10 Things You Didn't Know About The Four Horsemen

10. Before The Horsemen, There Was The Anderson Family

The origins of The Four Horsemen can be traced back to another wrestling team with a tremendous name; The Minnesota Wrecking Crew. It all started, coincidentally enough, in Minnesota in the late '60s with a tag team made up of 'brothers' Lars and Gene Anderson. The years passed and Lars and Gene were replaced by another pair of Anderson 'brothers' that might be more familiar to modern wrestling fans; Ole and Arn.

Arn had been a cousin from time to time (wrestling lineage can be quite malleable), but the duo soon became a trio when they aligned with a third Anderson cousin, albeit one with a different surname. I'm talking, of course, about 'The Nature Boy' himself, Ric Flair. The trio initially came together over a shared hatred of Dusty Rhodes, a common theme throughout the history of The Four Horsemen.

Ric Flair obviously isn't related to the Andersons, none of whom are actually related to each other. Pro wrestling families, everybody! The Anderson wrestling legacy is continued to this very day by current tag team icon Karl Anderson. Basically, if you're double tough and can hit a sweet spinebuster, chances are that you are a wrestling Anderson.