Ole Anderson

Alan Robert Rogowski, better known by his ring name of Ole Anderson, ( born September 22, 1942 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is a former American professional wrestler and manager, wrestling promoter and booker. Anderson, whose career spanned from 1967 to 1993, held numerous tag team titles, including eight by the World Tag Team Championship of the National Wrestling Alliance, most of them with Gene Anderson, as his brother he has been issued to the public. Anderson was one of the founding members of the Four Horsemen Stables.

Career

AWA, NWA, JCP and GCW

Anderson began 1967 in the American Wrestling Association ( AWA) as " Rock" Rogowski with the wrestling before joining connected as a tag team partner for Gene Anderson Jerry Crockett Promotions (JCP ), one of the National Wrestling Alliance promotion. Gene Anderson's previous partner, Lars Anderson, had its gradual withdrawal from the wrestling started to the gimmick of Tag Teams "Minnesota Wrecking Crew ", which was that the members were related, was given Rogowski of the new ring name " Ole Anderson ". The "Minnesota Wrecking Crew" occurred mainly in the leagues of JCP and the Georgia Championship Wrestling ( GCW ), another promotion of the NWA connected to. Over the years, Anderson held a total of seventeen times the tag team title of the GCW and eight times the title of the NWA World Tag Team Champions. The magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated has named 1975 and 1977, the tag team of Gene and Ole Anderson the best tag team of the year.

GCW and JCP

Behind the scenes of GCW Ole Anderson was the responsible Booker, who cared for the match fixtures and storylines. 1981 to 1982 he held the same position at JCP, which enabled him to more freely use the under contract with the wrestlers and promotions to mix for shows. Anderson invested his money in the wrestling business and last held a ten percent stake in the GCW, its significance was that they had a nationwide as the first NWA League via a satellite transmitter on television receiving shipment.

As the majority owner of GCW sold the promotion in 1984 to Vince McMahon, Anderson did not make with this step and founded with two partners with the " Championship Wrestling from Georgia " own promotion. Anderson and his co-owners sold them in the following year to Jerry Crockett, the owner of the JCP.

Anderson continued to fight in the JCP, in which he with " Arn Anderson " (actually Martin Lunde ) also found a replacement for retreating from age reason Gene Anderson. With Arn Anderson, his alleged cousin, the Superstar Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard Anderson founded the Stable of the " Four Horsemen ", a group of heels that supported each other in 1986. Ole Anderson's active ring career was already coming to an end, the next year he was replaced Lex Luger as the fourth Horseman, since Anderson into managing amateur wrestler career required his son Bryant. In 1988, Ole Anderson announced his retirement, but was released the next year again for a short time as an active member of the Four Horsemen before he resigned to become manager of the Horsemen.

WCW

Behind the scenes, Anderson worked as chief of all Booker for promotion World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), which had emerged from the JCP, as Booker, starting in 1990. In the credits of the pay-per- views for the WCW he appeared under his real name. As chief Booker Anderson was responsible for the storylines of the entire promotion. In this position he remained until 1993, when he was the station manager of WCW, Eric Bischoff fired. This followed the dismissal of Ole Anderson's son Bryant from a construction contract, the promotion and the attempt Ole Anderson, his son was to procure a new contract with another promotion, had with their promoter Anderson met on the premises of WCW. Regardless of the circumstances of the separation led him in 1994 WCW in their WCW Hall of Fame.

Ole Anderson, is not equal to many other former wrestlers, stayed away from wrestling following his departure from WCW. In 2003 he published a book Inside Out: how corporate America destroyed professional wrestling, in which he critically looked back sometimes on his experiences in the wrestling business.