Minnesota Wrecking Crew

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The Minnesota Wrecking Crew was a professional wrestling tag team that was formed by Gene Anderson and which featured a number of wrestlers who wrestled under the Anderson name.

[edit] History

Gene Anderson formed the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew with Lars Anderson in 1965. They wrestled throughout the country in the late 60's until Lars left to live in Hawaii. In 1969 Gene then brought in Alan Rogowski, and renamed him Ole Anderson. They dominated tag team wrestling in the 1970's, winning the NWA World Tag Team Titles 9 times. Over those years, Lars Anderson was on occasion brought back in as part of this team.

When Gene stopped wrestling in 1981 to manage, the team was disbanded.

In 1985, Ole reformed the Crew with Arn Anderson (his son in law) as his partner. They won the NWA National Tag Team Titles and were members of the original Four Horsemen as the Wrecking Crew. They disbanded in 1987 when Ole was kicked out of the Horsemen.

Arn and Ole revived the Wrecking Crew in 1990 but it lasted for only a few months before Ole retired.

Ole managed the Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 in NWA in 1990 while Arn was out injured. It was two wrestlers from Minnesota in masks, Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom. They were former AWA World Tag Team Champions but they did not do much but get beat by NWA World Tag Team Champions Rick and Scott Steiner in the NWA.

In 2001 in Ohio Valley Wrestling, Brock Lesnar and Shelton Benjamin formed the Minnesota Stretching Crew in honour of the Wrecking Crew. More recently, independent women wrestlers Lacey and Rain have started using the name "Minnesota Homewrecking Crew" as a homage to the Anderson's classic tag team.

[edit] Championships/Accomplishments

  • 9 NWA World Tag Team Titles (Ole and Gene)
  • 1 NWA World Tag Team Title (Georgia version) (Ole and Lars)
  • 1 NWA National Tag Team Title (Ole and Arn)
  • 3 NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Titles (Ole and Gene)
  • 2 NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Titles (Ole and Gene)
  • 6 Georgia Tag Team Titles (Ole and Gene)
  • 1975 & 1977 Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) Tag Team of the Year (Ole and Gene)
  • PWI ranked Ole & Arn # 79 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003.


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