The Four Horsemen are one of the premiere groups in the history of professional wrestling, and as such, have a permanent spot in the hearts of millions of fans worldwide. But what if that legend were to add another chapter? Fantasy booking, one of the favorite pastimes of many a wrestling fan, is like writing your own chapter using existing characters and storylines, much like fan fiction. So what if Ric Flair and Arn Anderson, who both work for WWE currently, were to reunite the Four Horseman, passing the torch to young stars like Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose?
Maybe it would go a little something like this:
Dean Ambrose and John Cena, fresh off their odd couple/buddy cop mini-angle, decide that they could wreck some serious teeth as a quasi-permanent Tag Team. They start off by finishing up their feud with the Authority and turn their attention to the Tag Team belts (which hopefully still belong to the Cosmic Twins, Goldust and Stardust).
Meanwhile Randy Orton, who has become increasingly estranged from the Authority and Seth Rollins, starts RKO'ing everyone and everything a la the RKO Vines. Roman Reigns, returning from injury, joins Randy in a spear-happy assault on the WWE locker room. The two silent assassins (hopefully rarely touching a mic) form a bond out of mutual respect.
Ambrose and Reigns "put the band back together" without Rollins, forming the loose beginnings of a stable. Reigns is unsure, but trusts his only remaining Shield brother.
Eventually, it's revealed that Ric Flair and Arn Anderson have been cultivating this evolution all along. It's the long-awaited Horsemen Revival. Whooooooo!
While all that has been happening, a parody faction has been developing in the mid-card. Dolph Ziggler, The Miz (and Mizdow, if he hasn't already broken off on his own by then) Sheamus and Cesaro decide that they are all far too talented to be left squabbling for the unimportant IC and US Belts, so they work together to take over the main event scene for themselves.
After feuding with the Flair-approved Horsemen for a few months, Ziggler swerves and the Horsemen kick John Cena out of the group and he has to retire (Remember, this is fantasy booking).
The remaining members of the mid-card faction could then recruit a talented technician like Jack Swagger and just squash kids while feuding with the Horsemen.
Wrestling is a different beast than it was fifteen years ago; the form is constantly evolving, so nothing remotely resembling this scenario is likely to happen.
However, wrestling stables need to make a comeback and the Horsemen are a tried and true brand, waiting to be repackaged for the new millennium.
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