Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson (WWF Debut)
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2011
- Bobby Heenan recruiting more members to the Heenan Family ends up with him getting one of the greatest tag teams of all time!!! Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson arrive and weren't even given a retarded gimmick or anything!!!
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Within one year these 2 held the NWA and WWF World Tag Team Championships. Truly one of the premiere teams in an era of great teams.
This was the biggest nail in the coffin for Crockett. Arn and Tully were incredible technicians.
Dusty n Schiavone left for WWF shortly after this too, as well as Windham
@@smarkslowplay3512 That was quite a shock to see Tony Schiavone on WWF TV next to Jesse Ventura, even bigger shock to see Dusty play an exaggerated version of his everyman character he honed in the NWA with polka dots. Since the belt wasn't dropped beyond the 2nd babyface at the time, Dusty had no shot of finally getting back that belt he should've won against Billy Graham over a decade earlier, but oh well.
If only Flair and Windham arrived earlier, the Horsemen would make a run at Hogan and likely remove the belt from him for Ric, which likely meant Warrior & Slaughter never getting the belt?
@@rlouie05 last paragraph: that SHOULD have been the play. Flair, Windham, Brainbusters as the Fed Horsemen helping Flair win the title, but he needed some time, and WM6 was gonna end with a babyface win. Flair beats Warrior at Survivors 90, Hogan beats Flair at WM7 maybe?
Jim Crockett Promotions was already going under..Tully and Arn already seen the writing the wall..If Crockett had stayed regional and didn't try to compete against the WWF they wouldn't lasted a while longer..Fans in the south preferred NWA old school wrestling more than they did the WWF's cartoonish style of wrestling..
Robbing us true fans of a Horsemen Midnight Express feud we deserved.
Tony Williams That never happened, or was it supposed to happen?
Crockett blew that by paying Arn and Tully half of what he was paying the Road Warriors...
The feud that never really was, there was so much potential with all parties involved.
@@ratesforless then Vince paid them $50,000 less than they made with Crockett after he promised them they would make more
@@Darth_Rebel_93 At least they got the belts and had that great match with the Rockers
one of the best tag teams that the wwe ever had
Jason Lowder So fucking underrated!!
One the best tag teams ever period . They embodied heel tag team .
They were such an underrated team. No flash, no frills, not even entrance music. They were great heels and some of the best workers I've ever seen. I think Arn did that twist on the powrslam better than anyone.... and some of the best, safest piledrivers too.
I don't think they were underrated at all. They were together for only 2 years but in that time won the NWA tag titles twice, the WWF tag titles once, ended Demolition's then-record title reign, and won the 1989 Pro Wrestling Illustrated tag team of the year.
@@Danimal1177 That’s a very fair point.
Underrated by whom?
@@usgradeabeef2782 I don’t think they were appreciated as much in the day, but looking back on who all they made…… they are remembered appropriately.
Tully and Arn were at the absolute top of their game here. This match was a clinic.
Best theme music ever
They wanted to put up the four fingers. The best part of this was the fact that Everybody knew who they were
One of the greatest tag teams of all time Tully Blanchard Arn Anderson legends
Greatest Tag Team, Arn and Tully, and NOBODY delivers a Spinebuster like Double A!
It was funny that you could tell the difference from the WWF and NWA wrestling styles back then.
Shame Tully got fired from the coke, cause just think if they stayed there in 1990 when Ric Flair came to the company... WWF would've had The Four Horsemen with Curt Hennig (Mr. Perfect) as the 4th man and Heenan replacing J.J. as the manager.
Flair's first stint with WWF/E was in 1991.
Windam was also with the WWF at the time for a brief period. J.J. was working for the WWF, too. I’m sure you already knew this 😂
RIP Bobby Heenan the greatest manager on the history of the business
Yea,that Bobby Herman was something else!!!
@@joegausch
I just noticed. Fucking autocorrect typed Herman not Heenan
No one does the slingshot suplex like Tully!!
Arn and Tully looking sharp, tight and stiff in their WWF debut...
respect to Dash and Dawson who modeled their tag maneuvers and in ring work after Arn and Tully
No matter how hard they tried, the Rock and Triple H will NEVER do it as good like Arn at 3:20.
Nobody had a better spinebuster than AA..... *NOBODY*
Batista had a great spine buster.
