The column for this month is about one of my all time favorite wrestlers, Barry Windham. This column will only cover his career from 1988 and onward and all his info from before can be found in the Pick A Wrestler section.

In 1988 Barry Windham had been in the NWA for about a year. He was one of wrestling's most popular wrestlers. In 1987 he had had some of the best matches of the year with Ric Flair who was the NWA World Champion. Flair himself acknowledged what a good wrestler Barry was and said he had a bright future but his problem was he was always a nice guy and didn't take shortcuts. For most wrestlers this wouldn't mean much however Barry Windham's father was Blackjack Mulligan who was a former tag team partner of Ric Flair and one of Flair's best friends.

Barry Windham decided to stick to his guns and wrestle cleanly, He was the first UWF Western States Heritage Champion and had helped form the "Anti Horsemen" which was a group of wrestlers who all were feuding with The Four Horsemen: the group was Barry, Kendall Windham, Jimmy Garvin, Ronnie Garvin, and Lex Luger. Barry Windham started 1988 with a bad start as he lost his Western States title to Larry Zybysko thanks to outside interference. At the first Clash of Champions event on March 27, 1988 (the same day as WWF Wrestlemania IV to mess up the buyrate) Barry and Lex Luger won the NWA tag team titles form Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard. Unfortunately since Luger had left the Horsemen recently many people saw it as a win for Luger and not Luger and Windham or even for the Anti Horsemen. Barry Windham was no stranger to gold and felt happy for Luger to get his revenge but also felt left out of the victory.