Barry Windham

Barry Clinton Windham is an American semiretired 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 NWAWCW he was a onetime NWA World Heavyweight Champion a onetime United States Heavyweight Champion a onetime Television Champion a onetime Western States Heritage Champion a fourtime NWA Mid AtlanticWCW World Tag Team Champion and a onetime NWA United States Tag Team Champion with Ron Garvin In WWF he was a twotime World Tag Team Champion with his brotherinlaw 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 Bischoffs 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 mid1999 They were supposed to be a heel group to feud with rapper Master Ps 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 DiBiases promotion WXO and World Wrestling Council WWC where he won the latters 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 exwife Kebra He is also the maternal uncle of presentday 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 brotherinlaw Mike RotundaHis 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