Alan Robert Rogowski (born September 22, 1942), better known by the
ring name
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Ole Anderson (), is an American retired
professional wrestler
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, referee, manager, and promoter. Part of the
Anderson family
The Anderson family is a group of professional wrestlers, a part fictional, part real, extended family largely consisting of brothers, cousins and children.
Gene Anderson
NWA Hall of Famer Gene Anderson (the only actual 'Anderson' of the origi ...
, Anderson was a founding member of the influential
stable
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The Four Horsemen
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Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand th ...
.
Professional wrestling career
American Wrestling Association (1967–1968)
Anderson started wrestling in 1967 in the
American Wrestling Association
The American Wrestling Association (AWA) was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that ran from 1960 until 1991. It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo. The territory was originally part o ...
(AWA) as Rock Rogowski.
Jim Crockett Promotions (1968–1970)
In mid-1968, Anderson began wrestling for the
Carolinas
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Combining Nort ...
-based
Jim Crockett Promotions
Jim Crockett Promotions Inc. is a family-owned professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, restarted by Jim Crockett's son and Jim Crockett Jr's brother, David Crockett. Founded in 1931, the promot ...
. He adopted the ring name Ole Anderson (a
play-on-words
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referring to the toxic shrub
oleander
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) and became a member of the legendary tag team called the
Minnesota Wrecking Crew
The Minnesota Wrecking Crew was originally a professional wrestling tag team that was formed by Gene and Lars Anderson but since then has featured a number of wrestlers who wrestled under the Anderson family name despite not being blood related. ...
with his
kayfabe
In professional wrestling, kayfabe, as a noun, is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. ...
brother
Gene Anderson after
Lars Anderson left the team in the late 1960s.
He appeared regularly with the promotion until September 1970.
Championship Wrestling from Florida (1971–1972)
In July 1971, Anderson began wrestling for the
Florida
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-based
Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when Eddie Graham first bought into the promotion, until 1987, when it closed down. It is also referred to as ...
promotion. During his time in Florida, Anderson held the
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship
The NWA Florida Tag Team Championship is the primary tag team title in NWA Florida Underground Wrestling. It started out in 1968 as the main tag team title in Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was ...
and
NWA Florida Television Championship
The NWA Florida Television Championship was a secondary title in Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when ...
. He left the promotion in spring 1972.
Jim Crockett Promotions / Georgia Championship Wrestling (1972–1985)
From 1972 to 1985, Anderson wrestled primarily for Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling. From the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, The Minnesota Wrecking Crew became synonymous with tag team wrestling in the Georgia and Mid-Atlantic territories by capturing the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship and the Mid-Atlantic territorial version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship 7 times each.
[ The Andersons feuded with such stars as ]Mr. Wrestling
George Burrell Woodin (July 28, 1934 – November 30, 2002) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Mr. Wrestling and Tim Woods.
Collegiate wrestling career
Woodin received a degree in agricultural engineering fr ...
and Mr. Wrestling II, Wahoo McDaniel
Edward Hugh McDaniel (June 19, 1938 – April 18, 2002) was an American Choctaw-Chickasaw professional American football player and professional wrestler better known by his ring name Wahoo McDaniel. He is notable for having held the NWA Unite ...
, Jack Brisco
Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco (September 21, 1941 – February 1, 2010) was an American amateur and professional wrestler. As an amateur for Oklahoma State, Brisco was two-time All-American and won the NCAA Division I national championship. He tu ...
, Jerry Brisco
Floyd Gerald "Jerry" Brisco (born September 19, 1946) is an American retired professional wrestler. Brisco is best known for his time in the wrestling promotion WWE, where he was a backstage producer, and, during the 1990s, an on-screen character, ...
, Dusty Rhodes
Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 11, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance, Jim Crocket ...
, Tommy Rich
Thomas Richardson (born July 26, 1956) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Tommy “Wildfire” Rich. He is a one time former National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion and Smoky Mountain Wrestling ...
