4. The Four Horsemen Break Dusty Rhodes Arm (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KCuwQrsmw There have been countless stables in the history of wrestling, but none have been more infamous than The Four Horsemen. Ole & Arn Anderson, Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard were real life friends together in the NWA and at the end of one TV taping, with time running out, they were all thrown together in a single interview segment. Arn Anderson ad-libbed the phrase, The only time this much havoc had been wreaked by this few a number of people, you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! and The Four Horsemen were born. But every villain needs a foil, and the Horsemens most storied rivalry was with Dusty Rhodes. Having previously broken Dustys ankle in an in-ring attack, Dusty gained revenge by attacking Blanchard at the end of a match to help set up their clash at Starrcade 86 for Dustys World Television Title. Dusty crashed a steel chair over Blanchards leg before applying Flairs finishing move, the figure four leglock. Incensed by this, a Horsemen style attack on a Horseman, the four decided to seek revenge in the most brutal way possible. Deciding to record the entire event on a camcorder, cutting edge technology of the time and a sign of the Horsemens collective wealth, they followed Rhodes as he drove along, and when he pulled into a car park, their time to strike had come. Jumping him from behind as he got out of his car, they tied him up to a parked truck and broke his arm using a baseball bat. It was vicious, it was brutal and it was shocking. And unlike so many contrived storylines of today where a private conversation happens right in front of a cameraman, this was filmed by the perpetrators themselves, making the pre-meditated nature of the attack all the more apparent. This continued the gripping feud between Rhodes and the Horsemen and continued the build up to Rhodes v Blanchard at Starrcade 1986, as well as adding another layer to the Horsemen v Dusty & Friends feud which continued into the summer of the following year, culminating in the first ever War Games match at the Great American Bash tour.
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