Barry Windham

Birthday: 1960-07-04
Birthplace: Sweetwater, Texas, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Barry Clinton Windham is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and the son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan. He is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In NWA/WCW, he was a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, a one-time United States Heavyweight Champion, a one-time Television Champion, a one-time Western States Heritage Champion, a four-time NWA (Mid Atlantic)/WCW World Tag Team Champion and a one-time NWA United States Tag Team Champion with Ron Garvin. In WWF, he was a two-time World Tag Team Champion with his brother-in-law, Mike Rotunda. On March 31, 2012, Windham was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Horsemen. In his last World Championship Wrestling run, Barry Windham was originally brought back to WCW by Eric Bischoff who had him turn on Ric Flair. Barry was then loosely associated with Bischoff's nWo Hollywood for a while before forming a tag team with Curt Hennig. At SuperBrawl IX, Hennig and Windham defeated Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko in the finals of a tag team tournament to win the vacant WCW World Tag Team Championship. Barry reinjured his knee during this period but would return as part of "The West Texas Rednecks" in mid-1999. 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.; Duncum was replaced by Curly Bill after he was injured and shortly before the group was disbanded and the Rednecks storyline was dropped. On August 23, 1999 edition of Nitro, the Windham brothers defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) to win their final WCW World Tag Team Championship, before losing the titles back to Harlem Heat at Fall Brawl 1999. Both Barry and Kendall were shortly after released by WCW. By the end of 1999, they all had left WCW and Barry worked for Ted DiBiase's promotion WXO and World Wrestling Council (WWC), where he won the latter's World Tag Team Championship in Puerto Rico with brother Kendall. Windham worked as a producer for WWE. In 2007, he appeared on the Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen DVD. Barry was also seen during the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame broadcast, sitting next to former partner John "Bradshaw" Layfield. In June 2007, Windham did the introduction of SuperBrawl Windham has a son named Callan and a daughter named Abigail with his ex-wife, Kebra. He is also the maternal uncle of present-day WWE wrestlers Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas. On October 26, 2011, it was reported that he was hospitalized for either a very serious stroke or a massive heart attack and was in an ICU unit. He was found at his ranch by his brother-in-law Mike Rotunda.His family confirmed that Windham suffered a heart attack. His father Blackjack Mulligan posted a message to Facebook saying "I have a son near death". He was later moved to a facility in Orlando, Florida for a MRI on his neck due to the fall he took from the heart attack.

Credits

Year Title Character
2024-04-06 WWE WrestleMania XL Saturday Barry Windham
2024-04-05 WWE Hall of Fame 2024 Barry Windham
2013-08-13 WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden The Stalker
2012-05-15 WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches
2007-11-20 Life In The Fast Lane
2007-06-05 The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling
2003-09-19 MLW War Games
2001-01-28 AJPW Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular
1999-09-12 WCW Fall Brawl 1999 Barry Windham
1999-08-14 WCW Road Wild 1999 Barry Windham
1999-07-11 WCW Bash at the Beach 1999 Barry Windham
1999-03-14 WCW Uncensored 1999 Barry Windham
1999-02-21 WCW SuperBrawl IX Barry Windham
1999-01-17 WCW Souled Out 1999 Barry Windham
1998-02-15 WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House Barry Windham (Appearance)
1997-11-09 WWE Survivor Series 1997 Blackjack Windham
1997-07-06 WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede Blackjack Windham
1997-03-23 WWE WrestleMania 13 Blackjack Windham
1996-11-17 WWE Survivor Series 1996 The Stalker
1993-07-18 WCW Beach Blast 1993 Barry Windham
1993-05-23 WCW Slamboree 1993 Barry Windham
1993-02-21 WCW SuperBrawl III Barry Windham
1992-11-18 WCW Clash of The Champions XXI Barry Windham
1992-10-25 WCW Halloween Havoc '92 Barry Windham
1992-09-02 WCW Clash of The Champions XX: 20th Anniversary Barry Windham
1992-07-12 WCW Great American Bash '92 Barry Windham
1991-07-14 WCW The Great American Bash 1991 Barry Windham
1991-05-19 WCW SuperBrawl: Return from The Rising Sun Barry Windham
1991-02-24 WCW WrestleWar 1991 Barry Windham
1990-06-13 NWA Clash of The Champions XI: Coastal Crush Barry Windham
1989-03-18 NWA Live: March 18, 1989 Barry Windham
1988-12-07 NWA Clash of The Champions IV: Season's Beatings Barry Windham
1988-09-07 NWA Clash of The Champions III: Fall Brawl '88 Barry Windham
1988-06-08 NWA Clash of the Champions II: Miami Mayhem Barry Windham
1988-03-27 NWA Clash of the Champions Barry Windham
1987-11-26 NWA Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat! Barry Windham
1987-03-01 The Best of the WWF: volume 10 Barry Windham
1987-01-01 Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports Barry Windham
1986-09-01 NWA Battle of the Belts III Barry Windham
1986-03-01 Tag Team Champions Barry Windham
1986-02-14 NWA Battle of The Belts II Barry Windham
1985-03-31 WrestleMania Barry Windham
1985-01-01 Best of the WWF Volume 3 Barry Windham