The
Warlord and the Barbarian are two of my guilty pleasure favorites in wrestling,
whether it be together as a team or as singles.
They worked together as the Powers of Pain until 1990, prior to
Wrestlemania VI, on March 25 in Hershey, PA.
Their manager Mr. Fuji ended up selling their contracts over to Bobby
Heenan (The Barbarian) and Slick (The Warlord), respectively and they made
their singles debuts oddly enough at a WWF
Superstars taping in Sacramento, CA on March 6, 1990. For those looking to watch their respective
debuts, The Barbarian debuted on March 24, and the Warlord debuted on April
7. They both went on to have lackluster
singles careers with the Barbarian ending his WWF stint on February 16, 1992,
and the Warlord ending on April 18, 1992, being pinned by Virgil, of all
people.
The
Barbarian went on to return to the WWE on June 6, 1994, and spent several
months subbing for guys like Diesel and Crush on house shows, before returning
as Fatu’s partner Seone, in the Headshrinkers.
They first teamed on September 1, at a house show against WWF tag champs
Diesel and Shawn Michaels, and spent most of their time putting over Men on a
Mission and the Blu Brothers at house shows.
The Barbarian also worked WCW in 1992 for a brief period and teamed with
Haku for a short stint in New Japan in 1993.
Meanwhile, the Warlord wrestled some indies and in Japan for WAR,
actually holding the WAR six man belts with Scott Putski and Bob Backlund in
1994.
In 1995
and 1996, the stars would align once again as the Barbarian and the Warlord
would once again team up on a national stage, in WCW, as the Super Assassins. No, they did not wear cool face paint and
have cool haircuts and beat up people unmercifully. Rather, under the tutelage of Colonel Robert
Parker, wore masks and yellow and black costumes similar to the original
Assassins. They worked only briefly at WCW Pro and WCW Saturday Night tapings, only winning against the American Males
in their debut, and they worked the very first World War 3 battle royal.
Their most noteworthy match was also their final match in WCW, on WCW Nitro on January 1, 1996, losing to
Sting and Lex Luger in less than six minutes.
The dream was over.
The
Warlord and the Barbarian touched many people’s hearts throughout their careers
but never quite had immense success together.
Perhaps more memorable for the Barbarian was his Faces of Fear tag-team
with Meng in WCW, which began actually on WCW
Main Event on February 4, 1996, taped on January 29, in Canton, OH. Have no fear, they would go on periodically,
into modern times, teaming together on the indy scene, for companies like
CHIKARA, in 2012. For now, please
remember them for their epic time spent together in WCW, wearing honeybee
clothing. How on earth did Colonel Parker
think that they would ever capture tag team gold by dressing like complete
geeks.
Here
are some of the Super Assassins matches on Youtube, please enjoy…
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