Tully Blanchard on Crockett Promotions! 

+cKreepy Jones Yeah because most promoters kids stunk up the place , Mike and Chris Von Erich , Eric Watts , George Gulas etc

How is he underrated?

I don’t understand your comment. He was a main event singles wrestler before going to Crockett. When he joined he went into a feud with Dusty (the top baby face). Then he joined Arn and had a long run with the tag belts. They even had the tag belts in the WWF for a time. Cornette has stated that they made way more money then the Midnight Express and the Midnight wasn’t cheap. So, saying he is underrated just isn’t accurate. If anything he got every bit out of his smaller (compared to other wrestlers) frame. One of the best talkers of his era. Arn and Tully were a couple of the very few wrestlers who did their own talking after being given a manager. Also, they wrestled under their own names as champions in WCW/Crockett. Giving them a tag team gimmick would have damaged what they had built. I can’t think of another team that did that. Even Dusty and Magnum were known as America’s Team. Of course they were the Brainbusters in the WWF but that was what Vince always did.

@@robschumann9665 Agreed. Tully had a Stellar career, and as you stated, he Killed it for a guy his size.

Agreed when Ole left they were the best 4horsemen, Barry was way better than Lex was, and Lex was clumsy.

@@mykejohnson582 Agreed!

All the way

@@mykejohnson582 Lex was better than Sid

I'll never forget that one cover of Pro Wrestling Illustrated with Ric, Arn, Tully, and Barry (along with J.J.) with all of the major championship belts. God, what a time to be a fan.

"If you Wheel Gordon Solie".........Dusty did have a way with words and pronunciations and thrown in that lisp and boy howdy you had Vintage Dusty

Jonathan Turbide Good point ....always hard to pinpoint a "best ever" but your pick has to be included on that "list"....Cheers

+Jonathan Turbide I swear those guys hated each other.

***** The cocaine problem surely didn't help Tully's argument either....he was a bit out of control back when he was "let go" by then WWF....he has admitted this on numerous occasions so to now hear him say he was NEVER rehired by another promotion isn't all true on many levels and him being such a crusader on his faith I'd think he'd "hear" what he is saying as well.....just my take.....awaits the onslaught that will be coming my way.....Cheers All

Jonathan Turbide Thanks Jonathan, much appreciated! I would like to think that at some point Tully has over the years remembered his own drug use when hearing of yet another former wrestler dying at a fairly young age and thinking to himself what a blessing it might have been after all to get out of the business back in the day....who really knows. Cheers man

I hated him the most lol

Amen

Amen

Tully created heat from the fans. Benoit was a great in ring talent. His mic skills were sub par. Randy Orton reminds me of Tully

+solomon hui I agree Orton does remind me of Tully also. Great worker and heat getting machine

Benoit had no heelish properties .

+Matthew Collins Orton definitely has asshole written across his face like Tully did but he is so damn big he doesn't have that " little bastard who does he think he is " quality

To me, there were only two iterations of the horsemen that appeared to actually gel as a cohesive team: the original with Ole, and Barry Windham. The original 3 of Flair, Blanchard and Arn were the de facto non-negotiable parts of that faction. The 4th kept changing, but Barry & Ole were the only ones that seemed to me to be great fit. Luger didn't. Benoit (though I truly liked his in-ring work) didn't. Pillman was okay, just not great yet. Mongo was a travesty (rest his soul) as a wrestler in general.

He probably would have been if Flair had not become the face of the company at the same time.

mightyblack1 abso friggin lutely

Had Magnum TA won the title it might have happened

Ric Flair held too many deserving people back

I think it was the drugs and maybe he just talked too much. Dusty wanted him gone, WWF didn't want him but they wanted Arn to stay. Then WCW just took Arn back but not Tully.

He only yelled " Yes "

Replace Luger with Barry Windham and your statement is accurate.

@@patrickcleary5949 Windham is not THE TOTAL PACKAGE!

He preaches a lot on his faith with God inside many prisons and such...not really sure on the scope of where he goes as far as States and cities....I'm guessing if googled something would pop up ....Cheers

metalbornmetalbred I'm probably thinking he lives "close by" to be around his kids when they were growing up. As the years have gone by they all have obviously figured out a way to make this situation work....but I'm sure you are right about the awkwardness part, at least in the beginning. Cheers

His Daughter got to be a World Champion on Impact.

I thought Windham did a pretty good job being a heel as part of the Horsemen. That's actually my favorite incarnation besides the original version with Ole.

The biggest crime was Crockett letting Ted Dibiase go to the WWF, because from what I understand they had always planned on a Flair / Luger program from day one so he was eventually going to split from them. Dibiase would have been great in that spot even more so than Luger. Gino might have been even better had he been alive by that point. Also dont laugh but I think David Von Erich would have been great in that role as well. But I agree, Windham was a better face.

Fans like to hear stories about Lex.

Well also there has been some talk in the past about him having a bad attitude in the locker room. But yeah I've also heard as many good things about him as bad

please don't

They already had this in NXT , with Charlotte and 3 others , Google it.

I totally agree. Don't get me wrong, Windham was an awesome talent, but I always saw him as a face, never a heel and certainly not a horseman.

Yeah basically he looked good in a suit when he was with them. And I did like him as a heel in late 92 and 93, but in 1988 it seemed like he was just shoved in there almost like it was a last minute decision. Although his in ring talent made him passable. But definately didn't have the heel quality that Ole or even Luger had and certainly not the promo skills of Ole.

What do you mean?

like brain damage?

no dusty rhodes was in florida in 84 n didnt get 2 jcp until late 84 maybe august. ric flair DID NOT run thru 84 as champion he lost to kerry von erich in may and von erich reigned for 3 weeks. ric ran thru 85 completely as champion