Big shout out to Barry Windham 🔥 Stream the Full Shoot Interview (2002) : ➡titlematchnetwork.com/wrestling-shoot-interviews-results/

@EdsterIII

4 ай бұрын

I always thought Barry Windham was one of the BEST wrestlers/performers in professional wrestling. He had a fierceness and a intensity that was so bad *ss. Yet he always was decent and very good with fans. 🕷The Widow-Maker🕷 gimmick was okay but Barry was better in the NWA IMO. He is a true LEGEND! Well deserving of a spot in a REAL Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Thanks for sharing this!

Best thing to happen to Barry Windham a year later he was in the NWA in the main event with Ric Flair.

@Therealgeoffchilds

4 ай бұрын

And probably making a quarter of the money in three nwa

@godphoenix66x

4 ай бұрын

​@@Therealgeoffchilds not always about the money. I'm sure he did ok for himself in NWA.

@Jasonbfv

4 ай бұрын

The travel was unpleasant for him. There was less travel in the NWA

@Anthropoahagus

4 ай бұрын

@@Therealgeoffchilds I doubt he was making much more in the WWF especially with him working in a tag team.

@Anthropoahagus

4 ай бұрын

@@Jasonbfv Yes, I agree with you. Still I would have loved to have lived that kind of lifestyle.

Loved barry windham. Seemed always cool to fans and a good human being

@OikPoinFive

3 ай бұрын

Windham was a weird first name for Bray Wyatt! Why? Looks n sounds like a last name. Two last names. Some actors have two 1st names lol: actors Keith David and David Keith lol. And Michael Cole.

One of the GOATS. Spivey was good, but he was no Barry Windham. What a great story.

I always thought Barry Windham was one of the BEST wrestlers/performers in professional wrestling. He had a fierceness and a intensity that was so bad *ss. Yet he always was decent and very good with fans. 🕷The Widow-Maker🕷 gimmick was okay but Barry was better in the NWA IMO. He is a true LEGEND! Well deserving of a spot in a REAL Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Thanks for sharing this!

@OikPoinFive

3 ай бұрын

lol wasn't Barry in the wwf nwa in 1998??

The guys from that era PAID DUES!!!😮

That Tag team had so much potential. they were ; going to be an exciting team unfortunately it didn't work

I remember when Barry showed up on CWF to save Blackjack and Kendall.

It’s kind of hysterical that Mike left then goes back. Barry flips but he flips so hard they ain’t letting him back

I met Windham and Rotundo right around this time, in Tampa. Barry, like he said, was supposed to wear an eyepatch, but he wasn't. Then i see him on TV with the eyepatch on! He broke kayfabe and a young man's heart.

@fastesteddiealive

4 ай бұрын

That’s hilarious

His story is pretty wild. Either way, Windham became a bigger star once he left the WWF.

@OikPoinFive

3 ай бұрын

Yes! Steamboat too. In nwa

Barry seems quite well spoken, intelligent, and "with it" But MAN, his pupils are huge !!

Dude was likeable even as a heel.

@meekrob

3 ай бұрын

He's a natural babyface.

I hated that they tried to replace Windham with Spivey. I remember thinking, "Who's this fake Barry!?"😡 😂🤔

@johnnyskinwalker4095

3 ай бұрын

Same!

As much as i liked Wyndham & Rotundo as a tag team i liked Barry better as a Horseman and Rotundo in the Varsity Club.

@soulofanerd9364

4 ай бұрын

💯

"Barry, I like the way you can't pronounce my last name. I'm naming my first son after you."

@mr.timebombman2230

4 ай бұрын

Mike went by Rotundo also when he was in WWF.

@mattp5250

3 ай бұрын

@@mr.timebombman2230 OMG thankyou - I have always know him as Mike Rotundo ... but can't find anything but Rotunda on the internet. Thought I was having my own Mandela Effect moment!

