• Former Tag Team Champions Didn’t Speak To Each Other For 10 Years After They Left The WWF
On an episode of his weekly ‘The ARN Show’ podcast, Arn Anderson revealed that him and Tully Blanchard weren’t speaking with each other for over a decade after they both left the World Wrestling Federation in the fall of 1989.
The Brain Busters were both supposed to finish up their WWF contract at the Survivor Series 1989 PPV and then join Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling right away, but Tully got drug tested and the results were positive (cocaine), which caused WCW President Jim Herd to back out of the deal and only hire Arn instead of the two former 4 Horsemen members.
Here’s what The Enforcer had to say:
“Once we figured out what had happened and they weren’t going to hire him, I mean, that was probably the last conversation that we had for maybe 10 years. I didn’t blame Tully.
I blamed Jim Herd. For him to look at me and say we weren’t worth as much as singles as we were as a team, and since Tully was not going to be hireable because of what had happened, he was going to cut me 150 grand.
My focus with Herd went off of Tully because Jim Herd wouldn’t have been smart enough to come up with that. Somebody told him that and who knows who it was. Maybe somebody was fulfilling a grudge from times past? I don’t know. But when I went home and discussed it with Erin (Arn’s wife), she was the voice of reason.
She said you’ve made the move. It’s still a lot of money over a 3 year period. We can plan our lives. She said all the right things. It’ll be fine. The main thing that I had in my back pocket was I was going from 24 days on the road to about 8, and even though the contract got screwed a little bit on what it was supposed to be, that was still my chance to be home when I’d never been home.
I’ve been on the road with Crockett, been on the road with WWE, I mean every day, and this gave me an opportunity to spend some time with my family and that just was the most important thing for me.”
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (December 20, 1986) – WWF Superstars of Wrestling
On this day in 1986, the World Wrestling Federation aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Superstars of Wrestling’.
This episode was pre-taped at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona and featured matches, interviews & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WWF WrestleMania III’ PPV.
Here is the card:
The Islanders vs. Magnificent Muraco & Bob Orton Jr.
Kamala vs. Pedro Gonzales
The Honky Tonk Man vs. Jose Luis Rivera
King Kong Bundy vs. Steve Gatorwolf
Butch Reed vs. Jerry Monti
Koko B. Ware & The Killer Bees vs. Dennis Stamp & Mike Luca & The Raider
