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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: While he was a heel for most of his career, he is one of the few guys in wrestling that just about everybody likes in real life.

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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: While he was a heel for most of his career, he is one of the few guys in wrestling that just about everybody likes in real life.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Used his native Georgia drawl as an "Anderson" from Minnesota.
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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinball.

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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinball.pinfall.
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* ThrowItIn: The Four Horseman name came from an offhanded comment he made, "That last time four guys caused this much destruction, it was the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Tony Schiavone, the announcer for the territory at the time, knew immediately Arn had come on to something, and it stuck.
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'''Martin Lunde''' (b. 1958) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Rome, GA as '''Arn Anderson.''' He debuted under his own name in 1982 and wrestled for various independents around the Southeast before arriving in Southeastern Championship Wrestling in Alabama in 1983. He had a small run as the masked '''Super Olympia.''' He was given his name because of his physical resemblance to Ole Anderson (Al Rogowski.) He is best known for his work in the mid-1980s and 1990s as a member of the Four Horsemen. He stayed with Jim Crockett's Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance territory until Crockett sold it to Ted Turner in late 1988, leading to Anderson, Tully Blanchard and manager JJ Dillon jumping to Wrestling/{{WWE}}. (Dillon would be part of the office until he returned to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1997 because he couldn't keep up with Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}}'s work ethic.) Anderson and Blanchard would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Titles]] before losing them back to Wrestling/{{Demolition}} in 1989. Anderson returned to WCW in 1990 and competed until neck and back injuries forced him to retire in 1997. He would work backstage as an agent until the bitter end in 2001, a role he continued in WWE. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a 4x former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-tv.html NWA/WCW World Television Champion]], a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]], a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Champion]] and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]].


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'''Martin Lunde''' (b. 1958) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Rome, GA as '''Arn Anderson.''' He debuted under his own name in 1982 and wrestled for various independents around the Southeast before arriving in Southeastern Championship Wrestling in Alabama in 1983. He had a small run as the masked '''Super Olympia.''' He was given his name because of his physical resemblance to Ole Anderson (Al Rogowski.) He is best known for his work in the mid-1980s and 1990s as a member of the Four Horsemen. He stayed with Jim Crockett's Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance territory until Crockett sold it to Ted Turner in late 1988, leading to Anderson, Tully Blanchard and manager JJ Dillon jumping to Wrestling/{{WWE}}. (Dillon would be part of the office until he returned to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1997 because he couldn't keep up with Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}}'s work ethic.) Anderson and Blanchard would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Titles]] before losing them back to Wrestling/{{Demolition}} in 1989. Anderson returned to WCW in 1990 and competed until neck and back injuries forced him to retire in 1997. He would work backstage as an agent until the bitter end in 2001, a role he continued in WWE. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a 4x former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-tv.html NWA/WCW World Television Champion]], a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]], a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Champion]] and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]].

Champion]]. He is often considered one of the best wrestlers never to hold a major singles title.

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* BadassNormal: He wasn't physically impressive by any stretch of the imagination, but he was a very good technical wrestler.

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* BadassNormal: He wasn't physically impressive by any stretch of the imagination, but he was a very good technical wrestler. And wasn't afraid to tell you about both halves of it.



* OnlySaneMan: In The Horsemen he was this a lot

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* OnlySaneMan: In The Horsemen he was this a lotlot, both in promos and in real life.



** (in WWE): [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan The Heenan Family]]

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** (in WWE): [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan The Heenan Family]]Family]] with Tully Blanchard as "The Brain Busters".



* ThrowItIn: The Four Horseman name came from an offhanded comment he made, "That last time four guys caused this much destruction, it was the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." It stuck.

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* ThrowItIn: The Four Horseman name came from an offhanded comment he made, "That last time four guys caused this much destruction, it was the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." It Tony Schiavone, the announcer for the territory at the time, knew immediately Arn had come on to something, and it stuck.



* YoungerThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's during that time.

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* YoungerThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's during that time. (And would say that if he was older, the (legit) Horseman lifestyle would've killed him!!)
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* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, the Rock N Roll Express, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Doom (Wrestling/RonSimmons and Butch Reed), the Steiner Brothers (Rick and Wrestling/{{Scott|Steiner}}), [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]], Wrestling/HulkHogan, [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the NWO]]

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* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, the Rock N Roll Express, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Doom (Wrestling/RonSimmons and Butch Reed), the Steiner Brothers (Rick and Wrestling/{{Scott|Steiner}}), [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]], Wrestling/HulkHogan, [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the NWO]]Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors
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* ThrowItIn: The Four Horseman name came from an offhanded comment he made, "That last time four guys caused this much destruction, it was the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." It stuck.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: While he was a heel for most of his career, he is one of the few guys in wrestling that just about everybody likes in real life.

