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The tenth match was a steel cage match between The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) and the team of Ivan and Nikita Koloff for the NWA World Tag Team Championship. The match started back and forth. The Rock 'n' Roll Express had the advantage over Ivan after a dropkick from Gibson. The Koloffs fought back, and dominated Gibson.
They held the titles until January 1986, when Ole was injured in a six-man tag team match against Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors, forcing them to vacate the Championship. [18] [56] After recuperating from his injury, in March-April 1986, Anderson wrestled in Japan with All Japan Pro Wrestling as part of its Champion Carnival tour.
Dusty Rhodes would go on to win the NWA TV title, then the title became the NWA World TV title after JCP purchased Ole Anderson's Championship Wrestling from Georgia in March, 1985. After the buyout, Ole would turn heel and join up with his kayfabe brother Arn Anderson after his arrival in JCP and both help Arn in his feud with Manny Fernandez ...
The Starrcade show featured a number of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The Four Horsemen is an American professional wrestling stable that originally consisted of Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Tully Blanchard.. The stable originated in Jim Crockett Promotions as part of Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling and later World Championship Wrestling for much of the 1980s and 1990s.
Dusty Rhodes had been teaming with Magnum T. A. in the NWA for most of 1986. They were battling The Four Horsemen and were scheduled for a cage match against Tully Blanchard and Ole Anderson on October 24, 1986. Magnum had a car wreck that ended his career before the match and Jim Crockett, Jr. needed a replacement.
Tully Blanchard (c) vs. Dusty Rhodes in a Steel cage match for the NWA World Television Championship [1] 2 The Great American Bash (1986) July–August 1986 A tour of 13 shows around the south and eastern parts of the country Dusty Rhodes vs. Ric Flair (c) for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [1] 3 The Great American Bash (1987) July 1987
Ole noticed that Lunde's style was a no nonsense approach in the ring and specialized in working over a part of an opponent's body throughout the match, much like Ole himself. Anderson agreed to work with Lunde, helping to hone his capabilities, and re-formed the Minnesota Wrecking Crew with Lunde replacing Gene Anderson and taking on the name ...