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Tully Blanchard Calls His AEW Tenure A “Very Difficult Time”

Tully Blanchard Calls His AEW Tenure A “Very Difficult Time”

WWE Hall of Famer Tully Blanchard joined AEW in 2019 at Cody Rhodes’ invitation, going on to manage Shawn Spears and later FTR. However, he would end up being let go after no-showing at an ROH event. And now, during a recent appearance on Busted Open, the former Four Horseman revealed that his time in AEW was “difficult” due to the promotion’s rigid, spot-heavy match planning, which made it hard for him to recall cues, unlike his traditional, reactive style.

“It was a different time. Cody Rhodes got me involved when he was at AEW and wanted me to manage Shawn Spears. And that worked really, really well. And then they put me with FTR for a while and thought things were going well. I wasn’t really a good manager. Well, I take that back, I don’t know that I was a bad manager, but during my career, matches were not laid out like they are now, and I had a very, very difficult time. ‘Okay, when this happens, you do this,’ rather than flowing with the audience and stuff as I had always done. And so I was inevitably in the wrong place at the wrong time.”Tully Blanchard

71-year-old Blanchard began his wrestling career in 1975 with Southwest Championship Wrestling, capturing multiple heavyweight and tag titles alongside Gino Hernandez as The Dynamic Duo. Joining Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984, he secured the NWA World Television and United States Championships and co-founded the iconic Four Horsemen stable. Teaming with Arn Anderson, they claimed the NWA and WWF World Tag Team titles. Yet a failed drug test effectively ended his mainstream in-ring career, though, thanks to AEW, he would get to work one more big match after a 14-year hiatus.

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