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| Arn Anderson Height: 6’0” Weight: 255 lbs. Real name: Martin "Marty" Lunde Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina (billed from Minneapolis, Minnesota) Pro debut: January 1982 Finishing move: Spinebuster, Gourdbuster (Inverted suplex slam) Other aliases: Marty Lunde (NWA), Super Olympia (NWA Southeast), "The Enforcer" Career highlights: NWA National Tag Team Champion (w/Ole Anderson), NWA Southeast Tag Team Champion (4), NWA World Tag Team Champion (3), NWA World TV Champion (3), WCW World Tag Team Champion (3), WCW World TV Champion (2), WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/Tully Blanchard) Trained by: Ted Allen Known as "Double-A," "The Enforcer," or "Arn Andersmooth," Anderson is considered by some as one of the top 500 tag team wrestlers in professional wrestling. He held the NWA Tag Team Championship belts twice with different members of Ron Fuller's Stud Stable in Southeast Championship Wrestling in 1983 & 1984. He would become a founding member of the Four Horsemen with Tully Blanchard, Ole Anderson, James J. Dillon and Ric Flair in the NWA and was in each of the group's incarnations over the years. He was also a member of the Dangerous Alliance in WCW, and claims he made evey member of that group perkier. He was a member of the Old Age Outlaws in WCW in 2000 that battled the nWo. He also formed the Enforcers with Larry Zbyszko in WCW. Along with a DDT for a finishing maneuver, Anderson utilized a familiar array of holds and throws during his career, highlighted by his powerful left-handed fake punch and a spinebuster. He was renowned for his ability to do interviews to further the storylines he participated in. His ability to improvise in interviews allowed him to coin the "Four Horsemen" moniker for the eventual stable, as he likened their coming to wrestle at an event and the aftermath of their wrath as being akin to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the name stuck, although he would later state that the original name he wanted for the group, "The Big Slammers", would have gone over better. Anderson retired from wrestling in 1997 due to extensive neck and upper back injuries and is currently working as a Road Agent for WWE. He does show up from time to time on WWE television trying to, with the help of other WWE management, pull apart brawls. Soon after the WCW/ECW Invasion storyline happened, Anderson did color commentary for a WCW Heavyweight Championship match between Booker T and Buff Bagwell, which would be his only appearance as a commentator in the WWE. During WrestleMania X8, he made a brief in-ring appearance during a match between Ric Flair and The Undertaker, delivering his signature spinebuster to the Undertaker. Several months later he attempted to help Flair gain sole ownership of the WWE during a match with Vince McMahon, but backed down from a confrontation with Brock Lesnar, who entered the ring to assist McMahon. Anderson made a special appearance at the October 2006 RAW Family Reunion special, in which he was in Ric Flair's corner for his match against Mitch of the Spirit Squad. Arn was in the corner of Ric Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, Dusty Rhodes, and Ron Simmons at Survivor Series 2006, where the four faced The Spirit Squad. He was ejected from the arena during the match due to excessive interference. |