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The Enforcers were a professional wrestling
Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the Professional wrestling promotion List of professional wrestling terms#B, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre....
 tag team
Tag team

In professional wrestling, a tag team consists of two wrestlers who are working together as a team . Often they are close partners and backstage friends who team with each other almost exclusively, while other times they are singles competitors who are booked together for just one match....
 consisting of Arn Anderson
Arn Anderson

Martin Anthony Lunde better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American Professional wrestling. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, Four Horsemen ....
 and Larry Zbyszko
Larry Zbyszko

Lawrence Whistler is a Professional wrestling, better known by his ring name, Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino during the early 1980s....
. This unit is best known for their run in World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling was an United States professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. In 1988, Ted Turner bought the promotion from Jim Crockett....
 from 1991-1992.

Enforcers (named for Anderson's nom du guerre in The Four Horsemen
Four Horsemen (professional wrestling)

The Four Horsemen were a popular professional wrestling List of professional wrestling terms#S in the National Wrestling Alliance and later World Championship Wrestling that was disbanded in 1999....
) were formed when Arn Anderson
Arn Anderson

Martin Anthony Lunde better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American Professional wrestling. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, Four Horsemen ....
 and Larry Zbyszko
Larry Zbyszko

Lawrence Whistler is a Professional wrestling, better known by his ring name, Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino during the early 1980s....
 started teaming in the later summer of 1991 in WCW
World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling was an United States professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. In 1988, Ted Turner bought the promotion from Jim Crockett....
. Scott Steiner
Scott Steiner

Scott Rechsteiner better known by his ring name Scott Steiner, is an United States Professional wrestling. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick Steiner as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order, where he was a List of WCW World Heavywei...
 was injured and the WCW World Tag Team Championship
WCW World Tag Team Championship

The World Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship championship in World Championship Wrestling....
 had become vacant because of it. The Enforcers were entered into the tournament for the titles and made it to the finals against Rick Steiner
Rick Steiner

Robert Rechsteiner better known by his ring name Rick Steiner, is an United States Professional wrestling.Steiner is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, both as a singles wrestler and one half of the tag...
 and Bill Kazmaier
Bill Kazmaier

Bill Kazmaier is an United States former powerlifting, strongman and professional wrestler. Kazmaier played football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1973-1974 before leaving school to pursue powerlifting full-time....
 at Clash of Champions XVI on September 5, 1991.

The Enforcers were known for their dirty tactics and did not fail to deliver upon that at the Clash.






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The Enforcers were a professional wrestling
Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional sport, where matches are prearranged by the Professional wrestling promotion List of professional wrestling terms#B, and is also considered an athletic performing art, containing strong elements of catch wrestling, mock combat and theatre....
 tag team
Tag team

In professional wrestling, a tag team consists of two wrestlers who are working together as a team . Often they are close partners and backstage friends who team with each other almost exclusively, while other times they are singles competitors who are booked together for just one match....
 consisting of Arn Anderson
Arn Anderson

Martin Anthony Lunde better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American Professional wrestling. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, Four Horsemen ....
 and Larry Zbyszko
Larry Zbyszko

Lawrence Whistler is a Professional wrestling, better known by his ring name, Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino during the early 1980s....
. This unit is best known for their run in World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling was an United States professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. In 1988, Ted Turner bought the promotion from Jim Crockett....
 from 1991-1992.

