Tag Team
Minnesota Wrecking Crew
(Lars, Gene, and Ole Anderson)
Gene: Height 6 ft 0 in
Lars: ??
Ole: Height 6 ft 1 in
Date of birth: May 7, 1965
Debut: 1965
Gene Anderson formed the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew with Lars Anderson in 1965 . They wrestled throughout the country in the late 60's until Lars left to live in Hawaii.
In June of 1966, Gene and Lars left for Georgia and rose to the top of the cards there, winning the Southern Tag Team titles in early 1967, and then winning the World Tag team title trophy recognized by the Georgia promotion in April of 1967 from Enrique and Ramon Torres in Atlanta.
Later in 1967, they either lost or vacated those titles and returned to Crockett Promotions and were at the top of the cards, eventually winning the Southern Tag Titles from Johnny Weaver and George Becker in 1968, shortly before that title was discontinued.
When Gene and Lars returned from their highly successful tour of Georgia, Lars told WGHP (High Point NC) television wrestling announcer Charlie Harville all about how he and Gene had won the World Tag Team Championship in Georgia, and held up a photo of the two of them standing with the the trophy. This helped establish the Anderson brothers as a top tag team in the area.
In 1969 Gene then brought in Alan Rogowski, and renamed him Ole Anderson. They dominated tag team wrestling in the 1970's, winning the NWA World Tag Team Titles 8 times. Over those years, Lars Anderson was on occasion brought back in as part of this team.
When Gene stopped wrestling in 1981 to manage, the team was disbanded.
In 1985, Ole reformed the Crew with Arn Anderson as his partner. They won the NWA National Tag Team Titles and were members of the original Four Horsemen as the Wrecking Crew. They disbanded in 1987 when Ole was kicked out of the Horsemen.
Arn and Ole revived the Wrecking Crew in 1990 but it lasted for only a few months before Ole retired.
Lars and Ole
Georgia Championship Wrestling NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (2 times)
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia
version) (1 time)
Gene and Ole
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (7 times)
NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship (3 times)
NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (2 times)
NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (7 times)
N WA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version) (1 times)
Ole and Arn
Georgia Championship Wrestling NWA National Tag Team Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Tag Team of the Year 1975: Ole and Gene Anderson.
PWI Tag Team of the Year 1977: Ole and Gene Anderson.
PWI ranked Ole and Arn Anderson # 79 of the best 100 tag teams during
the "PWI Years" in 2003
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(compiled by Brett Schwan)