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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinball.
* OlderThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's during that time.

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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinball.
* OlderThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's during that time.
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* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, but neither guy really had the talent needed to justify their pushes.

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* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, but neither guy really had the talent needed to justify their pushes.pushes.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's during that time.
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* OlderThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's a the time.

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* OlderThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's a the during that time.

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* BadassNormal: He was a very good technical wrestler.

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* BadassNormal: He wasn't physically impressive by any stretch of the imagination, but he was a very good technical wrestler.



* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinfall.

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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinfall.pinball.
* OlderThanHeLooks: During the Horsemen heyday of the mid to late 80s, he was paunchy and bearded with a receding hairline. He was in his late 20's a the time.

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* [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Team]]: Two, in fact.
** In WWE's developmental promotion OVW, Wrestling/BrockLesnar and Shelton Benjamin were known as the Minnesota Stretching Crew.
** Lacey and Rain teamed in Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and elsewhere as the Minnesota Home-Wrecking Crew.



** Received one, or, at least, his old tag team did, when Lacey and Rain teamed up as the Minnesota Home-Wrecking Crew.
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** Received one, or, at least, his old tag team did, when Lacey and Rain teamed up as the Minnesota Home-Wrecking Crew.

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* BadassMustache



* LargeHam: Well, at least as much as one could be when he's standing next to '''RIC FLAIR'''.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Horsemen were naturals at this. In fact, it's how he beat ''Hulk Hogan'' on the February 12, 1996 ''Nitro.'' Hulk had him in the Figure-Four. Woman threw powder in Hulk's eyes and Arn hit Hulk with Woman's boot and got the pinfall.



* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, but it didn't really work out.

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* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, but it didn't neither guy really work out.had the talent needed to justify their pushes.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: When Arn Anderson made his debut, he would wear a pimp-style fedora and do outlandish, cocky promos.


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* OnlySaneMan: In The Horsemen he was this a lot
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*** [[VillainTeamUp The Alliance to End Hulkamania]], with Flair and Arn teaming with six members of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom
*** On the January 10, 2000 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', Arn, Wrestling/TerryFunk, Larry Zbyszko and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff came together as the Old Age Outlaws, though it barely lasted a week.

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*** ** [[VillainTeamUp The Alliance to End Hulkamania]], with Flair and Arn teaming with six members of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom
*** ** On the January 10, 2000 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', Arn, Wrestling/TerryFunk, Larry Zbyszko and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff came together as the Old Age Outlaws, though it barely lasted a week.



* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, which didn't really pan out for either guy.

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* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, which but it didn't really pan out for either guy.work out.
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* {{Unrelated|Brothers}} WrestlingFamily: He is a member of the {{Kayfabe}} Anderson family.

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* {{Unrelated|Brothers}} WrestlingFamily: He is a member of the {{Kayfabe}} Anderson family.family.
* TheWorfEffect: Well, WCW tried. They fed him to Erik Watts and the Renegade, which didn't really pan out for either guy.

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*** On the January 10, 2000 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', Arn, Wrestling/TerryFunk, Larry Zbyszko and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff came together as the Old Age Outlaws, though it barely lasted a week.



* RealSongThemeTune: He used Music/{{Metallica}}'s "The Four Horsemen" for his one Wrestling/{{ECW}} appearance, which was he and Wrestling/TerryFunk teaming up in a losing effort against Bobby Eaton and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} at ''ECW When Worlds Collide'', May 14, 1994.

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* RealSongThemeTune: He used Music/{{Metallica}}'s "The Four Horsemen" for his one Wrestling/{{ECW}} appearance, which was he and Wrestling/TerryFunk Terry Funk teaming up in a losing effort against Bobby Eaton and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} at ''ECW When Worlds Collide'', May 14, 1994.



* ShoutOut: On the August 5, 1996 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', he cut a [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=93&nr=61 promo]] on the NWO which ended with him saying, [[Film/TheUntouchables "They send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue."]]

