10 Things You Didn't Know About The Four Horsemen

2. WCW Continually Tried To Kill The Group

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It shouldn't be a shock to hear that WCW tried time and time again to kill off one of the promotion's most popular acts. Self-sabotage really is a skill, after all.

When Arn and Tully left for WWE in 1988 the group found itself in limbo, a void that it struggled to recover from. This was when the group really began to cycle through members, so WCW's lack of enthusiasm towards the group can maybe be understood. When WCW tried to repackage Flair as a modern-day Spartacus, the proposal was made with the Four Horsemen well and truly in the rearview mirror. Jim Herd's obsession with modernising the timeless Flair and moving on from the Horsemen directly led to the Nature Boy turning up in WWE in 1991.

The most egregious example of WCW trying to bury its most credible group came in 1997. The Horsemen were feuding with the nWo, and Kevin Nash and company took to the ring for a memorable promo segment that parodied the Horsemen in a most offensive manner, poking run at Arn Anderson's recent retirement and battles with alcoholism, among other things. The Horsemen were made to look utterly toothless in the face of the poison that was eating WCW alive.

Did Flair and his men ever get revenge on Big Sexy? If you're even asking that question, you obviously aren't familiar with WCW. The segment led to a WarGames match at Fall Brawl, a match won by the nWo after Curt Hennig turned on the Horsemen. Truthfully, this was the final nail in the coffin.

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