, Johnny Weaver
Kenneth Eugene Weaver (November 17, 1935 – February 15, 2008) was an American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator in the National Wrestling Alliance, better known by his ring name, Johnny Weaver.
Career
1960s
Weaver's career spa ...
, Dino Bravo
Adolfo Bresciano (; August 6, 1948 – March 10, 1993) was an Italian-Canadian professional wrestler and promoter, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo ().
After training under Gino Brito, he started his career in Montreal in the 1970s, wo ...
, Paul Jones, Ric Flair
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, Greg Valentine
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Over five decades, Valentine held more than 40 championship ...
, Ricky Steamboat
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, Rufus R. Jones, The Mongols, and Thunderbolt Patterson throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.[ Behind the scenes, Anderson was also the primary booker for GCW and also had a stint booking JCP in 1981–82. For a time he even booked both companies simultaneously, often combining both rosters for supercards which were noted for offering some of the best action in the business at that time. He later left JCP to book and wrestle for GCW full-time. When Jack and Jerry Brisco sold their majority interest in the GCW ]promotion
Promotion may refer to:
Marketing
* Promotion (marketing), one of the four marketing mix elements, comprising any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or i ...
to Vince McMahon
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, Anderson resisted the change, and joined forces with longtime NWA-sanctioned promoters Fred Ward and Ralph Freed to start a new company called Championship Wrestling from Georgia
Georgia Championship Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. The promotion was affiliated with what had been the world's top sanctioning body of championship titles for decades before, the National W ...
.[
]
Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling (1985–1994)
The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (1985–1986)
In April 1985, Jim Crockett Promotions and Championship Wrestling from Georgia essentially merged. Anderson was teaming with Thunderbolt Patterson in GCW just as Marty Lunde was debuting in JCP as Arn Anderson
Martin Anthony Lunde (born September 20, 1958), better known by the ring name Arn Anderson, is an American professional wrestling road agent, author, and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a ...
. It seemed like a natural fit to put the two Andersons together, especially considering their similar facial appearance. Anderson soon turned on Thunderbolt and teamed with Arn as the Minnesota Wrecking Crew
The Minnesota Wrecking Crew was originally a professional wrestling tag team that was formed by Gene and Lars Anderson but since then has featured a number of wrestlers who wrestled under the Anderson family name despite not being blood related. ...
.
The Four Horsemen (1986–1987)
In 1986, Anderson became part of the original The Four Horsemen
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Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand th ...
, a heel stable
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, with Ric Flair
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, Arn Anderson
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, Tully Blanchard
Tully Arthur Blanchard (born January 22, 1954) is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and manager. He is best known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions and the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s as a member of ...
, and manager J. J. Dillon
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Professional wrestling career
J. J. Dillon had an extensive wrestling career. He broke into wrestling at th ...
.[ During his time in the Horsemen, Anderson feuded with ]Magnum T. A.
Terry Wayne Allen (born June 11, 1959) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Magnum T. A. Allen won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship twice and was being groomed for a potential run with the N ...
, Dusty Rhodes
Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 11, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance, Jim Crocket ...
, The Rock 'N Roll Express
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and The Road Warriors
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. Anderson was later kicked out of the group in favor of Lex Luger
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl (born June 2, 1958), better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and football player. In 2011 he began working with WWE on its wellness policy. He is best known for ...
in early 1987.[ Anderson retired in 1987, when his son, Bryant, was starting his own amateur wrestling career. Bryant later joined ]World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling, Inc. (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of Nation ...
(WCW) wrestling under the ring name of Bryant Anderson.
Tag team with Lex Luger (1988)
Anderson reappeared in 1988 when he rescued Lex Luger from a beating by their former Horsemen brethren.
The Four Horsemen (1989–1990)
Anderson returned to wrestling with WCW in 1989 to reform the Four Horsemen with Flair, Arn and Sting. They quickly kicked Sting out of the group, and Anderson retired again to manage the Horsemen, who by then also included Barry Windham
Barry Clinton Windham (born July 4, 1960) is an American retired professional wrestler. The son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan, he is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). ...
and Sid Vicious
John Simon Ritchie (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 at age 21, he remains an icon of the ...
