Minnesota Wrecking Crew The Minnesota Wrecking Crew was originally a professional wrestling tag team that was formed by Gene and Lars Anderson but since then has featured a number of wrestlers who wrestled under the Anderson family name despite not being blood related . History . Gene Anderson formed the original " Minnesota Wrecking Crew " with Lars Anderson ( Lawrence Heinemi ) in 1965 . They wrestled throughout the country in the late 60 ' s with moderate success until Lars left to live in Hawaii . The Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 . In 1969 Gene then brought in Alan Rogowski , and renamed him Ole Anderson . They dominated tag team wrestling in the 1970s , 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 . This version of the The Crew was the longest running and most successful version , they won NWA 8 World Tag Titles Mid Atlantic , 1 NWA World Tag Title , Georgia Championship Wrestling , 10 Mid Atlantic Tag Titles , 12 Georgia Tag titles , and in total over 90 tag titles in the almost 10 years together . When Gene stopped wrestling in 1981 to manage , the team was disbanded . Alan continued to wrestle as Ole Anderson . Revival of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew . In 1985 , Ole was part owner with Jim Barnett of Georgia Championship Wrestling when Jim Crockett Promotions bought them both out . Ole had also been GCW booker plus also shared announcing duties with Gordon Solie on the Georgia Championship wrestling TV program . With the change of ownership Ole ' s position as announcer was going to David Crockett and his position as booker was going to Dusty Rhodes so Ole ' s storyline changed . At this time the team of Ole and Thunderbolt Patterson were National Tag Team champions and were wrestling as baby faces along with Ole supporting Tommy Rich , Dusty Rhodes and others with their feuds with the heels in the company . " Ric Flair had met journeyman wrestler Marty Lunde when Marty acted as Flair ' s driver in Florida , Flair not could believe Marty ' s resemblance to Ole . Flair recommended Marty to Ole who after meeting with Marty then sent Marty to CWF for seasoning . After wrestling first as Mr Olympia tag partner Super Olympia the two Olympia ' s had a feud where they unmasked each other and Marty was revealed as " Arn Anderson " of the Anderson clan and Mr . Olympia as Jerry Stubb . " Arn and Jerry were brought into Atlanta together as a team wearing matching Panama hats in place of their masks . Over the next several weeks Gordon Solie slowly built up Arn ' s credibility as an Anderson with Ole slowly coming along and being more and more impressed by Arn ' s abilities . Ole was then replaced at the podium position by David Crockett so Ole would now come out to ringside and observe Arn ' s matches . Ole became so impressed by Arn ' s carrying on the Anderson ' s hard as nails heel ethics that it caused a split between him and Thunderbolt . T - bolt came out to the announcers podium complaining of Ole ' s vocal support of Arn after Arn broke a prelim wrestlers arm during a TV match . Ole told T - bolt that after watching Arn these last few weeks he saw how things could be for him & Arn as a team and that he was tired of " carrying " T - bolt , Tommy Rich , Dusty Rhodes and others . He told T - bolt that they were done as a team and the next time T - bolt saw Ole to " Look Out " . Later during a TV match between Arn & Many Fernandez ( who had come to the rescue of the prelim wrestler whose arm Arn had broke the week before ) Ole came to the ring side to yell instructions to Arn . Manny became upset with Ole ' s advising Arn during the match and confronted Ole . Arn took advantage of the distraction and kneed Manny in the back dumping Manny through the ropes to Ole ' s feet . Ole helped Manny to his feet looking to throw him back into the ring so Manny attacked Ole . Arn jumped Manny from the ring to start helping Ole . The two beat Manny down to the concrete floor before Thunderbolt came out to confront Ole in front of the podium . Arn then jumped T - Bolt as T - Bolt was arguing with Ole , Arn attacked and then dragged T - Bolt into the ring and Arn at first fought T - bolt alone . As T - bolt started to get the better of Arn , Ole jumped into the ring and held on to T - Bolt and then helped Arn stomp him until the Ragin Bull rescued him . Video of the turning of Ole against T - bolt A National Tag Team Title match was set up between Ole / Arn and T - Bolt / Fernandez with the winning team becoming National Tag Team Title holders . Ole & Arn won the match and Arn received T - Bolt ' s Tag Title belt . Ole and Arn became founding members of the original Four Horsemen as the Minnesota Wrecking Crew . They disbanded in 1987 when Ole was kicked out of the 4 Horsemen and replaced with Lex Luger . Arn and Ole revived the Minnesota Wrecking Crew in 1990 but it lasted for only a few months before Ole retired . Ole managed the " Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 " in NWA in 1990 while Arn was out injured . It was two wrestlers from Minnesota in masks , Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom . They were former AWA World Tag Team Champions but they did not do much but get beat by NWA World Tag Team Champions Rick and Scott Steiner in the NWA . In 2001 in Ohio Valley Wrestling , Brock Lesnar and Shelton Benjamin formed the " Minnesota Stretching Crew " in honor of the Wrecking Crew ( Lesnar and Benjamin had been teammates on the University of Minnesota wrestling team ) . More recently , independent women wrestlers Lacey and Rain have started using the name " Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew " in homage to the Anderson ' s classic tag team . Further reading . The Minnesota Wrecking Crew ’ s history is covered in a chapter dedicated to the team in the book " The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame : The Tag Teams "