Also NWA ran every month at the Civic Center, and was on local TV as well. They were well known. Simply put Philly was Horsemen country. ;)
I miss the civic center, l darn near lived in there watching wrestling
They leave one great manager (JJ Dillon), then gain another (Bobby Heenan). The Horsemen were still alive and well in some form thanks to these two remaining together in WWE.
John Fenner If only Vince had let Bobby manage Windham the following year...
WWF. Let's leave the "E"out of this conversation.
I noticed that sometimes during promos, whenever it would be Heenan's turn to talk, Tully and Arn would put up the four fingers for about a second or two, a practice that disappeared by early 1989.
So good. So fluid. Maybe the only tag team who could beat anybody in any era of wrestling. On the mic and in the ring, watch and learn WWE.
They left NWA because of MONEY and respect. They carried the NWA. They got SCREWED
Money and respect.
1/2 of the Four Horsemen gone in one day. Hard for JCP to recover from that.
I have to say that of all the heel tag teams I watched as a kid the Brain Busters were the team "I loved to hate" the most. The synergy between Arn, Tully, and Bobby Heenan made me believe that the Brain Busters were truly dangerous to the baby face teams I liked the best, i.e. Demolition, Hart Foundation, and the Rockers. The double teams and treachery that the Brain Busters got away with "behind the ref's back" were epic d-ck moves, and they compelled me to route for the baby faces all the more.
I remember this... These guys were awesome
The Brain Busters were great I really enjoyed watching them in both the NWA and WWE.
I remember when in Philadelphia on Prism (local premium channel on cable at the time), they showed a match at the Spectrum between Brainbusters and Rockers. The crowd was so pro Tully & Arn, it was like Rockers became the heels and Brainbusters the faces. Arn & Tully wrestled many many times in Philadelphia when they were with the NWA. I hope that match surfaces some day was a great memory. :)
from Philly...they used to always show WWF Spectrum and Madison Sqr Garden shows on Prism late 80s early 90s...loved it...Prism became STARZ by the way
They did the right thing putting them with Heenan, but they should have went right after Hogan from day one. Putting them in as just another tag team kind of killed them, not to mention naming them Brain Busters. They should have sucker attacked Hogan during one of his interviews, and beat the hell out of him, leaving him for dead, like they used to do to Dusty. All the while Heenan watching on laughing, they should have grabbed the mike out of Mean Gene's hands and pushed him to the floor, then get right up close to the camera and give their promo. They could have tormented Hogan and spawned great story lines, maybe put them in tag matches with Hogan and Steamboat, endless possibilities. The feud could go on for years, the whole story leading to when Flair finally arrives. The Horseman take over the WWF. Now Luger doesn't come in as the lame Narcissist, but as the final member, the final piece, the muscle they need to finally destroy Hulkamania once and for all. Just a thought.
Lmao...no
This is a strong idea.
Cut it out. Hogan eliminated them BOTH... SIMULTANEOUSLY in Royal Rumble 89
Textbook tag team wrestling right there, nothing beats Tully and Arn tag matches. They would dismantle "Air Boom" any day of the week.
Great either way! My favorite all time tag team. It was nice to see them in WWF for a spell.
The arm-drag at 1:23 was a thing of BEAUTY!
That must’ve been hard going from the Horsemen to the Brain Busters
Money had things easy I'd say and they did hold a title unlike many stars .
They were so good.
Not the Brain busters but the 4 HORSEMEN! Diamonds are forever and so are the 4 HORSEMAN!
I miss this era of tag team wrestling. These guys, Arm & Tully, knew how to work as a team. Nowadays, at least in the WWE, they just randomly put 2 guys together and call them a "tag team".
Arn probably has the best spine buster in the business
This was a great run, in my opinion it seemed as if the Brain spoke more than Arn and Tully did. Everyone knows Arn was a master at cutting a promo
Arn anderson is wearing them really nice shiny red and black wrestling boots. I would love collect them one day.
Legendary tag team
October 4, 1988. Arn was just a few days past turning 30.
Arn and Tully basically made a parallel move, going from JJ to Bobby
Funny that this was kind of a TBS reunion match with Tully & Arn vs Emery & Angel
Of course Vince had to give 2 legends a silly name like The Brainbusters. Can never leave well enough alone
Well, they were wrestlers managed by The Brain. They didn't have a gimmick outside of pointing to their heads to indicate intelligence and a double team finisher of a spike piledriver.
