10 Things You Didn't Know About The Four Horsemen

3. The Midnight Express Almost Became Horsemen

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Professional wrestling is chock-full of 'what could have beens', from dropped feuds to rumoured gimmicks and beyond. The Four Horsemen are not free of this trope, and the faction's great 'what if?' centres around what would of undoubtedly been the best in-ring version of The Four Horsemen possible.

As 1989 became 1990, the group had been reduced to just Ric Flair and Arn Anderson. Tully's personal demons had gotten the better of him, and all of a sudden there was space for two bodies in a revamped Horsemen. The Midnight Express (then made up of Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) were rumoured to get the bump, a plan corroborated by Jim Cornette in 2020, but for some reason it never happened. Wrestling fans were robbed of what could have been the elite version of an already elite faction.

The Midnight Express-version of The Four Horsemen was agreed, but Jim Herd changed his mind and decided to move forward without the group. As the story goes, this was the straw that broke the camel's back, although in this case the 'camel' is 'Jim Cornette and Stan Lane'. They soon left WCW, Flair went off to WWE, leaving Arn and Bobby to have a pretty darn successful run as a duo and within the Dangerous Alliance.

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