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Martin Anthony Lunde (born September 20, 1958) better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American professional wrestler and author. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, The Four Horsemen, in the NWA/WCW. He currently serves as the senior producer for WWE's Raw brand. On March 31, 2012, Anderson was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Horsemen.
Lunde began his career in early 1982, spending much of the year wrestling in various independent wrestling companies across the United States. By the middle of 1983, he made his way to Southeastern Championship Wrestling, an NWA affiliated promotion operating out of Tennessee and Alabama. Taking the name of "Super Olympia", Lunde soon became a member of Ron Fuller's Stud Stable before the year was out. Lunde saw success in the tag team ranks by winning the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship three times with Mr. Olympia and once with Buddy Rose throughout 1984. By the end of the year, however, Lunde left the company and joined Mid South Wrestling based out of Shreveport. Lunde's time in Mid South was coming to an end and during a TV taping the Junk Yard Dog mentioned to Bill Watts, the owner of Mid South Wrestling, that Lunde looked like an Anderson. Watts called Jim Crockett and convinced him to book Lunde.
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time with a professional career that spans 40 years. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and is noted for his lengthy and highly decorated tenures with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (now known as WWE). Flair is officially recognized by WWE, TNA and PWI as a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion (seven-time NWA Champion, seven-time WCW Champion and two-time WWF Champion) although his actual tally of World Championship reigns varies by source—Flair considers himself a 21-time world champion.
In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he also had two stints as a booker—in 1989–1990 and 1994. Flair also became the first and only man to have won the WWF Championship in a Royal Rumble match, when he accomplished this in the 1992 edition of the event. In 2012, Flair became the first ever double inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, first inducted in 2008 for his individual career, and for a second time in 2012 as a member of the Four Horsemen. He is also an NWA Hall of Famer (class of 2008). Flair's hair styles and mannerisms are based on those of Buddy Rogers, who previously and famously used the "Nature Boy" gimmick in the 1950s and '60s. Coincidentally, Flair also followed Rogers in becoming the second man to win both the WWF and the NWA World Heavyweight Championships.
Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie 10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979) was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols. In 2006 he was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Sex Pistols.
Sid Vicious was born John Simon Ritchie in Lewisham, South East London, to John and Anne Ritchie (née McDonald). His mother dropped out of school early due to a lack of academic success and went on to join the RAF, where she met her husband-to-be, Ritchie's father. He was a guardsman at Buckingham Palace and a semi-professional trombone player on the London Jazz scene. Shortly after John's birth, he and his mother moved to Ibiza, where they expected to be joined by his father who, it was planned, would support them financially in the meantime. However, after the first few pay cheques failed to arrive, Anne realised that he would not be coming. Anne later married Christopher Beverley, a middle class man in 1965, before setting up a family home back in Kent. Ritchie took his stepfather's surname and was known as John Beverley.
Actors: Eddie Guerrero (actor), Bill Goldberg (actor), Gerald Brisco (actor), Jamie Gibson (actor), Shane Douglas (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Ted DiBiase (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Scott Bigelow (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Marcus Bagwell (actor), Jimmy Hart (actor), Bret Hart (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Jimmy Hart (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Bret Hart (actor), Scott Hall (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Shane Douglas (actor), Sid Eudy (actor), Chris Benoit (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Marcus Bagwell (actor), Bill Goldberg (actor), Peter Gruner (actor), Eddie Guerrero (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor),
Plot: The 32-person Tournament for the World Title concludes with two Semi-Final matches between Jeff Jarrett/Chris Benoit and Bret Hart/Sting. The winners face each other in the Finals for the coveted Championship. The Revolution and The Filthy Animals face off in a Six-person Tag Team match: Perry Saturn, Dean Malenko & Asya (w/ Shane Douglas) vs. Eddie Guerrero, Billy Kidman & Torrie Wilson (w/ Konnan). Other matches include: Goldberg vs. Sid Vicious in an I Quit match, David Flair vs. Kimberly, Scott Hall vs. Booker T. for the United States and World Television titles, Meng vs. The Total Package (w/ Elizabeth), Berlyn (w/ The Wall) vs. Vampiro (w/ Jerry Only) in a Dog Collar match, Curt Hennig vs. Buff Bagwell in a Retirement match, Norman Smiley vs. Brian Knobs (w/ Jimmy Hart) to determine the first World Hardcore Champion, and Evan Karagias (w/ Madusa) vs. The Disco Inferno (w/ Tony Marinara) for the Cruiserweight title.