I know Tully wanted to pull those thumbs in at 3:37
I would have love to see them fight the Hart Foundation and the Bulldogs.
Summerslam 1989, the opening match is the Hart Foundation vs the Brain Busters in a great match.
Only one member away from having the Four Horsemen in the WWF
Will do.
This debut proved to me that I was the only one in my class that watched the NWA back then. I would hear classmates call these two "those new guys." JCP/WCW was not that well known in the NYC area prior to 1990, just WWF fans.
I had to go through that myself in school living in the northeast. My school mates went crazy over former NWA stars like the Powers of Pain, Ronnie Garvin, and the Sheephers/Buschwackers. None of them mentioned NWA wrestling.
I was just 10 years old living in NYC at the time and I knew who they were and got excited whem Bobby Heenan introduced them in this match (no internet or hotlines back then so the element of surprise was much bigger).
Arn and Tully left JCP because they weren't getting paid jack. Paul Ellering, a manager, was making more than them combined. Tully would fail a drug test and not get picked back up by WCW. Arn returned, but was making a smaller base salary because of them not re-hiring TB. For a long time, Ric Flair was angry at Tully for that. You could say that was twice that Arn got screwed in Atlanta.
@landrykkb Bobby always liked the 4 Horsemen types. Remember his associations with Flair, Luger and Mr Perfect?
This is classic tag team wrestling for all you young punks. Cut the ring in half quick tags use the rope as a weapon.
Ring Psychology
I agree, But the Harts were also great. Both in my top 5 teams. BUT Tully and Arn are my #1
Tactician & The Enforcer
As great as they were, Blanchard and Anderson felt like fish in a LARGE pond in the WWF, title win notwithstanding. If they had arrived in say, 1992, they would've been AWESOME...it was almost as if the WWF took the Crockett NWA model during the steroids scandal and emphasized wrestling...albeit with gimmicks still involved. Most notably Papa Shango. But yeah it was still cool to see them in the WWF.
They were probably tempted to throw up the Horsemen sign!
GREAT TAG TEAM THE BRAINBUSTERS !!!!!!!!!
Philly has always been a heel town.
Today FTR is almost identical
They never could have worked under Slick or Jimmy Hart.
you think bobby heenan would have given up everyone in the heenan family to get the complete four horsemen...the only problem is what name would mcmahon have given the horsemen or would he have even had them stay together.
Now I just think of him as Tessa Blanchard's dad
Tully & Arn were much better as Horsemen then as Brainbusters.
Of course they joined the greatest WWF family of all time.... they are used to being the best
@alexrgs2 What more could you have asked for? In their short stay, they were at the peak of what was probably the hottest tag team scene of all time, were given opportunities to put on good matches and made the most of them. No tag team could have, or should have, had Hogan or Savage's spot. Even so, they were booked in the Survivor Series main event! Blanchard dropped that ball, not the WWF.
thank you for proving my point
NWA tag team meets WWF.
Brain busters v mega powers should have happened
Wow, you sure are a tough guy behind the keyboard in mom's basement huh Junior. Yeah, you must be the toughest guy on the internet just walking tall in cyberspace.
@fjccommish
Yep, they were half of them.
Ever heard of the Ghostbusters😂
@hezamachine god bless Bobby Heenan
I was so mad they showed up in the WWE with that name. I felt they still had business to take care of in the NWA.
so what tha name is cool moron
The brain had the best wrestler s
Not much of a crowd reaction for one of the best teams in wrestling history
thats because they were dumb wwf cartoon watching morons and didnt have much access to NWA programming
Idk, I heard lots of boos. Back then the crowds knew real well who the faces and heels were supposed to be. Nowadays seems like people don't care much anymore. I remember when Flair debuted for the WWF and he had a similar reaction.
@@stormchaserken Facts
I was 10 at the time watching this and I knew who they were when Bobby introduced them here. I was excited to see these two doing their thing in WWF. I think the fans just needed time to see how they would go and adjust with the WWF style back then.
as a Kid growing up in Canada, we only had WWF on TV saturday afternoons, and the occasional Saturdays Main event. When these guys came in I had no idea who they were, the same when they brought Flair in. The WWF was highly marketed towards kids, and all we knew was Hogan, Steamboat, Warrior, Demotlition. Even the Road warriors were unknown to us. I would have been about about 12 at the time. I'm just guessing but most of that audience were brainwashed WWF fans like I was. Back then you only had about 20 TV channels, no internet, and had to rely on the local video store for any alternative wrestling video, and that was usually only a very small selection.
