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Blackjack Mulligan

Blackjack Mulligan
Ring name(s) Blackjack Mulligan
Big Bob Windham
Big Machine
Billed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)[1]
Billed weight 340 lb (150 kg)
Born November 26, 1942 (1942-11-26) (age 69)
Sweetwater, Texas
Billed from Eagle Pass, Texas
Trained by Verne Gagne
Debut 1967
Retired 1988

Robert Jack Windham (born November 26, 1942), better known by his ring name Blackjack Mulligan is a former professional wrestler and a former American football player. He is the father of wrestlers Barry and Kendall Windham, father-in-law of Mike Rotundo, and the grandfather of Husky Harris and Bo Rotundo.

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Career

As a young man, Windham played football at the Texas Western University. He then went on to play for the New York Jets during the 1966 pre-season and received tryouts with the New Orleans Saints and Denver Broncos. After football, at the urging of Wahoo McDaniel, Windham trained with Joe Blanchard in Corpus Christi, Texas and later with Verne Gagne and became a professional wrestler in the American Wrestling Association. He then moved to the World Wide Wrestling Federation and became the villain Blackjack Mulligan. At first Mulligan, donning black trunks, black hat, black glove, and using the iron claw submission hold, seemed to be an imitation of AWA wrestler Blackjack Lanza, managed by The Grand Wizard. Mulligan went on to greater success in the Northeast. He received a push and went on to wrestle Pedro Morales and Bruno Sammartino.

Mulligan returned to the Midwest and tagged with Lanza to form The Blackjacks. The duo went on to capture numerous tag team championships in various NWA affiliated promotions as well as the WWWF World Tag Team Championship in August 1975.

Blackjack returned to singles wrestling in the Jim Crockett Promotions where he would go onto hold the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and the Mid-Atlantic's version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship with a Ric Flair.

Mulligan often battled André the Giant, feuding in many different regions in the early 1980s. When they brought their feud to the WWF in 1982, Mulligan would go onto wrestle in Florida as a face. He often teamed with West Texas stars Dusty Rhodes, Dick Murdoch, and his son Barry Windham.

In 1986, Mulligan wrestled under a mask as "Big Machine," part of a team with "The Giant Machine" (André the Giant) and "Super Machine" (Bill Eadie) collectively known as The Machines. Later on, he traveled to Dallas and competed in World Class Championship Wrestling, as a heel, wrestling against Bruiser Brody, Chris Adams and Kevin and Lance Von Erich.

Mulligan and his Blackjacks partner, Jack Lanza were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 1, 2006 by their manager, Bobby Heenan.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

  • European Wrestling Union
  • IWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Larry Hennig
  • International Wrestling Federation
  • IWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

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