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Tully Blanchard Credits Arn Anderson With Four Horseman Name

December 30, 2016 | Posted by Joseph Lee
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Tully Blanchard was a guest on Bill Apter’s “Is Wrestling Fixed” podcast, where he credited Arn Anderson with coming up with the Four Horsemen name. He said that it “wasn’t anybody’s idea” to put the stable together. Here are highlights:

On who came up with the idea for the group: “Nobody. Arn was the first person who, just in an interview, called us The 4 Horsemen for a tag match. Which is why nobody could duplicate it. It wasn’t a promotion saying, “We want four guys to be The 4 Horsemen.” Or, “We want four guys to be this faction.” They always had “families” and they always had managers and whatever else. We were trying to get some houses out of the main matches before Starcade or before The Bash. I forget exactly which one of the big shows. You put Dusty and Nikita and The Road Warriors in a match against Arn, Ole and Flair. I was working with Dusty so I got put in the mix. I was the only non-Anderson family member. I got to be the fourth man in the eight-man tag matches.”

On if they tried to make him Tully Anderson: “No. No. We were good about that. Arn in the way that he is, I’m not sure exactly how, I know I read an article on the airplane about the old Notre Dame backfield that was called The 4 Horsemen. Maybe Arn read the same thing and mentioned it? He mentioned it in the interview and it caught. It instantaneously connected with wrestling fans and we popped in to the Greensboro Coliseum and there was a whole row of college students with sunglasses, coats and ties saying they were The Horsemen.”

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