@johnnyskinwalker4095

3 ай бұрын

@@mattp5250 Same. Everybody was calling him Rotundo when I was a kid. Then on the internet they were calling him Rutunda.

@paulaburden9596

3 ай бұрын

I did name my son after Barry, they have the same initials....BCW Loved Barry ❤ since the first time I laid eyes on him in 1985. Still love this guy to heaven and back ❤❤❤

@phychmasher

3 ай бұрын

@@paulaburden9596 I'm a big Barry fan as well, I just found it funny that he kept calling Mike Rotunda, Mike Rotundo, considering Rotundo named his kid after Barry!

I loved Windham and Rotunda and I remember them switching Barry Windham with Dan Spivey and it wasn't the same and I was a kid probably 10? This would explain the ridiculous gimmick when he returned but he was great in WCW and was used perfectly!! Rotunda at times was great in WCW but luckily he got a great gimmick from WWE.

@crownprincesebastianjohano7069

4 ай бұрын

Varsity Club Rotunda was his peak for sure. He really was a great heel and a great TV Champ when the title still meant something. A good Top 5 guy during 1988-1989 when he also won the tag-titles with Dr. Death.

@karlepaul6632

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, he definitely made his mark as IRS...but I feel Mike Rotunda as himself, particularly during the Varsity Club years, were great...I feel he's really underrated...plus he was a legit shooter

@johnnyskinwalker4095

3 ай бұрын

@@karlepaul6632 Yea he was better as a heel or face in WCW. That IRS stuff was too cartoonish

Barry is my favorite big wrestlers.

The WWF schedule was crazy around that time. Even guys like Harley couldn't take it and quit.

I swear i feel like a little kid all over again watching these interviews. Keep em coming ❤❤❤

@5:30 lol. long after the u.s. express, Windham drove up to the hotel & asked me if we had a washer/dryer

Barry was such a natural.

Mike is a brave man to be walking around downtown Baltimore at night in the mid-1980's...

@p.d.l7023

4 ай бұрын

Like it's any safer there now?! 😅

@bulldogbrower6732

3 ай бұрын

He probably ended up spending that night stuffing one dollar bills at Norma Jeans.

90 days without a day a off you probably feel like you need to check yourself into the nuthut at that point..

@gregclark3268

4 ай бұрын

Cornette said in Mid South and Crockett they were working 6 or 7 nights a week and doing double shots on Sundays and driving everywhere. i honestly dont know why more guy didnt snap

@jonathanturbide2232

4 ай бұрын

​@gregclark3268 Drugs, booze and brothels probably helped a lot in dealing with that insanity. 😂

@PAPITOFLOW6969

4 ай бұрын

​@@jonathanturbide2232Vince Drove Those Guys Straight To Their Deaths With The Injurys & The Insane Travel Schedules They Had

@gregclark3268

4 ай бұрын

@@jonathanturbide2232 based in stories i've read and heard yes it did. still an insane schedule to keep

@huckstaunfiltered8200

4 ай бұрын

@ericdravenX00X Good thing you're not a commercial fisherman... Try 8 months, 7 days a week, 15 hour days... These dudes be living out their dreams, while some of us, had to do what we had to do, to make the best for ourselves..!! (And those we loved)

Loved them both during the Gordon solie days in Florida. My favorite was rotundo as IRS. He'd yell at the crowd you didn't pay your taxes, and they would shout back I DID PAY MY TAXES. Lol

Always been a Bigg-Fan of Barry Windham.....🦀💪🦀🤼‍♂️🏆🤼‍♂️💯🤼‍♂️🏆🤼‍♂️🦀💪🦀

Spivey is no clone of Windham

Kids back then actually thought Dan Spivey was Barry Windham. It was adults telling kids that Windham changed his name to Danny Spivey to wrestle in the WWF. Funny how Windham mentions cloning him with Spivey at the end of the video. I knew they were not the same wrestler and I was a kid back then. NWA/WCW were Flair and the four Horsemen. Dedicated fans but 2nd fiddle to WWF back then. I think Vince knew the WCW/NWA wrestlers were just as good and sometimes even better than WWF wrestlers.

