Top 50 Greatest Wrestling Heels of all time

38. Arn Anderson

One of history’s most reliable in-ring workers, ‘Double A’’s peak was in the 80s and 90s during his time in The Four Horsemen.

Brought in as the kayfabe brother of Ole Anderson, once-enhancement talent Marty Lunde was brought into the NWA as Arn Anderson. In JCP, he soon found success both as a solo wrestling and in the tag division. Other than multiple TV title reigns throughout his career, he formed a formidable duo with Tully Blanchard – a duo that would soon join up with Ric Flair in his company-dominating faction. This meant Anderson was brought to prominence and would fight some of the biggest names in the world. He would also overcome perceived anti-WWF bias by winning the WWF World Tag Team titles during his short run there.

Anderson would further have another big heel run in WCW in the 90s. He joined The Dangerous Alliance, The Stud Stable and managed to get a rare pinfall one-on-one win over Hulk Hogan amongst other accolades. He was present for many new iterations of The Four Horsemen, seeing the addition of everyone from Curt Hennig to Dean Malenko to Paul Roma until Arn’s forced retirement in 1997 having been an always crisp, trusted and technically-sound wrestler who could draw the greatest out of himself and his opponent yet stayed a figure who could be hated.