
Barry Windham
Born: 1960-07-04
Place of Birth: Sweetwater, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
Known For

WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden

The Rise & Fall of WCW

WCW The Great American Bash 1990

NWA The Last Tangle in Tampa

WWE: The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection

NWA Bunkhouse Stampede

NWA The Great American Bash 1988

NWA The Great American Bash 1988: Greensboro

WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash

NWA Starrcade 1988

WCW Beach Blast 1993

WCW The Great American Bash 1992

WCW Starrcade 1990

Tag Team Champions

The Second Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament

NWA Lords of The Ring

AWA WrestleRock 1986

WWE WrestleMania 13

WCW SuperBrawl II

WrestleMania

WCW WrestleWar 1991

WCW Halloween Havoc 1992

WCW/New Japan Supershow: Rumble in The Rising Sun

Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal

WWE War to Settle the Score

WrestleMania XL Saturday

NWA Chi-Town Rumble

The History of the World Heavyweight Championship

WWE Survivor Series 1997

NWA Starrcade 1987

WCW Slamboree 1994

MLW War Games

WCW WrestleWar 1992

WCW Beach Blast

WCW Clash of The Champions XVII

WCW SuperBrawl 1

WCW Starrcade 1992

WCW Clash of The Champions XIX

WCW The Great American Bash 1991

WWE Survivor Series 1996

NWA Clash of the Champions

WCW Clash of The Champions XXII

WCW Fall Brawl 1999

WCW Clash of The Champions XXI

NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush

WWE: The Best of Sting

WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House

Diamond Dallas Page: Positively Living

WCW Bash at the Beach 1999

The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions

WCW Slamboree 1993

WWE Hall of Fame 2024

Best of the WWF Volume 3

The WWF's Amazing Managers

WCW Road Wild 1999

WCW Souled Out 1999

WCW Uncensored 1999

WCW Clash of The Champions XVIII

NWA The Great American Bash '87: War Games

NWA Clash of The Champions III: Fall Brawl '88

Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen

WCW SuperBrawl IX

WCW Clash of the Champions XV: Knocksville USA

Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports

The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling

WCW Clash of The Champions XXIII

NWA Battle of The Belts II

WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection

WCW SuperBrawl III

WCW Clash of The Champions XX: 20th Anniversary

WCW Clash of The Champions XVI: Fall Brawl '91

WCW'S Greatest Pay-Per-View Matches Volume 1

WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams

WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede

NWA Clash of The Champions IV: Season's Beatings

The Best of the WWF: volume 10

WCW Clash of The Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite

Life In The Fast Lane

NWA Clash of the Champions II: Miami Mayhem
