NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Barry Windham

Barry Windham (born July 4, 1960, Sweetwater, Texas) is a professional wrestler and the son of the infamous heel wrestler Blackjack Mulligan. He is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance and, later, World Championship Wrestling. Barry Windham from http://www. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sweetwater is a city located in Nolan County, Texas. ... Blackjack Mulligan with the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship Blackjack Mulligan (Born Robert Joseph Windham on November 26, 1942 in Toiletwater, Texas) was a professional wrestler and a former football player. ... Harley Leland Race (born April 11, 1943 in Quitman, Missouri), is an American professional wrestler and promoter. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sweetwater is a city located in Nolan County, Texas. ... ... In professional wrestling, a heel is a villain character who is portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner; sometimes they are humourously referred to as evil. ... Blackjack Mulligan with the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship Blackjack Mulligan (Born Robert Joseph Windham on November 26, 1942 in Toiletwater, Texas) was a professional wrestler and a former football player. ... The National Wrestling Alliance is a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, in operation since 1948. ... World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that was based in Atlanta and existed from 1988 to 2001. ...

Career

Barry Windham is largely considered one of the best workers of his time by many true wrestling experts. He was a fan favorite for most of the early and middle periods of his career, having great success in singles and tag action. He held tag team championships with Mike Rotundo in both the WWF and NWA. After leaving the WWF in 1985, he was outspoken in his criticism of the "Rock and Wrestling" promotion the WWF was employing at the time, which may or may not have hurt his commercial career, depending on your point of view. He had memorable matches with "Nature Boy" Ric Flair, which were arguably some of the best matches of all time. He was part of Flair's group The Four Horsemen on two different occasions (1988 & 1990 to 1991). His biggest feuds were against Flair, Lex Luger, Sting and Dusty Rhodes. Lawrence Michael (Mike) Rotunda (born March 30, 1958 in Syracuse, New York), also known as Mike Rotunda and Irwin R. Schyster, is an American former professional wrestler. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... The National Wrestling Alliance is a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, in operation since 1948. ... This article is about the year. ... At one point he had made a video for the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team with his famous WOOO!! Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee), better known by his ring name Nature Boy (adopted from Nature Boy Buddy Rogers) Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler currently... // The Original Four Horsemen The Four Horsemen formed in January 1986 with Flair, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew consisting of Arn and Ole Anderson, and Blanchard, with James J. Dillon as their manager. ... Lawrence Wendell (Larry) Pfohl (born June 2, 1958 in Buffalo, New York, now resides in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Lex Luger, is an American professional wrestler and former professional football player. ... Sting Sting (real name Steve Borden; born March 20, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a professional wrestler who has wrestled with several wrestling leagues, such as NWA, WCW, and NWA:TNA since the early 1980s. ... Virgil Runnels, Jr. ...

Between his runs as a Horseman, Windham returned to the WWF in 1989 as the Widowmaker, which some consider a precursor to the Undertaker persona, but due to outside legal problems involving Barry's father and brother, the charachter did not last long. It was otherwise a forgettable time in his career. He left the company to return to WCW a few months later. Mark Calaway (also spelled incorrectly as either Callaway or Calloway), better known by his ring name, The Undertaker, is an American professional wrestler, currently performing for the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment. ...

Much of Barry's early career was in the Florida region of the NWA where Gordon Solie (the Walter Cronkite of pro wrestling) was the head announcer. State nickname: Sunshine State Official languages English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Senators Bill Nelson (D) Mel Martinez (R) Area - Total - % water Ranked 22nd 170,451 kmÂ² 17. ... Gordon Solie was a professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for World Championship Wrestling. ... Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ...

During one of Barry's WCW runs, he feuded with "Stunning" Steve Austin over the Television title, which resulted in Windham winning the title. He also feuded with Austin's fellow Dangerous Alliance members Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko who "broke" his hand by slamming it in a car door. He formed a very successful tag team with Dustin Rhodes around this time, as well. When Ric Flair returned to WCW in 1993, Flair and Arn Anderson tried to recruit Barry for another Horsemen run, but Barry became "The Lone Wolf" and won the NWA World Title, feuding with Flair and Arn. Steve Williams (born December 18, 1964), better known by his stage name Stone Cold Steve Austin, is a professional wrestler from Victoria, Texas, USA. His birth name was Stephen James Anderson; he took on the surname Williams when he was adopted by his stepfather (his biological father had left the... The Dangerous Alliance The Dangerous Alliance was a heel professional wrestling stable that made a name for itself in World Championship Wrestling. ... Martin Marty Lunde, better known by his stage name of Arn Anderson (born September 20, 1958 in Rome, Georgia), is an American professional wrestler, regarded by most professional wrestling experts as the greatest professional wrestler never to have won a world title. ... Larry Zbyszko Larry Zbyszko (born Lawrence Whistler on December 5, 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a professional wrestler. ... Virgil Runnels III (born April 11, 1966 in Austin, Texas; often called Dustin Runnels) is a professional wrestler who has competed in the WWE and WCW. He is best-known for his WWE character of Goldust, a sexually ambiguous movie star. ...

Windham would again return to the WWF in 1996, this time as The Stalker, wearing camouflage face paint. For a short time, he renewed his feud with Dustin (he had turned on him in 1992 in WCW), now known as Goldust, only this time, Windham was the face and Rhodes was the heel.

