Ranking 15 Four Horsemen - From Worst To Best
The Four Horsemen defined what it meant to be a wrestling stable.
Whenever the debate about greatest wrestling stables comes up, one group tends to dominate discussion, the Four Horsemen.
For almost 15 years they dominated the landscape of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), winning titles, breaking bones and leaving a trail of destruction not seen since the biblical incarnation of their oft-imitated but never replicated moniker.
Coming together in November 1985, the original incarnation included Ric Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson and Tully Blanchard (with JJ Dillion as manager). Over the course of the next 14 years some 15 in-ring competitors would officially be Horsemen, with a number of managers and associates along the way.
Who was the best Horseman? The worst? The ninth best? Finally, here is a list to end the discussion. For the sake of argument, this list will only rank the in-ring Horsemen. As such, JJ Dillion isn’t included but Sid Vicious is. If this riles anyone, I’m terribly sorry.
Not many groups command as much respect to this very day as the Four Horsemen, and for good reason. Without them, there would have been no Degeneration-X, no Evolution, no Corre...
15. Sid Vicious
This might seem like a somewhat unfair ranking for ol’ Sid, but I stand by it. The big man just doesn’t fit the Horseman bill. Almost always including technically sound wrestlers of middling size and steely-charisma as opposed to wild-eyed madness, Sid is almost the antithesis of this. He joined the group on May 11th 1990 as the muscle of the Horsemen, brought in specifically to counteract the strength of Robocop, which is a sentence I still wish wasn’t true.
His time with the group was fairly uneventful, and his membership eventually fizzled out. The only positive of his time with the group is that he was billed as being from ‘wherever he damn well pleases’, which is an excellent location that needs to be reprised.
Sid (pictured above, far left) is the worst Horseman because he doesn’t fit the Horseman ethos and was brought in for ridiculous reasons. I mean, come on, Robocop?