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* ShoutOut: On the August 5, 1996 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', ''Nitro'', he cut a [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=93&nr=61 promo]] on the NWO which ended with him saying, [[Film/TheUntouchables "They send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue."]]
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* ShoutOut: On the August 5, 1996 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', he cut a promo on the NWO which ended with him saying, [[Film/TheUntouchables "They send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue."]]

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* ShoutOut: On the August 5, 1996 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', he cut a promo [[http://www.cagematch.net/?id=93&nr=61 promo]] on the NWO which ended with him saying, [[Film/TheUntouchables "They send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue."]]
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** [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman The Dangerous Alliance]])

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** [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman The Dangerous Alliance]])Alliance]]
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* ShoutOut: On the August 5, 1996 episode of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', he cut a promo on the NWO which ended with him saying, [[Film/TheUntouchables "They send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue."]]
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* {{Heel}}: Almost always.
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* RedBaron: "The Enforcer," "Double A"
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* BashBrothers: With Flair, Ole, Tully, Larry Zbyszko, Bobby Eaton

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* BashBrothers: With Flair, Wrestling/RicFlair, Ole, Tully, Larry Zbyszko, Bobby Eaton
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** [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman The Dangerous Alliance)

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** [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman The Dangerous Alliance)Alliance]])

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[[caption-width-right:228:As [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-tv.html NWA World Television Champion]]


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!!! "Horsemen Style Tropes":
* AlliterativeName
* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors, the Rock N Roll Express, Wrestling/{{Demolition}}, Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Doom (Wrestling/RonSimmons and Butch Reed), the Steiner Brothers (Rick and Wrestling/{{Scott|Steiner}}), [[Wrestling/{{Goldust}} Dustin Rhodes]], Wrestling/HulkHogan, [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the NWO]]
* [[{{Biography}} Autobiography]]: ''Arn Anderson [[Letters2Numbers 4]] Ever''
* BadassNormal: He was a very good technical wrestler.
* BashBrothers: With Flair, Ole, Tully, Larry Zbyszko, Bobby Eaton
* BeardOfEvil[=/=]BadassBeard
* TheDragon: To Ric Flair
* FinishingMove: DDT, Spinebuster
* GameBreakingInjury: The neck and back injuries that forced him into retirement.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: with Ric Flair
* PowerStable:
** (in his Alabama days): The Stud Stable (also the WCW version in 1994), Sonny King's Army and the Spears Family
** (in Georgia): The Legion of Doom
** (in NWA -> WCW): The Four Horsemen, of course.
** [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman The Dangerous Alliance)
*** [[VillainTeamUp The Alliance to End Hulkamania]], with Flair and Arn teaming with six members of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom
** (in WWE): [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan The Heenan Family]]
* RealSongThemeTune: He used Music/{{Metallica}}'s "The Four Horsemen" for his one Wrestling/{{ECW}} appearance, which was he and Wrestling/TerryFunk teaming up in a losing effort against Bobby Eaton and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} at ''ECW When Worlds Collide'', May 14, 1994.
* TagTeam:
** The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, with Ole
** The Brainbusters, with Tully in WWE
** The Enforcers, with Larry Zbyszko
* {{Unrelated|Brothers}} WrestlingFamily: He is a member of the {{Kayfabe}} Anderson family.
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-->"Adversity introduces a man to himself."


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'''Martin Lunde''' (b. 1958) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Rome, GA as '''Arn Anderson.''' He debuted under his own name in 1982 and wrestled for various independents around the Southeast before arriving in Southeastern Championship Wrestling in Alabama in 1983. He had a small run as the masked '''Super Olympia.''' He was given his name because of his physical resemblance to Ole Anderson (Al Rogowski.) He is best known for his work in the mid-1980s and 1990s as a member of the Four Horsemen. He stayed with Jim Crockett's Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance territory until Crockett sold it to Ted Turner in late 1988, leading to Anderson, Tully Blanchard and manager JJ Dillon jumping to Wrestling/{{WWE}}. (Dillon would be part of the office until he returned to Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1997 because he couldn't keep up with Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}}'s work ethic.) Anderson and Blanchard would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Titles]] before losing them back to Wrestling/{{Demolition}} in 1989. Anderson returned to WCW in 1990 and competed until neck and back injuries forced him to retire in 1997. He would work backstage as an agent until the bitter end in 2001, a role he continued in WWE. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a 4x former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-tv.html NWA/WCW World Television Champion]], a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html NWA World Tag Team Champion]], a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-t.html WCW World Tag Team Champion]] and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]].


As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arn_Anderson The Other Wiki]].

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