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The Andersons decide to exact a little revenge of their own by attacking young Sam Houston, who had participated in the earlier attack on them. Tully Blanchard had just defeated Houston when this incident took place. This marks the beginning of the alliance between the Andersons and Blanchard, which eventually included Ric Flair and became the Four Horsemen. Ole and Arn Anderson narrate this clip during an interview with Tony Shiavone.
It has been said here and other places that JJ Dillon came up with the name "The Four Horsemen", but Arn Anderson tells a different story. In his autobiography, "Arn Anderson 4 Ever", he decribes the origin of the name this way: Because of TV time constraints, he, Flair, Ole and Tully were thrown into an interview together at the end of a program. During the interview, Arn ad-libbed a line that went something like, "The only time this much havoc has been wreaked by this few people - you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." The name stuck and the rest was history.
In the months to come Flair, the Andersons and Tully Blanchard would formalize their relationship and bring in Blanchard's manager, J.J. Dillon as the mastermind behind the new stable.
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