Tully Arthur Blanchard was born on January 22,1954 and is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and manager.
36 Facts About Tully Blanchard
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Tully Blanchard is best known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions and the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s as a member of The Four Horsemen and The Brain Busters.
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Tully Blanchard was inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame in 2009 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Tully Blanchard began selling programs and refreshments at the arenas at the age of ten, and worked as a referee when he was older.
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Tully Blanchard attended West Texas State University, where he played American football, first as a quarterback and then as a defensive end, alongside fellow future wrestlers Tito Santana and Ted DiBiase.
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Tully Blanchard was trained to wrestle by his father and Jose Lothario, debuting in 1975 in his father's promotion, Southwest Championship Wrestling, where he held a number of backstage production and creative positions.
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Tully Blanchard began his career as a face by tag teaming with his father in a feud against Dory Funk, Jr.
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Between 1978 and 1983, Tully Blanchard held the SCW Southwest Television Championship and SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship on seven occasions.
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Tully Blanchard formed heel tag team with Gino Hernandez, "The Dynamic Duo".
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Tully Blanchard immediately entered into a feud with Mark Youngblood over the NWA Television Championship, which would later be renamed the NWA World Television Championship and WCW World Television Championship.
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Tully Blanchard won the title on March 28,1984, and defended the title against some of the top contenders in the territory such as Ricky Steamboat, whom he faced at Starrcade '84.
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The title would soon be renamed the NWA World Television Championship and the two continued to feud throughout the first half of 1985 with Tully Blanchard regaining the title and losing it back to Rhodes in early July 1985 at the Great American Bash inside a steel cage; Rhodes won the services of Baby Doll for 30 days.
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On July 21,1985, Tully Blanchard defeated Magnum for the US Championship by punching him with a foreign object in his hand given to him by Baby Doll, who came to ringside dressed as a security guard.
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In late 1985, Tully Blanchard fired Baby Doll as his manager, slapping her during an interview segment and ignited a feud with Dusty Rhodes, who came to her aid.
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The group quickly established dominance within the territory by capturing numerous championships with Arn being the NWA World Television Champion simultaneously, Tully Blanchard winning the NWA National Heavyweight Championship in March 1986 and with Flair as the NWA World Champion.
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Around that time, Tully Blanchard failed a drug test, testing positive for cocaine and causing his premature departure from the WWF and the withdrawal by the NWA of their offer of employment.
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Tully Blanchard debuted in the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based American Wrestling Association in March 1990, aligning himself with The Destruction Crew.
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Tully Blanchard made his final appearance with the AWA in May 1990.
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Tully Blanchard did not accept the offer, considering the offer to be too low, and WCW replaced him with Paul Roma.
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One year later, at Slamboree 1994, Tully Blanchard appeared with WCW for a single night, wrestling Terry Funk to a double disqualification.
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In January 1995, Tully Blanchard debuted in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion, wrestling ECW World Heavyweight Champion Shane Douglas to a time limit draw.
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On September 12,1998, Tully Blanchard teamed up with fellow Four Horseman alumnus, Barry Windham, and defeated the Border Patrol to win the NWA World Tag Team Titles.
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Tully Blanchard defeated Stan Lane at the Heroes of Wrestling PPV on October 10,1999.
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On January 29,2005, at WrestleReunion, Tully Blanchard lost to Jeff Jarrett.
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Tully Blanchard appeared prominently in the 2007 DVD Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen.
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On March 31,2012, Tully Blanchard was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Horsemen.
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Tully Blanchard was the head booker of NWA: New Beginnings territory in Charlotte, North Carolina and has been a backstage agent for the wrestling shows as part of the 2010 and 2011 NWA Legends Convention which were in Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia.
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Tully Blanchard made a surprise appearance during a sit down interview with Jim Ross and Shawn Spears on AEW's "Road to All Out" YouTube series that premiered July 17,2019.
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At Full Gear, Tully Blanchard helped Spears defeat Joey Janela by delivering an assisted piledriver on the concrete.
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However, the angle was dropped due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Tully Blanchard being unable to appear on television.
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Tully Blanchard then presented Spears with a black glove similar to the one worn by Blackjack Mulligan and Ted Dibiase.
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Later that night during the Death Before Dishonor media scrum, Tony Khan said that Tully Blanchard is doing well personally and wished him the best, saying we could see him in AEW or ROH again in the future.
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Tully Blanchard was first married on May 7,1978, to Elizabeth Diane Boyles in Bexar County, Texas.
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Tully Blanchard says it took him twenty years to come to terms with his and his wife's falling-out and his relatively sparse presence in his children's lives.
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Tully Blanchard currently has a prison ministry, where he preaches to inmates.
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In 2010 Tully Blanchard joined International Network of Prison Ministries, where he serves on the Board of Advisers.