You will carry that tradition way past the year 2000. You are something special in my eyes, you knew what it meant to be a Horsemen. Your intensity, the first time I saw you wrestle, made you something special. Chris Benoit, you got this thing rolling, and I’m gonna go on record as saying, if there’s a finer wrestler in all the land than you I don’t know who it is. So when I thought I could no longer be a Horsemen, Chris Benoit came to me first and said ‘this can all happen’ and with that prelude, I would like to bring the other three Horsemen out right now. Trust me, everybody’s gonna get what they want tonight, Bischoff. Well, the fact is I couldn’t in my mind… And my life changed forever, and the doors it opened for me I had never dreamed of, and wrestling the greatest wrestlers in the world in a town like this and all across this country showed me who I was, and every day that I woke up since then I tried to uphold the standards that we, you and I and the rest of us set for ourselves.Īnd about a year and a half ago, I laid down on an operating table and when I woke up, Arn Anderson the wrestler was dead, and I thought to myself how could I be a horseman if I couldn’t be a wrestler. And when that finally happened for me, it was the proudest day of me life, and in 1986 I started coming to these towns, just like Greenville, South Carolina, as a Horseman.
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Now when I was a kid, like all kids, people ask you ‘what do you wanna be when you grow up?’ There was no grey area for me, I always knew I wanted to be a wrestler. They said ‘Arn Anderson, stand up and be a man, like you’ve always been!’ And I couldn’t hear those words, ’cause something was in the way and I’m gonna start at the beginning, because you have to start at the beginning because tonight IS a new beginning for the Four Horsemen. What you said to me is what all those people have been saying to me for a year and a half, and only a true friend would say that. “Can you smell it, JJ? Take a breath – can you smell it? When fifteen thousand people blow the roof off a place, that’s what a pop smells like.
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The transcript is here, followed by a link to the full video. One of the best of Arns’ career and one of my all-time favorite promos. However, prior to Ric doing his thang we were treated to a heartfelt speech from Arn Anderson. Ric arrived to a raucous cheer and delivered one of his classic promos, the Fire Me, I’m Already Fired opus aimed at Eric Bischoff.
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Thousands had come out that night to cheer on, perhaps even manifest, the return of Ric Flair. I was live at that show with my college best friend, JP, and from the time we arrived until the time we left there was electricity in the air in downtown GVL. I’ve written before about the Monday Nitro from Greenville, SC, and how special that night, that show was to me.