History

The Enforcers (named for Anderson's nom du guerre in The Four Horsemen
Four Horsemen (professional wrestling)

The Four Horsemen were a popular professional wrestling List of professional wrestling terms#S in the National Wrestling Alliance and later World Championship Wrestling that was disbanded in 1999....
) were formed when Arn Anderson
Arn Anderson

Martin Anthony Lunde better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American Professional wrestling. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, Four Horsemen ....
 and Larry Zbyszko
Larry Zbyszko

Lawrence Whistler is a Professional wrestling, better known by his ring name, Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino during the early 1980s....
 started teaming in the later summer of 1991 in WCW
World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling was an United States professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. In 1988, Ted Turner bought the promotion from Jim Crockett....
. Scott Steiner
Scott Steiner

Scott Rechsteiner better known by his ring name Scott Steiner, is an United States Professional wrestling. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick Steiner as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order, where he was a List of WCW World Heavywei...
 was injured and the WCW World Tag Team Championship
WCW World Tag Team Championship

The World Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship championship in World Championship Wrestling....
 had become vacant because of it. The Enforcers were entered into the tournament for the titles and made it to the finals against Rick Steiner
Rick Steiner

Robert Rechsteiner better known by his ring name Rick Steiner, is an United States Professional wrestling.Steiner is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, both as a singles wrestler and one half of the tag...
 and Bill Kazmaier
Bill Kazmaier

Bill Kazmaier is an United States former powerlifting, strongman and professional wrestler. Kazmaier played football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1973-1974 before leaving school to pursue powerlifting full-time....
 at Clash of Champions XVI on September 5, 1991.

The Enforcers were known for their dirty tactics and did not fail to deliver upon that at the Clash. They attacked Kazmeier with one of his weights during a power lifting demonstration at the beginning of the Clash. When the match came, they took advantage of his injured ribs and won the titles.

They then began a feud with Barry Windham
Barry Windham

Barry Windham is a Professional wrestling and the son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan. He is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling ....
 and Dustin Rhodes and broke Windham's hand in an out of ring attack. Windham and Rhodes had just arrived for an interview in Windham's car and the Enforcers slammed his hand in his car door as he was getting out of the vehicle.

This injury came just before they were supposed to get their title match against the Enforcers at Clash of Champions XVII on November 19, 1991. Nobody knew who Rhodes would get for a partner until just before the match when Ricky Steamboat
Ricky Steamboat

Richard Henry Blood , better known by his ring name Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, is a former United States Professional wrestling who became one of the most well-known professional wrestlers of the late 1980s and early '90s....
 came out. The Enforcers lost the titles to them at the Clash.

After this Clash, the Dangerous Alliance
Dangerous Alliance

The Dangerous Alliance was a Heel professional wrestling List of professional wrestling terms#S that made a name for itself in World Championship Wrestling in the early '90s and the American Wrestling Association in 1987, with Adrian Adonis, Randy Rose, and Dennis Condrey making up the AWA incarnation of the group....
 was formed, with Anderson and Zbyszko as members. New manager
Manager (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a manager is a secondary List of professional wrestling terms#G paired with a wrestler for a variety of reasons. The manager is often either a non-wrestler, an occasional wrestler, an older wrestler who has retired or is nearing retirement or, in some cases, a new wrestler who is breaking into the business and nee...
 Paul E. Dangerously
Paul Heyman

Paul Heyman is an United States entertainment producer, most well-known for his former roles in professional wrestling as Promoter , Manager , and commentator....
 paired Anderson with Bobby Eaton
Bobby Eaton

Robert Lee "Beautiful Bobby" Eaton , is an American semi-retired Professional wrestling, who made his debut in 1976. Eaton is most famous for his work in tag teams, especially his days as one-half of the team The Midnight Express ....
, ending the Enforcers' run as a tag team.

Championships and accomplishments

  • 1991 Tag Team of the Year
    PWI Tag Team of the Year

    The PWI Tag Team of the Year Award, given yearly since 1972 by professional wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated, recognizes the best tag team of the year as voted by readers of the magazine....


  • World Championship Wrestling
    World Championship Wrestling

    World Championship Wrestling was an United States professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. In 1988, Ted Turner bought the promotion from Jim Crockett....
  • WCW World Tag Team Championship
    WCW World Tag Team Championship

    The World Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship championship in World Championship Wrestling....
     (1 time
    List of WCW World Tag Team Champions

    The WCW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship championship contested for in World Championship Wrestling ....
    )