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(FPD) Barry Windham

Fire Pro Wrestling D official Spike edit version of Barry Windham. Full stats, full moveset, full logic. Everything comes from the Fire Pro Wrestling D Dreamcast game. Just one costume because that's all that the Spike edits came with.

In FPD, this edit was listed as "fictional?" in the fan-made readme file. However, I think that it's Barry Windham. I'll explain why below.

Similar birthdate. It's 30 March 1963 in FPD and on Wikipedia it's 4 July 1960. FPD usually got the birthdates correct but not always, particularly with these edit packs. For the more obscure wrestlers, they didn't always get it right. I'm not sure if Wikipedia existed when FPD was released (2001).

Height and weight are within the range that Wikipedia gives.

Similar appearance. They used Chris Jericho's head and that's what I used here too. In his heyday Barry Windham was clean-shaven and in pretty good shape. But certainly by 1993, he had a beard and was out of shape. You can see a match with Sting here for an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clsmGtQ0EjE

Same blonde hair, brown beard, and black tights. In that video he has kneepads but that's a minor difference.

When I translated his Japanese name in FPD, I got "Gnu Pack of Four". Something like that. This could be a reference to "New Four Horsemen". Barry Windham was a later member of the Four Horsemen.

You look at his moves on Wikipedia and it's similar to this edit. His finishing move according to Wikipedia is a leaping lariat. This edit has that and it's a pretty unusual move to use. Clawhold is also listed and he has two choking moves, which aren't quite clawhold but similar. A lot of suplexes according to Wikipedia and this edit has a lot of suplexes. Dropkick, eye rake, he has those too. He has most of these moves listed in the Wikipedia. He also has a lot of heel moves and he was a heel in his later career.

Also, in 2000, Barry Windham was wrestling in Japan. FPD came out in 2001. Could be somebody at Spike saw him.

Why it may not be Barry Windham: giant-sized forearms with medium-sized upper arms. Was he known for having huge forearms?

He's listed as being from "Parts Unknown".

Anyway, I think it's Barry Windham but I'm not the biggest Barry Windham fan or the biggest wrestling fan so I may be wrong. If anyone has a better idea, let me know. I'm pretty sure that it's somebody because all the other edits in that pack are based on real people (except the last two, which I think are both based on video game characters). And they wouldn't make a ficticious character look so boring with just regular moves.