.[
]
World Wide Wrestling /Backstage roles (1990–1995)
By 1990, he decided to wrestle in smaller local promotions such as World Wide Wrestling (WWW). He reformed the Minnesota Wrecking Crew with Burt Young aka “Paulie” or Paulie Anderson. He feuded with the companies top stars Enforcer Tortoriello, The Future Marcus Valentin, SRA Aluggi, and Bob Beatrice. The Wrecking Crew had three reigns as tag team champions defeating Poisoner Vitale and John Kuklinski twice and Lord of War Berry and Drill Sergeant Willams once. In 1995 he returned to head the booking committee for WCW, which was at that time beginning to phase out the use of the NWA name on its television programming. Appearing in the credits for WCW pay-per-view
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Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program guid ...
s under his real name, Anderson was responsible for some of the more infamous creative ideas tried by WCW. Among his creations were The Black Scorpion, which was intended to be a nemesis from Sting's past. After several miscues, the Scorpion's identity was eventually revealed as Ric Flair, in a ploy to confuse Sting and force him to lose the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the original world title of ...
back to Flair. For this, Anderson was dismissed as head booker by Herd, who despised Flair.[ In 1992, Anderson became a referee. After ]Bill Watts
William F. Watts Jr. (born May 5, 1939) is a retired American professional wrestler, promoter and former American football player. Watts garnered fame under his "Cowboy" gimmick in his wrestling career, and then as a promoter in the Mid-South Un ...
was ousted in 1993, Anderson took control of WCW.
When Eric Bischoff
Eric Aaron Bischoff (born May 27, 1955) is an American television producer, professional wrestling booker, and performer. He is best known for serving as Executive Producer and later Senior Vice President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and ...
took over control of WCW in 1994, both Anderson and his son became a casualty of Bischoff's "house cleaning" when Bischoff fired Bryant while he was training at the WCW Power Plant
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The school was founded by wrestler Jody Hamilton, who opened the training center in 1989 in Lovejoy, Georgia ...
.[ This prompted Anderson to call ]Smoky Mountain Wrestling
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promoter and head booker Jim Cornette
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to try to get his son a job. Anderson's decision to deal with Cornette, someone Bischoff was on bad terms with, on WCW property, was the factor that led to his firing. Bischoff fired Anderson over the phone, even though he spoke to Anderson face-to-face the day before. The chain of events was covered in a shoot interview by Cornette.
Retirement (1996–present)
Since that time, he has stayed away from the sport, but wrote a book on it titled ''Inside Out''. He has also hinted at having animosity with former partner and friend Ric Flair
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair has had a career spanni ...
after criticizing him for wrestling the same kind of match for years. In his WWE biography, Flair recalled that upon returning to WCW from the WWF in 1993, Ole - who was WCW's head booker at the time - asked what good he was to WCW after losing a loser-leaves-town match with Mr. Perfect on national TV. Flair took this as a personal attack and it led to his ending their friendship. In July 2007, Gerweck.net reported that Anderson has multiple sclerosis
Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most common demyelinating disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This d ...
and had gotten worse with decreased mobility and memory loss. Anderson has also been vocal about his personal issues with Vince McMahon
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, Dusty Rhodes
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, Michael Hayes, Paul Heyman
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, Eric Bischoff
Eric Aaron Bischoff (born May 27, 1955) is an American television producer, professional wrestling booker, and performer. He is best known for serving as Executive Producer and later Senior Vice President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and ...
, Tully Blanchard
Tully Arthur Blanchard (born January 22, 1954) is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and manager. He is best known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions and the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s as a member of ...
, Jim Herd
James Herd (born August 13th, 1939) is a former television production executive, Pizza Hut manager, and professional wrestling executive. Herd was the Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1988 to 1992 following Turne ...
