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Former NWA World Champion and all-time great Barry Windham suffered a heart attack over the weekend while traveling through the Atlanta airport and is currently hospitalized in Intensive Care.
Windham's niece Mika Rotunda has launched a GoFund Me Campaign to assist Windham:
With deep sadness I regret to inform that my uncle, WWE Hall of Famer, Barry Windham suffered a massive heart attack Friday evening. While traveling through the Atlanta airport, his darkest fear became a horrific reality as he went into cardiac arrest. He is currently in the ICU and has undergone an emergency procedure to save his life. As a family, we are impatiently waiting to hear that he will be okay. But as of now, the future is uncertain.
As is the future for many in his position. And for those who have formerly devoted their lives to their craft. Barry Windham, has an iconically, decorated resume as an American professional wrestler. He traveled all over the world for decades, entertaining people of all ages with his athleticism and undeniable charisma.
After those countless years of wrestling matches, traveling and entertaining world wide, he experienced a number of taxing injuries and ended up undergoing multiple surgeries. That led to other health complications. Barry hung his boots for the last time in the early 2000’s. Since then he has been limited with work due to his medical history as well as left without health insurance.
To face these times is one of great stress and hardship. As well as one that comes with extensive medical expenses he is taking on. That is overwhelming to say the least.
We are politely asking for any increment of financial assistance to help cover his medical expenses and bills and see him through this time.
Windham, 62, was part of what is considered the strongest quarter ever in The Four Horsemen. A second-generation talent, Windham is the son of Blackjack Mulligan and was long considered to be one of the best pro wrestlers in the 1980s, especially his heel run in Jim Crockett Promotions. His heel turn on Lex Luger in April 1988 is, in my opinion, one of the best heel turn angles of all time.
As a babyface, Windham's matches with Ric Flair for the NWA title were second to none and as a heel, he had great matches with Dusty Rhodes and Lex Luger for Crockett Promotions. Over the course of his career, Windham worked for the WWF, initially as one half of the I.S. Express with Mike Rotunda during the original Wrestlemania era and later as "The Widowmaker" and "The Stalker." He had multiple runs in WCW, winning singles and tag team titles over the course of that company's run as well. He last wrestled in 2006, but I could write books about what he's given to fans over the course of his career, especially the 80s and early 90s.
Everyone at PWInsider.com sends our best to the entire Windham family.
