Barry Horowitz

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Barry Horowitz
Born (1960-03-24) March 24, 1960 (age 64)
St. Petersburg, Florida
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Barry Hart
Barry Horowitz
Jack Hart
The Red Knight
Major Yates
Billed height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Billed weight221 lb (100 kg)
Trained byBoris Malenko
Debut1979

Barry Horowitz (born on March 24, 1960 in St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his stint as a jobber in the World Wrestling Federation

He currently wrestles for the Border City Wrestling. he currently holds the BCW Can-Am Super World Heavyweight Championship.

Career

Horowitz 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 eighteen 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 competed under a wrestling mask at WWF's 1993 Survivor Series as The Red Knight, teaming with Shawn Michaels 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 in the ring and patting himself on the back as a self-congratulatory measure, Horowitz shocked (kayfabe) play-by-play commentator Jim Ross by pinning Bodydonna Skip in 1995, provoking Ross to shout "Horowitz wins!" into his microphone in disbelief. Horowitz faced the vengeful Skip in a match at SummerSlam 1995, which he also won. Following his victory, Horowitz formed a tag team with the newly turned face Hakushi (who he also beat in a match that no one expected him to win), who he attempted to Americanize. His short-lived, new-found success also earned him a spot in the 1996 Royal Rumble match, at the number 25 position, where he was eliminated by Owen Hart. During this time WWE played up Barry's Jewish heritage, including giving him as an 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.

Currently, Horowitz runs a catfish farm with his wife Rebecca in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves

Championships and accomplishments

  • CWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time)
  • Empire Wrestling Alliance
  • EWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Independent Association of Wrestling
  • IAW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • IWA Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
  • MEWF Mid-Atlantic Championship (2 times)[1]
  • New Breed Pro Wrestling
  • NBPW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • South Eastern Championship Wrestling
  • SECW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • SECW Television Championship (1 time)
  • Other Titles
  • RISE Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Notes

  1. ^ "Independent Wrestling Results - September 2002". onlineworldofwrestling.com. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
  2. ^ "Pro Wrestling Illustrated Award Winners Inspirational Wrestler of the Year". Wrestling Information Archive. Retrieved 2008-07-27.

References

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