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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.

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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 WWF's "Rock and Wrestling" style, which deemphasized traditional wrestling. 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.

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 character did not last long. He left the company to return to WCW a few months later.

Much of Barry's early career was in the Florida region of the NWA where Gordon Solie was the head announcer.

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.

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.

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.; Duncum was replaced by Vincent (Mike Jones) 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.

By 2001, a group of internet wrestling fans known as "The Barry Windham Revolution" claimed to have encouraged Windham to make a physical comeback. While other 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.

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Athletes - Barry Windham

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