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Tully Arthur Blanchard (born January 22, 1954) is a Canadian-American professional wrestler and manager. He is best known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions and the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s as a member of The Four Horsemen and The Brain Busters .
The first match of the pay-per-view was a non-title tag team match between the WWF Tag Team Champions The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard), accompanied to the ring by Bobby Heenan, and The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart). In the middle of the match, Anderson tried to interfere, causing all four men to fight in the ring.
The SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship was the top singles title of Southwest Championship Wrestling for most of its existence. It was established as the SCW Southwest Television Championship in 1978 and was renamed in February 1979, and it lasted until the promotion was sold to Texas All-Star Wrestling in 1985, at which point the title was abandoned.
Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard left JCP for the WWF after their title loss to the Midnight Express, joining manager Bobby Heenan and becoming The Brain Busters. Nikita Koloff would take a sabbatical due to the illness of his wife Mandy (who would pass away in 1989) and miss a match at Starrcade with his kayfabe uncle Ivan Koloff in his feud ...
Street Fight: 11:50: 9: Tully Blanchard (with J. J. Dillon) defeated Dusty Rhodes (c) First Blood match for the NWA World Television Championship: 7:30: 10: The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) (with Paul Ellering) defeated The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey) (with Jim Cornette and Big Bubba Rogers) Skywalkers match: 7:00: 11
However, because of a particularly bloody match between Tully Blanchard and "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan (which USA refused to air), the inability of the promotion to keep paying USA the $7,000 per week to keep the time slot, and a monetary offer made to the cable channel by WWF owner Vince McMahon to replace Southwest Championship Wrestling with his ...
Power and Glory would split after the events of SummerSlam; Paul Roma departed WWF in October 1991, took some time off, then moved to WCW and joined the Four Horsemen (instead of Tully Blanchard, who was offered but refused due to low pay) in 1993, and Hercules would also move to WCW in early 1992 and become "The Super Invader" before heading ...
The participants were Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson, The Barbarian, The Warlord, Dusty Rhodes, Ivan Koloff, Lex Luger and Road Warrior Animal. Animal eliminated first Koloff over the top of the cage, and then Warlord through the cage door, but was himself eliminated by The Barbarian after a Big Boot .