Arn Anderson Biography

Lunde began his professional wrestling career in early 1982, spending the majority of the year competing for various independent wrestling outfits around the United States. He joined Southeastern Championship Wrestling, an NWA-affiliated organization based in Tennessee and Alabama, in the middle of 1983. Before the end of the year, Lunde had taken the name Super Olympia and was a member of Ron Fuller's Stud Stable. Throughout 1984, Lunde was a successful tag team player, capturing the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship three times with Mr. Olympia and once with Buddy Rose. However, before the end of the year, Lunde had departed the business and joined Shreveport-based Mid South Wrestling. When the Junk Yard Dogs suggested to Bill Watts, the owner of Mid South Wrestling, that Lunde looked like an Anderson during a TV filming, Watts phoned Jim Crockett and convinced him to take Lunde, and the rest, as they say, is history. Lunde joined Jim Crockett, Jr.'s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in the Virginias and Carolinas after becoming an Anderson. After rival promoter Vince McMahon bought Georgia Championship Wrestling, the corporation expanded its reach into Georgia. Lunde and Ole Anderson, a tag team wrestler who had gained legendary status in the Georgia and Mid-Atlantic areas, shared a striking physical similarity. Lunde's style, like Ole's, was a no-nonsense approach in the ring, specializing in working over a certain part of an opponent's body throughout the bout. Anderson decided to work with Lunde to help him polish his skills, and the Minnesota Wrecking Crew was re-formed, with Lunde replacing Gene Anderson and adopting the moniker Arn Anderson. By winning the NWA National Tag Pair Championship in March 1985, the team immediately established itself as a dominant force in the area. Arn and Ole successfully defended their belts throughout the year, with their most high-profile encounter appearing on the Starrcade '85 program on Thanksgiving night. Against Wahoo McDaniel and Billy Jack Haynes, the Crew successfully defended their championships. The Horsemen of the Four Horsemen, As they began to share common adversaries in the latter half of 1985, the Andersons established a loose alliance with fellow heels, Tully Blanchard and Ric Flair. The quartet regularly teamed up in six and, on occasion, eight-man tag bouts or interfered in each other's matches in order to assist each other win or, at the very least, keeping their belts. The alliance immediately established itself as a power in the area, waging feuds with some of the company's greatest names, including Dusty Rhodes, Magnum T.A., the Road Warriors, and the Rock 'n' Roll Express. Anderson also had success as a singles wrestler, winning the vacant NWA Television Championship on January 4, 1986. Simultaneously, Anderson was still one-half of the NWA National Tag Team Champions, and Anderson's performance as a tandem champion increased his stature inside the territory, even though Crockett Promotions abandoned the National Tag championships in March. The Andersons, Blanchard, and Flair began referring to themselves as the Four Horsemen about this time, with James J. Dillon serving as the group's manager. Anderson also had a remarkable capacity to conduct interviews in order to advance the tales in which he was involved. Because of his propensity to improvise in interviews, he joined the Four Horsemen moniker for the stable, comparing their arrival to an event and the aftermath of their fury to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the name stuck. For most of the year, Anderson held the NWA Television Championship, which he held for a little over nine months before dropping it to Dusty Rhodes on September 9, 1986. By December 1987, Luger had defected from the Horsemen and was in a bitter conflict with them, particularly with Ric Flair. Luger established a tag team with Barry Windham in early 1988, and they began competing for the NWA World Tag Team Championship against Anderson and Blanchard. Windham and Luger, the bigger, stronger duo, were finally victorious, earning the belts on March 27, 1988. The reign would be short-lived, however, Anderson and Blanchard reclaimed the belts less than a month later after Barry Windham turned on Luger and joined the Horsemen during their bout. Despite the fact that Anderson and Blanchard were two of Crockett's biggest performers, they constantly clashed with him about salary. Despite the fact that they, along with the Horsemen, were assisting the corporation in generating millions of dollars in income, they believed they were underpaid. On September 10, 1988, they lost the NWA World Tag Team Championship to the Midnight Express in their final contract match with the promotion before departing for the WWF. Crockett's Brain Busters, Anderson, and Blanchard joined Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.Anderson quit the WWF in December 1989 and returned to his old haunts. Crockett's organization had changed its name to World Championship Wrestling and was now owned by billionaire Ted Turner. Anderson was instrumental in the Horsemen's reformation, and he soon rose up the ranks of the business, earning the NWA World Television Championship on January 2, 1990. Anderson held the title for nearly the whole year before succumbing to Tom Zenk. Zenk's reign would be short-lived, as Anderson reclaimed the championship on January 14, 1991, after it had been renamed the WCW World Television Championship. In the summer of 1991, Anderson teamed up with Larry Zbyszko to form The Enforcers, a tag team. They won the WCW World Tag Team Championship on September 2, 1991, after wrestling for several months and rising through the tag team rankings. However, their reign was short-lived, as they were defeated by Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes two and a half months later. After that, Anderson and Zbyszko went their separate ways. Anderson soon bounced back from his breakup with Zbyszko by forming a tag team with Beautiful Bobby Eaton, a long-time buddy, and one-half of the Midnight Express. Anderson re-formed the Four Horsemen in May 1993, joining the original Horsemen of Ole Anderson and Ric Flair. Blanchard, who was supposed to be a part of the group, however, failed a drug test and was fired from the firm. The Horsemen presented Paul Roma as their newest member as a replacement. Roma had spent much of his WWF career as a jobber, despite being agile and a good in-ring opponent. Triple H remarked in an interview for the Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen DVD that the acquisition of Roma made the group's membership the weakest in its history, while Arn himself compared to Roma a glorified gym rat. Anderson walked out on Raw on March 31, 2008, to say his last goodbye to Ric Flair and praise him for his career. He was backstage at the No Mercy event in October of that year, congratulating Triple H on regaining the WWE Championship in a bout against Jeff Hardy. Anderson made a brief cameo as the guy behind the voice of the Shockmaster skit, who was subsequently revealed to be Santino Marella, during a backstage segment between DX and Guest Host Dusty Rhodes on the August 31, 2009, Raw. When Anderson realized he had been discovered by Triple H, he dashed off-camera. On the June 28, 2010, episode of Raw, Anderson appeared with Michael Hayes, Mike Rotunda, and Dean Malenko to congratulate Ricky Steamboat on the release of a DVD showcasing his career the next day. The Nexus faction, however, savagely attacked the group, including Jerry Lawler. Anderson met with WWE Champion Sheamus backstage on RAW the next week, on July 5, 2010. Sheamus refused to aid the Nexus or anybody else in the WWE locker room because he considered them all as threats to his title. If you don't get together with some of these people in the locker room and halt the bleeding, a month from now you could simply be a big white shark prowling around an empty mudhole, he was quoted as saying (relating to the Nexus invasion plot). Sheamus scoffed at Anderson's suggestion at first, but when Anderson departed, he appeared to be thinking about it.

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