10 WWE Wrestlers Who Got Buried Because Of Their Tag Partner

10. The Brain Busters

After founding The Four Horsemen and ruling over the tag division in Jim Crockett Promotions, Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson jumped ship to the WWF in late 1988, spending a year there in total where they had some gripping encounters with The Rockers and won the WWF World Tag Team Championships.

But after discovering they weren’t being paid as much as they were promised when they first signed, they negotiated with WCW to return and reunite the Horsemen. They gave their notice to the WWF after verbally agreeing to deals worth up to $750,000 each with WCW. Then, coincidentally or otherwise, Tully failed a random WWF drug test shortly after notifying Vince McMahon they were leaving.

Word got back to WCW about the drug test failure, with the $750,000 deals subsequently falling through. It meant Arn had to sign a deal for considerably less, with Tully refusing to sign the same deal if it meant he would be paid less. It brought an end to their long partnership and caused a major rift between the two for years.

Tully has spoken about the knock-on effect his drug test failure had on Arn, saying “The most tragic thing about that is that it affected Arn. That’s my biggest regret. Not that I lost a job but it affected him, and I was sitting at home.”