A Minnesota Wrecking Crew Two-Pack May Be On The Way
Arn Anderson dropped a small piece of merchandise news during the April 2026 episode of his podcast Straight Talk With The Boss. He said an Arn Anderson and Ole Anderson two-pack action figure has never existed and may finally be coming.
“You know the one thing that no one has ever put out in all these years, there’s never been an Arn holding two-pack wrestling action figure. There’s never been one. Keep your, keep your ear to the ground.”
Bromwell pressed for details. Anderson would not say more.
“They may be a first. There’s somebody that’s pretty high on that project. We’ll see. Keep ears to the ground. Eyes open.”
The release would mark the first packaged figure that pairs Anderson with Ole Anderson, the wrestler whose physical resemblance is the reason Arn was given the Anderson name when he came up through Southeastern Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling. The Minnesota Wrecking Crew name traces back to the Ole Anderson and Gene Anderson tag team from the 1960s and 1970s, with Anderson taking Gene’s spot in the rebooted version when Ole agreed to work with him to hone his act.
“Possibly,” Anderson said when asked directly whether an Ole and Minnesota Wrecking Crew set was coming. “Fan of bursts.”
He did not name the manufacturer. The wording suggests that the deal is not yet finalized, but that there is a real conversation behind it.
Dean Malenko Got A Ring Endorsement
The same April episode of Anderson’s podcast saw a chat question come in about Dean Malenko’s ranking among Four Horsemen members. Malenko was part of the final 1998 incarnation of the stable that ran on WCW Monday Nitro alongside Anderson in his non-wrestling advisory role, Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, and Steve “Mongo” McMichael.
Anderson did not hesitate.
“Dean was incredibly talented. I got to see him at WrestleCon, which was good, always good to see Dean. Dean’s a good friend. Aaron went with Julie to that show Wizard of Oz. Okay. Yeah, while we were signing during the day, they went to that. So Dean was, my God. I mean, as far as technical stuff with some lucha mixed in, and being the catching on the catching end, nobody was better. I think anybody was better, because it’s one thing to hit all these flip flop and flies, but being the one that has to catch them, you have to be perfect every single time he was.”
The endorsement focused on the part of Malenko’s work that often goes unmentioned. Hitting flashy spots takes athleticism. Catching them safely night after night takes a different skill set. Malenko was the receiver in dozens of breakthrough cruiserweight matches in WCW from 1995 through 1999, including a long run of classics with Eddie Guerrero, Rey Misterio Jr., and Chris Jericho.
Anderson On Terry Gordy: “A Big Talented Son Of A Gun”
A super chat asked whether Anderson ever wrestled the late Terry Gordy. The answer was direct.
“Never. I would have loved to. He was a big, talented son of a gun. Athletic. Yes.”
The two never crossed paths in a singles or tag match despite both being active in the same era. Gordy spent his peak years in Mid-South under Bill Watts, in World Class with the Von Erichs, and in All Japan Pro Wrestling as part of the Miracle Violence Connection with Steve Williams. Anderson was building his career in the Crockett territory before moving with the company through its national expansion. Their schedules did not overlap in the right places.
Gordy died on July 16, 2001, at age 40 from a heart attack. He had been dealing with the long-term effects of a 1993 plane incident in Japan in which he overdosed and suffered serious brain damage that affected the rest of his career.
“Some Bitch Did It”
The episode also produced what Anderson tentatively named his future documentary. After fan suggestions ranging from “Toot Toot, the Enforcer Story” to “Meat Cutter to Mania” to “From Lundy to Legend,” Anderson floated his own working title.
“Some bitch did it.”
The phrase traces back to Anderson’s youth in Rome, Georgia.
“Everybody in Rome said, you know, you’re going to be dead or in jail. And then, you know, started training for the wrestling thing, and word got around, he’ll never make it. Just a regular guy. He looks like a sixth grade school teacher. What the hell? You got nothing for that business. And it was in those days it was hard, it was near impossible to even get a wrestler to speak to you.”
He repeated the title twice when Bromwell tried to push him toward something different. The bar Anderson cleared was not getting to the top of a card. It was being a regular-looking wrestler from a small Georgia town who broke into a business that did not want him.
Anderson, real name Martin Anthony Lunde, was born September 20, 1958, in Rome, Georgia. He debuted in 1982 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen. Ole Anderson, real name Alan Robert Rogowski, died on February 26, 2024, at age 81. The original Minnesota Wrecking Crew of Ole Anderson and Gene Anderson was a dominant tag team in Georgia Championship Wrestling and the wider Southern territories from the late 1960s through the late 1970s. Gene Anderson, real name Eugene Anderson Lutrell, died on October 31, 1991, at age 52.
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