Four Knight members Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard met this week on the “ARN” podcast. They talked about their days at the NWA, their departure from the NWA, their move to the WWF as the Brain Busters, their separation, Arn’s return to the NWA / WCW and much more.
Here are some highlights:
Tully Blanchard talked about him and Arn Anderson when they said that Bobby Heenan would be their manager in the WWF: “That was the ingredient that was very promising. Bobby was a longtime friend because my dad (Joe Blanchard) would bring Nick Bockwinkel and Bobby was Nick Bockwinkel’s manager for all those years for AWA. I got to know him a little bit, but it was a nice experience. What would probably have been a better experience for us is if he had worked with us every night. He worked with us on TV and on major shows, but he didn’t travel with us during the week, which was a good thing. Sure, Arn and I could work without a manager, but there could have been a lot more entertainment behind the scenes if he was there all the time, instead of just on TV. “
Tully talked about fighting the Rockers and Hulk Hogan’s reaction to it: “I know that when Arn and I first fought in the Garden (Madison Square Garden) against the Rockers, we had to go for a 20-minute fight. Probably the biggest tactical mistake I ever made was when I came back through the curtain, Hogan looked at me and said, ‘What should I do now?’ I said something smart and I don’t remember exactly what it was, but we were never at the main event again. We were never on another Hogan card. But they ran three cities a night, so we became the main event guys in the third cities and the third started making money instead of losing money. So it wasn’t a bad thing, but we were making the same money that we made for Crockett, so it was a sideways move. “
Tully was asked about his conversation with Vince when The Horseman was introduced to the WWE Hall of Fame: “There really was no conversation with Vince. I know we took a picture with him in his dressing room that I have on the wall, he holding four fingers. This is a very good one. So you have HHH and Shawn Michaels holding four fingers on each other. I have this photo too. I remember we were standing in the hall. Vince was addressing, I think, all of us. He said that some of you, absorb all that is happening because you will never come back. I thought he was talking to me because everyone came back. “
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