[1990-03-24-NWA-Worldwide] Interview: Ole Anderson & Minnesota Wrecking Crew II

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Ole with another great heel promo.

[PeteF3]

Good attempt to save an absurdly underwhelming payoff to Ole's "master plan" to take care of the Steiners. The era of masked tag teams was over with by this point and the Crew II were quickly going from putting over the Steiners to putting over Pillman & Zenk.

[soup23]

Good promo by Ole and I blanked that the Destruction Crew was ever in WCW.

[Kevin Ridge]

Couldn't figure out who the masked guys were. Ole doesn’t like any of this nice guy amateur stuff the Steiners do. The Andersons will do whatever it takes to win.

[Cox]

I was with Ole until he starts talking about Rick Steiner being a nice guy. Has he ever seen Rick wrestle? Jesus, the poor guy used to practically cripple jobbers.

[Rock_Of_Jericho]

I wonder why they made Enos and Bloom wear masks if they were just going to have them wear the same attire with a different color in relation to the Destruction Crew stint in the AWA. Weird, but it could be worse, as both would find out in the WWF later...

[JerryvonKramer]

Had no idea this ever happened. Genuine "huh" moment for me.

[garretta]

Same basic promo as the one Ole cut on The Louisville Slugger, except for ducking JR's question about whether Crew II were Anderson family members. Ole would have been better served to drop the whole angle concerning the Steiners at this point and be exclusively Flair's manager, at least until Windham and Sid came in to reform the Horsemen in a month or two.

[Migs]

I wonder why they made Enos and Bloom wear masks if they were just going to have them wear the same attire with a different color in relation to the Destruction Crew stint in the AWA. Weird, but it could be worse, as both would find out in the WWF later...

 

This came up in some old Observers I was reading - Enos and Bloom were on loan from Verne and he didn't want them doing jobs on TV, since they were still his tag champs.

[drew wardlaw]

Like other peoe I have no memory of this. I hope there's some matches on here from them.

[GSR]

Jim Ross says that there is a cloud of mystery surrounding these men (it’s Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom Jim!) and wonders if they are related to him? Ole says that it’s none of his business and all that he and the Steiners need to know is this is what they’re going to have to contend with. Everbody looks at the Steiners and they say, as good as they are, what chance does Ole Anderson, what chance do the Horsemen and what chance does the Minnesota Wrecking Crew II have against two of the greatest collegiate wrestlers in the world? Ole says that there’s a big difference between collegiate and professional wrestling, and there is a big difference in the Anderson and Horsemen philosophy of wrestling than everybody else’s. There is no place for sportsmanship in wrestling, they know they have to win and will do whatever it takes. Think back to when Gene was sacrificed? Now Arn is in the hospital and they’re not going to stop until the World tag team titles are around the Minnesota Wrecking Crew II’s waist.

 

Ole is such a great mouthpiece here. The Horsemen have been having a stellar year on the mic so far, but I’d rank Ole as the best of the bunch. Not one dud segment and he always hits every point and gets everything across. I’ve always wondered what sort of agreement was in the NWA and AWA that allowed Enos and Bloom to be on NWA whilst they were the AWA tag team champions (even if they were under masks).