Barry Windham, WWE Hall of Famer, in ICU after heart attack

A professional wrestling nice is battling severe well being points.

Barry Windham, a member of the WWE Corridor of Fame, was rushed to the hospital after struggling a coronary heart assault on the Atlanta airport.

Windham’s niece, Mika Rotunda, who's the sister of professional wrestlers Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas, introduced the information and posted a GoFundMe that seeks to lift $200,000.

“He's at the moment within the ICU and has undergone an emergency process to avoid wasting his life. As a household, we're impatiently ready to listen to that he will probably be okay. However as of now, the longer term is unsure,” Rotunda wrote on the GoFundMe web page.

“As is the longer term for a lot of in his place. And for individuals who have previously devoted their lives to their craft. Barry Windham, has an iconically, adorned resume as an American skilled wrestler. He traveled all around the world for many years, entertaining individuals of all ages together with his athleticism and plain charisma.”

WWE Hall of Famer Barry Windham is in ICU after suffering a heart attack.
WWE Corridor of Famer Barry Windham is in ICU after struggling a coronary heart assault.
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The 62-year-old Windham’s wrestling profession spanned from 1979 till 2010. He carried out in NWA’s Championship Wrestling, AWA, Jim Crockett Promotions and had a number of stints in WWE (then referred to as the WWF) and WCW.

He was a very massive star within the mid-to-late Eighties, as a member of Ric Aptitude’s 4 Horsemen secure. Between NWA, WCW and WWF, Windham was a seven-time tag-team champion, and received a number of particular person belts, together with the US championship and TV title.

The 4 Horsemen have been inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2012.

On the GoFundMe web page, Mika Rotunda wrote that her uncle doesn't have medical health insurance.

“After these numerous years of wrestling matches, touring and entertaining world extensive, he skilled a variety of taxing accidents and ended up present process a number of surgical procedures,” she wrote. “That led to different well being issues. Barry hung his boots for the final time within the early 2000’s. Since then he has been restricted with work attributable to his medical historical past in addition to left with out medical health insurance.

“To face these occasions is one among nice stress and hardship. In addition to one which comes with in depth medical bills he takes on. That's overwhelming to say the least. We're politely asking for any increment of monetary help to assist cowl his medical bills and payments and see him via this time.”

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