[1990-01-06-NWA-World Championship Wrestling] Interview: Four Horsemen

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

The Horsemen are excited to have Sting and board, and Sting is happy to be there! I was pretty young and didn't see a turn coming, but looking back, I'm not sure how I didn't. It's not because these segments telegraph it, but rather because having all of these guys on the same side really limited them.

[PeteF3]

The birth of Sting: All-Too Trusting Dumbass. Flair and Ole put him over, and Arn does the same while also hyping the Clash main event. I still don't agree with the decision to turn Flair back to a heel, but this was still shaping up to be a promising angle until Sting's injury blew it all to hell.

[Kevin Ridge]

Sting is excited to be a member of the Horsemen. He's happy to hear all these compliments from Flair but not sure why he's getting them. Hmmm. He already doesn't seem to fit in with the group.

[soup23]

I didn't think i would care for face Horseman but it works here and Sting does seem to belong. Looking forward to seeing the turn and the good along with the bad that the angle will bring in 1990.

[Cox]

I think the Horsemen going heel are kind of telegraphed with Ole Anderson being a babyface. He just does not seem like a good guy, or a guy that would ever hang out with Sting under any circumstances. Maybe if they had gotten Tully instead of Ole for the group, it might have worked, but I'm not buying Ole Anderson as a babyface.

[PeteF3]

I think the Horsemen going heel are kind of telegraphed with Ole Anderson being a babyface. He just does not seem like a good guy, or a guy that would ever hang out with Sting under any circumstances. Maybe if they had gotten Tully instead of Ole for the group, it might have worked, but I'm not buying Ole Anderson as a babyface.

Tully would perhaps be the most miscast babyface in history.

 

I've seen Ole work babyface on the Cornette garbage films--like, total, bouncing, hand-clapping babyface with Gene, not as an "antihero." He was actually really, really good and energetic about it.

[JerryvonKramer]

Now Flair flips over to his "Carolina Flair" persona to introduce Sting ... a tiny bit of foreshadowing maybe? A slight hint of heeliness?

 

Call it audience training but I can only see Sting as a total mug here. He must be getting set up, he MUST be.

 

Arn is a great promo.

[Johnny Sorrow]

HAHAHA, Sting's is totally marble mouthed and making no sense. I kinda remember this, and was all, "Sting is a Horseman? They're good guys?"

[Laney]

Sting is acting very excited to be in the Horsemen here. Flair and Arn do great babyface promo work here while Ole can't help but look like a scummy heel. Good work by Arn here to mention that people are surprised to

[Bix]

Well, this is obvious.

[bradhindsight]

Sting with some really dumb foreshadowing here but he's fired up and everybody gets high-fives.

 

Arn is just awesome again. Does he ever take a promo off? So crisp here. Just great.

[garretta]

Sting already has a feeling that things aren't quite as they should be; he should have acted on it. Old man Ole doesn't really fit the babyface mold, or the manager's mold either. Flair and Arn are 100% on point. It'll be interesting to see this play out as it did in real time.

[Johnny Guitar]

There's a sense of foreboding about these segments. You know Sting is heading for a massive beat down. It's just a matter of when.

[GSR]

Jim Ross is with Ole and Flair and says that the Horsemen have never been stronger since the inception of the group. Flair says how they've just picked up 6'3'', 260lb of the most charismatic, quality athlete in the world, when they are joined by Arn and Sting (who look like they've just had a match). Sting is excited to be a Horseman, considers it an honour and considers it an honour to hear Ric Flair giving him all those nice comments. Arn says how if all these people could have told them one year ago that he'd be stood next to Sting in a complimentary manner, their mouths would have fallen to the floor gaping open. Come Clash of the Champions when they get Buzz Sawyer, Great Muta and Dragon Master in a cage, life as they know it is over.

 

Just like the interview where they invite Sting to join the Horseman, Arn is on another level and the standout promo again.

[dawho5]

Count me in on the Sting looking out of place feeling. There's got to be something up because fresh-faced, innocent, pure Sting does not fit the Horsemen mold at all.

[Stiva]

A nice contrast with the previous segment with Flair, here. Very calm with his PWI award and in full Nature Boy mode here. And who can blame Sting for being excited at joining the Horsemen? It was the sweetest gig of the time.