Keywords: dog-collar, retirement, screaming-man, tournament, world-championship-wrestling, wrestlingActors: Arn Anderson (actor), Hulk Hogan (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Chris Benoit (actor), Dionicio Castellanos (actor), Jim Duggan (actor), Mike Durham (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Michael Buffer (actor), Oscar Gutiérrez (actor), Scott Hall (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Dean Malenko (actor),
Plot: The Outsiders & Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage, Sting & Lex Luger, WCW U.S. Title: Konnan vs. Ric Flair, WCW Cruiserweight Title: Dean Malenko vs. Disco Inferno, The Giant & Kevin Sullivan vs. Arn Anderson & Chris Benoit, Dog Collar Match: The Nasty Boys vs. Public Enemy, Taped Fist Match: Diamond Dallas Page vs. Jim Duggan, Carson City Dollar Match: John Tenta vs. Big Bubba, Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Psichosis, Steve McMichael vs. Joe Gomez
Keywords: beach, wcw, wrestlingActors: Hulk Hogan (actor), Charles Ashenoff (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Ted DiBiase (actor), Chris Benoit (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), Juventud Guerrera (actor), Sal Guerrero (actor), Oscar Gutiérrez (actor), Scott Hall (actor), Jimmy Hart (actor), Booker Huffman (actor),
Genres: Action, Sport,Actors: Ted Turner (producer), Chris Benoit (actor), Paul Wight (actor), Eric Bischoff (producer), Arn Anderson (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Eddie Guerrero (actor), Oscar Gutiérrez (actor), Scott Hall (actor), Hulk Hogan (actor), Booker Huffman (actor), Lash Huffman (actor), Jeff Jarrett (actor), Chris Jericho (actor), Dean Malenko (actor),
Plot: WCW Title: Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage, WCW Tag Team Titles: Harlem Heat vs. The Outsiders, WCW Cruiserweight Title: Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko, Syxx vs. Chris Jericho, Lex Luger vs. Arn Anderson, Dallas Page vs. Eddie Guerrero, The Giant vs. Jeff Jarrett, Chris Benoit & Steve McMichael vs. The Faces of Fear
Keywords: wrestlingActors: Charles Ashenoff (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Michael Buffer (actor), Marcus Bagwell (actor), Jim Duggan (actor), Mike Durham (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Bill DeMott (actor), Eddie Guerrero (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor), Booker Huffman (actor),
Genres: Action, Sport,Actors: Dallas Page (actor), Darren Matthews (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Gene Okerlund (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Jim Duggan (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), Jimmy Hart (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Booker Huffman (actor), Lash Huffman (actor), Nick Patrick (actor),
Genres: Action, Sport,Actors: Ed Leslie (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Lash Huffman (actor), Hulk Hogan (actor), Booker Huffman (actor), Jim Duggan (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), Jimmy Hart (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor), Darren Matthews (actor),
Genres: Sport,Actors: Marc Mero (actor), Gene Okerlund (actor), Ed Leslie (actor), Terry Brunk (actor), Eric Bischoff (actor), Jerry Lynn (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Tonga Fifita (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Jimmy Hart (actor), Bobby Heenan (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor), Hulk Hogan (actor), Dallas Page (actor),
Plot: WCW Title: Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant, WCW Television Title: Dallas Page vs. Johnny B. Badd, Monster Truck Challenge: Hulk Hogan vs. The Giant, Randy Savage vs. Lex Luger, Sting & Ric Flair vs. Brian Pillman & Arn Anderson, Lex Luger vs. Meng, Randy Savage vs. The Zodiac, Sabu vs. Mr. JL, Kurasawa vs. Hawk
Keywords: african-american, betrayal, bodyguard, detroit-michigan, doom, dungeon, east-indian, face-paint, falling-off-a-roof, fireActors: Jim Ross (actor), Dusty Rhodes (actor), Ric Flair (actor), Larry Pfohl (actor), Joe Laurinaitis (actor), Mike Hegstrand (actor), Teddy Long (actor), Arn Anderson (actor), Earl Hebner (actor), James E. Cornette (actor), Steve Borden (actor), Bobby Eaton (actor), Mike Kimmel (actor), Tony Schiavone (actor), Mike Rotunda (actor),
Plot: This video features highlights of some of the matches from the Third Annual Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup tag team tournament. The tournament took place from April 22-April 23, 1988. Most of the matches of this large tournament are left out, and a lot of the matches are edited pretty short to fit on a two hour tape. Teams included on the tape are The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal), The Midnight Express (Eaton and Lane), The Four Horsemen (Anderson and Blanchard), The Fantastics (Rogers and Fulton), Lex Luger and Sting, The Jive Tones (Whatley and Conway), Ivan Koloff and Dick Murdoch, Larry Zbyszko and Al Perez, The Varsity Club (Rotunda and Steiner), The Powers of Pain (Warlord and Barbarian), Jimmy Valiant and Mighty Wilbur, The Sheepherders (Miller and Williams), Kendall Windham and The Italian Stallion, and Ron Simmons and Steve Williams. I won't tell the matches as that will give away the winners (since this was a single elimination tournament). Other matches on the card are NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair vs Nikita Koloff, The Midnight Rider (Dusty Rhodes) vs J.J. Dillon in a bloody Texas Bullrope Match, and Jimmy Garvin vs Kevin Sullivan in a Prince of Darkness Death Match (both wrestlers had hoods over their heads and couldn't see). Finally, the tape goes back to January 24, 1988 for the finals of the Third Annual Bunkhouse Stampede. Battle royales had been held at several house shows in the weeks leading up to this event, and the winners of each battle royale entered this battle royale final, held inside a steel cage. The match is joined in progress on the tape, so I don't know if some wrestlers had already been eliminated. The wrestlers on the tape are Arn Anderson, Road Warrior Animal, The Barbarian, Tully Blanchard, Ivan Koloff, Lex Luger, The Warlord, and the winner of the first two Bunkhouse Stampedes, Dusty Rhodes.
Keywords: pro-wrestling, wrestling