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Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, known as members of the Four Horsemen, were a professional wrestling tag team in the 1980s competing in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as The Brain Busters.
The duo made their debut late in October 1988, as "The Brain Busters," due to being under management of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan (and, by default, members of the Heenan Family). It was commonplace for the WWF at this time to assign wrestlers to some sort of gimmick, or new identity. The Brain Busters were allowed to keep their names and ring persona. The only changes Arn and Tully made to their style were pointing to their heads to show they were smarter than everyone else and the use of a spike piledriver as a finishing move.
The Brain Busters made their pay-per-view (PPV) debut at the 1988 Survivor Series in the 10 team tag match, where they eliminated the Hart Foundation, before being elimainated via double disqualification with the Rockers. This led to a match with the Rockers on WWF Superstars of Wrestling where both teams were again disqualified before the match could even get started. This kicked off a red hot series of house show matches. One match in particular on January 23, 1989 was rated as one of the 50 greatest matches in the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 10th year anniversary issue, where the Brainbusters narrowly defeated the Rockers as Anderson held down Marty Jannetty's leg as Blanchard pinned him. The teams wrestled to yet another DDQ on the March 11, 1989 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event.
The Brain Busters made their first and only WrestleMania appearance at WrestleMania V against former WWF Tag Team Champions Strike Force. After an even start, the Brain Busters dominated the ex-champions as Rick Martel walked out on Tito Santana and he was brutalized and beaten after a spike piledriver and eventually pinned.
After their WrestleMania win, the Brain Busters finally got to face the WWF World Tag Team Champions Demolition and defeated them by disqualification on the May 27, 1989 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event. The Brain Busters defeated Demolition for the titles in a rematch on July 18, 1989 in a two out of three falls match. After losing the 1st fall, by pinfall, the Busters won the 2nd fall, via disqualification, and won the 3rd fall, with a distraction from Bobby Heenan and a steel chair thrown in from Andre the Giant, the Brain Busters ended Demolitions record-breaking 478-day title reign and became the first team to win both the WWF and NWA World tag-team titles. It also was the 1st time a title changed hands in a two out of three falls match where one of the decisions ended in a disqualification. The Brain Busters lost the titles back to Demolition on October 2, 1989, in an equally controversial fashion as Blanchard, who was the illegal man, was pinned after receiving the Demolition Decapitation finisher. The Busters continued to defend the titles on house shows until the title change was acknowledged on television on November 4, 1989.
Their last match was a best-of-three-falls contest against The Rockers on Saturday Night's Main Event. The Brain Busters lost the first fall after not following directions from an enraged Heenan, who left the ringside area. The Brain Busters won the second fall, after which Heenan fired them during a backstage interview. The Rockers would go on to win the third and final fall of the match.
Bobby Heenan replaced Tully Blanchard at the Survivor Series, because he failed a drug test. Arn Anderson left the federation more or less immediately after the pay-per-view. Arn returned to the NWA in December, but they refused to rehire Blanchard when news of his failed drug test became known, thus ending the Brain Busters for good. There list of accomplishments and Championships (according to Wiki) are as follows:
National Wrestling Alliance
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (2 times)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Tag Team of the Year (1989)
PWI ranked them # 15 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003
World Wrestling Federation
WWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time)
Brain Busters (Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard): This was a Tag Team to me, that I never remembered growing up, because ultimately they weren't around long enough once I got interested into the sport to remember them. However, they do deserve mention.
While they only won the Tag Team Championships on 1 occasion within the W.W.F., they were 2 of the Four Horsemen, and I believe that could carry over for the W.W.E. to now possibly consider them for induction to the Hall of Fame. Arn Anderson may very well warrant his own single induction into the Hall of Fame, but if not, I would suggest that a group effort with Tully Blanchard, or even other 4-Horsemen would be how it'll get done.
That is mainly my reasoning for bringing these two up in the mention of being Worthy or not. Do you feel the Brain Busters were a Tag Team, worthy enough to warrant being in the Hall of Fame, because of the members of the team, more than the accomplishments they've made? OR, do you believe Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard will make the Hall of Fame, seperate? What are your thoughts and opinions on the Brain Busters, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard being a Hall of Fame inductee? Worthy or Not?