@soulofanerd9364

4 ай бұрын

Most times better than WWE wrestlers

I vividly remember this period. Mid 85 - early 86 I was becoming a dedicated wrestling fan picking my favorites and Windham was an instant favorite. I was a huge Rock n Roll Express fan and the US Express kinda represented a wwe version of them only with bigger guys. Out of the two Windham shined just a little more than Rotunda. So when BW disappeared abruptly (from a kid's perspective) and Spivey came in, I didn't like it at all. I recognized Spivey though as Starship Eagle from NWA Jim Crockett Promotions. Next thing I know BW is showing up on TBS JCP. So it looked like a trade or something at the time 😄😄😄. Hearing this story fills in the gaps and makes a lot of sense.

Rotunda got over big time as IRS.

A bit of wrestler brain here. He and Rotunda had been off the entire month of September, then were on the road for just under 2 weeks before that Boston show.

Good Morning One Off My Favorite Wrestler Off All Times Barry Windham 🎉❤I Ain't See Kendall In Years I Like Him Too Growing Up

Greed, you can't travel and work that many days straight like that. It was the days when the boss didn't care as long as the money kept rolling in. Next comes drugs, then comes death. Some survived awhile. Vicious very painful cycle where money isn't the only or most important thing that matters. If McMahon is crazy enough to work guys that many days straight he certainly is crazy enough to do or try to do anything.

What about when Billy Jack Haynes having a heart attack on a plane and Vince was mad because he couldn't work?

@meekrob

3 ай бұрын

Now did that actually happen, or did Haynes say it happened, because those are two different things.

Seems everyone backstage referred to Brute-I as "Dizzy Hogan".

Barry is amazing.

i remember being sad when he left wwf. spivey and rotundo weren't any good. i was in 6th grade and I had a tshirt made with barry windhams name on it because they didn't have shirts. sure I looked like a dork when I wore it but it wasn't that bad because brian and craig had fake hulkamania shirts that we all made fun of.

@MyNameIsUnavailable

4 ай бұрын

That's what up!

So many wrestling moments occur in Baltimore🤔

Sounds like they weren't communicating with each other.

I didn't even know who Barry Windham was till AFTER he left WWF and worked for the Florida territory teaming with his brother Kendall and Lex Luger.

I've never understood why Vince didn't give each wrestler 2 or 3 days off a week so they could go home. If I was their boss they'd definitely get that time off. I wouldn't want my wrestlers upset and hating their job. I wouldnt care about the money as much. I imagine money was still pouring in.

US Express was great. US Express Bulldogs would have been a fabulous feud in the WWF in 1985.

Seems like Vince was building an empire on his workers backs.

So that's what happened. I was wondering why they lost the straps, so suddenly, I mean they were super over.

Don’t know if everyone has experienced burnout but if you have then you can empathize. Had a job decades ago when it felt like I was there 99% of the time.

@jumbothompson

4 ай бұрын

When I don't want to see another human being that's when I know I'm burnt out. I Can't even imagine what these guys went through. But at the same time once you get going it's almost hard to stop and you're just on autopilot the entire time.

Real Fans Love Barry Windham.

Mike pretty much threw Barry under the bus.

You came back, though, didn't you Mr. Stalker.

Valentine is still mad about it

"I bought a new Porsche" = what could possibly go wrong with that?!

@MyNameIsUnavailable

4 ай бұрын

Ask Magnum TA, unfortunately. 😢

@walkerch

4 ай бұрын

I didn't think he could fit in a Porsche

Barry should've been a single champ in the WWF I.C Champ & Heavyweight Champ and why he could go move for move with cruiserweights then go against the big guys , same for NWA , WCW he should've always had a belt or wrestling for one and he had the most talent , to be one of the all time greats where we go he was better then Flair , he was he was better then Hogan he was it the only difference is Flair , Hogan put wrestling first in their life over family and all things personal.

