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Barry Horowitz Ring name(s) Barry Hart[1]
Barry Horowitz[2]
Jack Hart[1][2]
Brett Hart[2]
The Red Knight[2]
Major Yates[2]Billed height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1] Billed weight 221 lb (100 kg)[1] Born March 24, 1960 [3]
St. Petersburg, Florida[1]Trained by Boris Malenko[1] Debut 1979 Barry Horowitz (born March 24, 1960) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation.
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Career
Horowitz, who is Jewish,[4][5] attended Florida State University, where he studied sports nutrition and wrestled. After graduating, he trained as a professional wrestler under Boris Malenko in Tampa, Florida for 18 months and debuted in 1979 on the Floridian independent circuit. He went on to work for the World Wide Wrestling Federation, Jim Crockett, Sr.'s NWA Mid-Atlantic promotion, and promotions in Canada and Puerto Rico.
Horowitz eventually joined Florida Championship Wrestling as "Jack Hart". On July 23, 1985 in Tampa, Horowitz defeated Mike Graham in a tournament final to win the vacant NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship. He held the title until September 2, 1985, when he lost to Kendall Windham. He remained in FCW for two years, and was managed by heels such as Percy Pringle and Sir Oliver Humperdink.
After wrestling in Memphis as "Stretcher" Jack Hart, Horowitz joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1987. He spent two years in the WWF before suffering a neck injury which left him sidelinded for ten months. After he had recuperated, Horowitz traveled to Texas, where he worked for the newly-formed Global Wrestling Federation. Competing in the light-heavyweight division, Horowitz (billed as Barry "The Winner" Horowitz) won the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship on two occasions within the space of a month in 1992, defeating Jerry Lynn on February 7 and Ben Jordan on February 28 in Dallas, Texas. He remained in the GWF for two years until it declared bankruptcy. Horowitz also wrestled as a jobber in early 1992 for Smoky Mountain Wrestling.
Horowitz had in 1993 a title shot for WWF Tag Team Championship teaming with 1–2–3 Kid, that was chosen by Barry to replace an ill Reno Riggins, against The Quebecers that gave a title shot to Horowitz and Riggins to taunt former champions, The Steiner Brothers. Horowitz and 1–2–3 Kid lost after a very hard match. He then competed under a wrestling mask at WWF's 1993 Survivor Series as "The Red Knight", teaming with Shawn Michaels (who was substituting for Jerry Lawler) and the Black and Blue Knights to lose to Bret, Owen, Keith, and Bruce Hart. In 1995 he joined the WWF on a regular basis, and was given the gimmick of a career jobber who never won matches. Wearing suspenders, and a vest with an outline of a handprint on the back in the ring, and patting himself on the back as a self-congratulatory measure, Horowitz shocked play-by-play commentator Jim Ross by pinning Bodydonna Skip in 1995, provoking Ross to shout "Horowitz wins! Horowitz wins!" into his microphone in disbelief. Horowitz faced the vengeful Skip in a rematch at SummerSlam 1995, which he also won. Following his victory, Horowitz formed a tag team with the newly turned face Hakushi–whom he attempted to Americanize after beating him in another match no one thought he could win. His short-lived, new-found success earned him his first t-shirt and a spot in the 1996 Royal Rumble match, at the 25th entrant, where he was eliminated by Owen Hart. During this time WWF played up Horowitz's Jewish heritage, including making his entrance theme a rock version of the Jewish folk Song "Hava Nagila".
Horowitz's contract was not renewed by the WWF in 1997, and he joined World Championship Wrestling in 1998, signing a two year contract. Horowitz wrestled primarily on WCW Saturday Night before leaving WCW in 2000 and returning to the independent circuit. As of June 2005, he was working as a nutritionist in Florida while occasionally wrestling for local independent promotions.
He was featured on the (renamed) WWE's website "Where Are They Now?" column on October 22, 2008.
In wrestling
Championships and accomplishments
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- BCW Can-Am Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Otis Apollo
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- CWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time)
- Empire Wrestling Alliance
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- EWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
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- FOW Hardcore Championship (2 times)
- Independent Association of Wrestling
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- IAW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- IWA Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
- International Wrestling Association
- IWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[8]
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- MEWF Mid-Atlantic Championship (2 times)[9]
- New Breed Pro Wrestling
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- NBPW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- South Eastern Championship Wrestling
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- SECW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- SECW Television Championship (1 time)
- Other titles
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- RISE Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Barry Horowitz's profile". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/barry-horrowitz.html. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Barry Horowitz". http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/bios/horowitz.html. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
- ^ Intelius
- ^ World Wrestling Insanity: The .... May 28, 2006. http://books.google.com/books?id=Wb9Hcz8Ho_IC&pg=PA182&dq=%22Barry+Horowitz%22+jewish&hl=en&ei=VE9PTbOuEMSclgeBp_jZDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Barry%20Horowitz%22%20jewish&f=false. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ^ "I'm Next: The Strange Journey of ...". http://books.google.com/books?id=ZLNOJzPSlSkC&q=%22Barry+Horowitz%22+jewish&dq=%22Barry+Horowitz%22+jewish&hl=en&ei=VE9PTbOuEMSclgeBp_jZDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ^ a b c "The Official RSP-W Finishing Moves List". http://www.otherarena.com/nCo/finish/finish.html. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
- ^ "Bruno Lauer's profile". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/h/harvey-wippleman.html. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2000). Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ "Independent Wrestling Results – September 2002". Online World of Wrestling. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2002-09.html. Retrieved July 6, 2008.
- ^ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated Award Winners Inspirational Wrestler of the Year". Wrestling Information Archive. http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/pwi/pwiinsp.htm. Retrieved July 27, 2008.
References
External links
Categories:- 1959 births
- American professional wrestlers
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Jewish professional wrestlers
- Living people
- People from Florida
- People from Wilmette, Illinois
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