Nothing was worse than Saba Simba !!
Tony Atlas must have been thrilled with that gimmick
Evolution?
what a corny name for such elite athletes
@blaze2k23 Dont forget he had Barry Windham as the Widowmaker, & JJ Dillion was behind the scenes, if Vince was really smart he wouldve worked like a mother to get Flair. Or given Tully a 2nd chance. I mean look how many other boys (ie the Warrior) a 2nd bite. If that happened with FLair coming in not to long after he wouldve had coup.
Aside from being called the Busters and with no reference of any kind to being Horsemen, other than pointing to their heads, were these guys basically portraying the characters they honed for years in the NWA?
Very surprised Vince allowed them to keep their ring names unlike when Sid arrived and he was suddenly "Justice" instead of "Vicious".
I think one of their conditions was to maintain their names. McMahon slapped on the moniker to give it his brand seal of approval.
@@donjohnson1498 Some of us also half-expected the Midnight Express to eventually make it up north to take the fight to the horsemen, but to no avail. Of all the horsemen, Barry Windham got a raw deal with Widowmaker or Stalker, whereas Flair got "The Real World's Champion" moniker while basically keeping his entire NWA gimmick.
@@rlouie05 Windham didn’t need the “Widowmaker” moniker, but he was headed to a program with Hogan, before BlackJack and Beanpole derailed his career with funny money.
One of my favorite tag teams, but I found their WWF run a bit lacking, outside a good program with Michaels and Janetty. Arn and Tully were NWA, through and through. They should never have been allowed to get away.
Can anyone say "Tag Team Wrestling Clinic."
POLISHED. NWA honed 💪💪
@Lfdjake91 How so?
what was their theme?
Arn Anderson is like 30 here.
I never got why the made it seem like they’ve never heard of the guys.
That was McMahon’s philosophy. Insult the fan’s intelligence, as if they only digested WWF content. The magazines made fans aware of all territories, so even if you did not have local TV showing World Class or Mid South, you already knew who the stars were. It was just to stroke one man’s ego.
Would have been better opponents for the mega powers than boss man/akime. Or a singles match v Hogan or savage.
beakaHD IDK...At the ‘89 Rumble, Hogan clotheslined both Busters out of the ring...by pushing/carrying them from the opposite side.
I love how McMahon and Ventura went out of their way not to bring up their past.
They easily could have acknowledged that they have been champions everywhere they have been.
Nope-just act as if they just came out of the Developmental league.
Sad...
As great as they were, Tully and Arn should have stayed with Crockett. That is what happens when you nickel and dime essential talent.
Hmmm, Vince doesn't seem too interested in talking about Tully Blanchard's history or the tough wrestling down in Texas.
Vintage Vince... Never acknowledging a wrestler's past/previous experience.
In 1989, Vince had Arn, Tully, JJ, Dusty, Terry, Garvin, and Barry. Imagine if he had snagged Flair as well.
I still wish Vince would have booked Dusty/Rooster/Garvin vs. Windham/Busters with JJ as referee on Superstars or SNME as a fan service...
I thought they were so boring as a kid who only watched WWE. I knew nothing about wrestling as a kid, that's why I cut Cena slack since he targets kids.
These two are top five all time for me, but I’m not a fan of the slingshot suplex. I don’t see it’s appeal
This was not their debut
So, when was it then?
Tully blanchard and arn anderson < scott dawson and dash wilder
Don’t go that far!
@@mr.speyside5240 eh, not really. Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard are the smartest and profound wrestlers of all mighty
I thing is for sure, these 2 jobbers could sell 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I disagree they were great wherever they went!
Blanchard was on coke during this match....I would put money on it.
Why do they wear the panties? I would wear regular shorts
Most if not all of the 70s and 80s WWF tag teams were great. You know why? WWF brought wrestling into the mainstream. The wrestlers became likeable and fun to be around. WWE continues that today. WCW didn't make wrestlers likeable. NWA didn't make wrestlers likeable. Both WCW and NWA were small time. Now look where WCW or NWA is? TNA Wrestling is also small time.