10 Wrestling Debuts That Changed Everything

10. The Four Horsemen

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Anyone who has ever purchased an nWo t-shirt, crotch-chopped their way to suspension in school or generally acted like a rebellious heel group with friends owes a ton to The Four Horsemen. It was they who set the template for what a 'bad guy stable' should look like in pro wrestling.

Without them, the nWo and D-Generation X wouldn't even exist.

Ric Flair, Arn and Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard and J.J Dillon were revolutionaries who pioneered what it meant to be a cocky, cheating, babyface-bashing collective who looked good and wrestled even better. They exuded anti-authority before that was even in vogue in wrestling circles.

When The Horsemen debuted in 1985, they were right on time to give the NWA that core gathering of credible heels it needed. Others watched, and others borrowed from their template religiously - what were the New World Order and DX if not modern updates on that original formula?

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