Huh, I didn't know I'd signed up for this draft....
With the 1st pick overall in the draft, The Second City Saints select:
As our Stable:
The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen formed in January 1986 with
Ric Flair, with Flair's
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. Dusty Rhodes, Animal, Hawk, Ronnie Garvin and many others fought Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Title during that time period. They always 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
TV 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 summer 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 they wrestled in.
Baby Doll was Flair's valet for a couple of months in 1986, after previously managing Tully Blanchard during 1985.