10 Failed Attempts To Recreate Great Wrestling Stables

With Ric Flair the world's champion, Barry Windham the United States champion and Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard the reigning tag-team team champions, the most celebrated version of the Horseman were at their performative apex in 1988. But it wasn't to last.

When Anderson and Blanchard jumped to the WWF over a pay discrepancy in September, the Horseman were scrambling for replacements. Firing manager JJ Dillon, who in reality was on his way to the WWF for an office job, the remaining Horseman's contracts were purchased by longtime associate Hiro Matsuda.

Rechristened the Yamazaki Cooporation, Flair and Windham were joined by Butch Reed and Barry's anemic younger brother in a futile attempt to add continuity.

However, the older Windham himself would soon leave for the WWF, to be replaced in the cooperation by the former Freebird Michael Hayes.

By May of 1989, Flair was the only remaining Horseman in the futile attempt to keep the heel stable going before Matsuda himself parted ways with JCP, putting an end to the least memorable Horseman incarnation ever.

Flair would reunite with Ole, Arn Anderson and Sting in December to form a new Horseman so everyone could forget about the Yamazaki Cooporation.