He later formed The New Blackjacks with Justin Hawk Bradshaw in 1997. That team didn't last long, as Barry turned on Bradshaw to join Jim Cornette's "NWA faction" in 1998 (at the time, the NWA had become just a group of smaller independent promotions, and they cooperated with the WWF for this storyline). The angle was scrapped months later, and Windham left for WCW again. John Charles Layfield, born November 29, 1967, in Sweetwater, Texas, is an American professional wrestler, competing in WWEs Friday Night SmackDown brand. ... Jim Cornette James Cornette, better known by his stage name James E. Cornette, which is often shortened to Jim Cornette, born September 17, 1961 in Louisville, Kentucky, is an American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

In his last WCW run, Barry was part of The West Texas Rednecks. They were supposed to be a heel group to feud with rapper Master P's "No Limit Soldiers" but the southern fans of WCW cheered the Rednecks, going against what WCW management and booking had hoped for, and the angle was eventually dropped. The group consisted of his brother Kendall Windham, Curt Hennig and Bobby Duncum, Jr. After Duncum suffered an injury (after which he never returned to WCW), Vincent (Mike Jones, also known as Ted Dibiase's sidekick Virgil in the WWF) was added to the group, using the name "Curly Bill", shortly before the group was disbanded and the Rednecks storyline was dropped. Windham was originally brought back to WCW by Eric Bischoff who had him turn on Ric Flair. He was loosely associated with Bischoff's nWo Hollywood for awhile before forming a tag team with Hennig. WCW logo until 1999 World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. ... The West Texas Rednecks The West Texas Rednecks were a professional wrestling goup in WCW in 1999. ... In professional wrestling, a heel is a villain character who is portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner; sometimes they are humourously referred to as evil. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Kendall Windham was a professional wrestler. ... Curt Hennig (March 28, 1958 - February 10, 2003), also known by his stage name Mr. ... Bobby Duncum Jr. ... Eric Aaron Bischoff (born May 27, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan) was the on-screen General Manager for World Wrestling Entertainment on its RAW brand, but he is best remembered for being the former president of World Championship Wrestling (WCW). ... At one point he had made a video for the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team with his famous WOOO!! Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee), better known by his ring name Nature Boy (adopted from Nature Boy Buddy Rogers) Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler currently... The nWo (New World Order) was both a professional wrestling storyline and the stable of wrestlers who were its central players. ...

By 2001, Barry had truly taken on cult status, citing a group of fanatical internet wrestling fans known as "The Barry Windham Revolution" for encouraging him to make a miraculous physical comeback, where competitors might have simply retired. Barry had worked very hard and gotten back down to 236 lb (107 kg) as he had been for much of his early career.

During this time, on the American independent scene in Dusty Rhodes' now defunct Florida-based TCW, Barry won their heavyweight championship and held it for the better part of a year. He also became part of the Xtreme Horsemen in stable with Steve Corino and C.W. Anderson. They feuded with Dusty & Dustin Rhodes. Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling is the name of the organization which uses the abbreviated TCW name. ... The Original Four Horsemen The Four Horsemen was a popular professional wrestling stable in the NWA and WCW. The stable has had numerous incarnations over the years. ... Steven Eugene (Steve) Corino (born May 29, 1973 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a professional wrestler, currently working for Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX and numerous independent promotions. ... C.W. Anderson Chris Wright (aka C.W. Anderson) is a professional wrestler who became famous when working for Extreme Championship Wrestling during its dying days. ...

Barry's last appearances were at MLW's War Games and a one time U.S. Express Reunion with Mike Rotundo at Wrestlereunion I.

Barry now resides in Florida and while not a frequent active competitor in any wrestling promotions, at this time no formal retirement has been announced.

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Titles and accomplishments

National Wrestling Alliance

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World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that was based in Atlanta and existed from 1988 to 2001. ... WCW World Television Championship. ... The WCW World Tag Team Championship was the major tag team title in World Championship Wrestling from 1991 to 2001, when the promotion closed. ... Curt Hennig (March 28, 1958 - February 10, 2003), also known by his stage name Mr. ... Kendall Windham was a professional wrestler. ...

World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE, is a professional wrestling organization. ... World Tag Team Championship The World Wrestling Entertainments World Tag-Team Championship is the WWEs original tag-team championship and is now exclusive to the RAW brand. ... Lawrence Michael Rotunda, better known as Mike Rotunda, or Mike Rotundo, is an American Professional Wrestler. ...

Florida Championship Wrestling

Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) was an NWA promotion that started in Florida in 1949. ... The NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship was a major title in Championship Wrestling Florida and is now the major title in NWA Florida. ... The NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship was the major singles title in the National Wrestling Alliances Florida territory, Championship Wrestling Florida. ... The NWA Florida Tag Team Championship is the primary tag team title in NWA Florida. ... Mike Graham Michael Gossett was a professional wrestler better known as Mike Graham. ... The NWA Florida Television Championship was a secondary title in Florida Championship Wrestling. ... The NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship was a secondary tag team title in Florida Championship Wrestling from 1978 until 1986. ... The NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship was a minor tag team title in Florida Championship Wrestling froom 1982 until fall 1983, when it was replaced by the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship. ... Ron Bass Ronald Herd was a professional wrestler best known as Ron Bass. ...

Other Titles

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated

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