Rhodes (breaking his ankle and hand), Magnum TA, Barry Windham, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express (breaking Ricky Morton’s nose), Nikita Koloff (injuring his neck), and The Road Warriors. Animal, Hawk, Ronnie Garvin and many others fought Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Title during that time period. They usually had most of the titles in the NWA, and they often bragged about their success (in the ring and with women) in their interviews.
- The Four Horsemen moniker was not planned from the start. Due to time constraints at a television taping, production threw together an impromptu tag team interview of Flair, the Andersons, Tully Blanchard and Dillon; all were now united after Ole Anderson returned and, along with Flair and Arn, tried to break Dusty’s leg during a wrestling event at the Omni in Atlanta during the fall of 1985.
- It was during this interview that Arn said something to the effect of “The only time this much havoc had been wreaked by this few a number of people, you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!”
- The comparison and the name stuck. Nevertheless, Arn has said in an RF Video shoot interview that he, Flair and Blanchard were as close as anybody could be away from the ring while they were together. They lived the gimmick outside of the arena, as they took limos and jets to the cities in which they wrestled.
- Baby Doll was Flair’s valet for a couple of months in 1986, after previously managing Tully Blanchard during 1985.
To read the complete history of the legendary Four Horsemen, follow this link to their Wikipedia entry.
Check out the profiles of the classic Four Horsemen members for additional career updates:
- “Nature Boy” Ric Flair
- Arn Anderson
- Ole Anderson
- Tully Blanchard
- Barry Windham
- James J Dillon (manager)