Tully Blanchard

Tully Blanchard is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and manager, born in 1954 and the son of the wrestling promoter and former American Wrestling Association star Joe Blanchard. He sold programs at his father's arenas as a boy and later played American football at West Texas State University. Trained by his father and José Lothario, he debuted in 1975 in Southwest Championship Wrestling, then joined Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984. He is best known for the mid to late 1980s as a member of The Four Horsemen and, in the World Wrestling Federation, of the Brain Busters. His titles include the NWA Television Championship, the NWA World Tag Team Championship, the WWF World Tag Team Championship and the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship. He entered the NWA Hall of Fame in 2009 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012, and his daughter Tessa Blanchard is also a professional wrestler.