, Roddy Piper, Bruiser Brody
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and Lex Luger
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl (born June 2, 1958), better known by the ring name Lex Luger, is an American retired professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and football player. In 2011 he began working with WWE on its wellness policy. He is best known for ...
.
On February 27, 2011, it was announced that Anderson had been nursing broken ribs due to a fall he had earlier that day, as well as a broken arm.
Bibliography
*''Inside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed Professional Wrestling'' (2003)
Championships and accomplishments
*American Wrestling Association
The American Wrestling Association (AWA) was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that ran from 1960 until 1991. It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo. The territory was originally part o ...
**AWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship
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(2 times
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)
**AWA Midwest Tag Team Championship
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Title history
See also
*American Wrestling Asso ...
(2 times
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) – with Ox Baker
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(1), and The Claw (1)
*Championship Wrestling from Florida
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**NWA Florida Television Championship
The NWA Florida Television Championship was a secondary title in Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when ...
( 1 time)
**NWA Florida Tag Team Championship
The NWA Florida Tag Team Championship is the primary tag team title in NWA Florida Underground Wrestling. It started out in 1968 as the main tag team title in Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was ...
( 1 time) – with Ron Garvin
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*Georgia Championship Wrestling
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**NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
**NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship
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The title was revived in 1998 by Music City Wrestling ...
( 17 times) – with Gene Anderson (7), Ivan Koloff
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Early life
Perras was b ...
(5), Lars Anderson (2), Rene Goulet
Robert Bédard (July 12, 1932 – May 25, 2019) was a Canadian professional wrestler. better known by his ring name, the "Number One Frenchman" Rene Goulet.
Early life
Robert Bedard was born on July 12, 1932 in Quebec City and played hocke ...
(1), Ernie Ladd
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(1), and Jerry Brisco
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(1)
** NWA Georgia Television Championship (2 times
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)
**NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship
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(1 time)
**NWA Macon Tag Team Championship
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The Macon Coliseum is a multi-purpose ...
( 1 time) – with Gene Anderson
**NWA National Tag Team Championship
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( 1 time) – with Thunderbolt Patterson (1)
**NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship ''(Georgia version)'' (1 time) – with Gene Anderson
*Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
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/ Jim Crockett Promotions
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/ World Championship Wrestling
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** NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time)
**NWA National Tag Team Championship
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( 1 time) – with Arn Anderson
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**NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship
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( 3 times) – with Gene Anderson
** NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship ( 4 times) – with Gene Anderson
** NWA World Tag Team Championship ''(Mid-Atlantic version)'' ( 8 times) – with Gene Anderson (7), and Stan Hansen
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Hansen is known for his Glossary of professional wrestling terms#S, stiff wrestling style, which he attributes to his poor eyesigh ...
(1)
**WCW Hall of Fame
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(Class of 1994
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)
*National Wrestling Alliance
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Founded in 1948, the NWA ...
**NWA Hall of Fame
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(class of 2010)
*''Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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''
**PWI Tag Team of the Year
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Unlike other wrestling ...
(1975, 1977) – with Gene Anderson
**PWI ranked him #74 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years
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" in 2003
*Southeastern Championship Wrestling
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** NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship ''(Northern Division)'' ( 1 time)NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Title history
At wrestling-titles.com
*''Wrestling Observer Newsletter
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Founded in print in 1982 by Dave Meltzer, the ''Wrestling Observer'' website merged with Bryan Alvarez's ''Figure Four We ...
''
** Tag Team of the Year (1982) with Stan Hansen
See also
*Anderson family
The Anderson family is a group of professional wrestlers, a part fictional, part real, extended family largely consisting of brothers, cousins and children.
Gene Anderson
NWA Hall of Famer Gene Anderson (the only actual 'Anderson' of the origi ...
*The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Christian scriptures, first appearing in the Book of Revelation, a piece of apocalypse literature written by John of Patmos.
Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand th ...
*The Minnesota Wrecking Crew
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References
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