I really don't think people give Windham enough credit for his in-ring work. Any younger fans should look his 80s matches, for his size he was like a cat.

I dont know how old this interview might be, but he looks great for a wrestler of his age, the ones that actually lived as long. 😢

@jimdebow2552

4 ай бұрын

Had to be at least 10 years ago. He looks way different now

@nelsongarcia-tn7tt

4 ай бұрын

This interview is from 2002. So over 20 years ago, Barry looks a lot different now.

Did he have heat with Dan??Hahahaaa,of course he didnt.

I see why Vince McMahon shitted on Barry n Mike careers when they came back to WWE and Vince McMahon took it out on Bray Wyatt

@darkhorse1280

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, Mike got a pretty decent push when he came back as IRS. When Barry came back as “The Widowmaker”, he was undefeated for his entire stint which means Vince probably had big plans for him before leaving again.

That's such a shame cause The US Express was my favorite tag team as a kid. These guys were so damn over like the tag version of Hogan with the patriotism, etc...Then they had the team return but Dany Spivey with the blonde hair as Rutonda's partner. But even as a kid I knew Spivey was a huge downgrade.

I remember them against sheiky 🇮🇷. And volkof At the first wrestlemania. They whacked him in the back with blassies cain. 👋

Barry fuk up by going back to WWE

Hello

Would have made a good champion after the WWF steroid scandal, athletic natural athlete who could work,but Bret Hart fom got the spot and the rest is history.

Mike rotunda was Naomi n Barry Sasha banks 😂

Rotunda

Great performer.....When he came back to the WWF as the Widowmaker, Vince for some reason sabotaged it.....Hogan/Windham would have been awesome. But Vince screwed it.

Vince worked them like dogs. No health care, no pension, no revenue sharing. The McMahon family ends up as billionaires. Why don’t these guys see the benefits of the NFL or Major League Baseball. The wrestlers need a union.

Was Mike dating his sister?

@shawnawesome7770

4 ай бұрын

Theyre married. Bray wyatt was mike and his sisters son.

@eldrow

4 ай бұрын

Clearly

@p.d.l7023

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Mother of Bo Dallas and Bray Wyet.

@MyNameIsUnavailable

4 ай бұрын

STILL MARRIED 40 YEARS LATER 💯

He never got good gimmicks in wwe i mean the Widowmaker ..... wtf

the saggymaster express was a great team

I heard he heard Billy Jack was going to new york. I dont blame him for leaving after what happened in Florida.

"...anywhere on the planet..." I have NEVER seen any evidence of a whirling, twirling, hurling, hurtling, wibbling, wobbling, zipping, zooming, spinning and spiraling space ball, spherical "planet" earth and NEITHER HAS BARRY WINDHAM OR ANYONE ELSE.

Watch #350Days to hear about the insane schedules the wrestlers worked- starring Bret Hart and SuperStar Billy Graham and 3 dozen legends

@MoparStephen

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely insane. With the international date line crossings, Hulk Hogan wrestled 400 days in one year. These new guys have it so easy.

I can't feel sorry for them because they knew what they were getting into.

The guy is a legend but boy does he just frantically babble on about nothing. I got lost a little bit in the middle. Well actually a lot. WTF was he actually talking about?

@Thathorrorguy12FU

3 ай бұрын

He went from plane tickets to anywhere to washing his laundry dude.

I just hope he will go in as IRS one day with million dollar man

nice guy

It would be Awesome 2 See Him at Wrestle-Mania 40 & Help Cody Rhodes.....📺👀📺🤼‍♂️🏆🦀🏆🤼‍♂️📺👀📺

If you can't take the hea t stay out of the kitchen ok belly Windom 🤼😵‍💫