Arn Anderson Praises Barry Windham, Recalls His WCW World Title Win

On the latest episode of The ARN Show, Arn Anderson talked about Barry Windham beating The Great Muta for the WCW World Heavyweight Champion at SuperBrawl III. You can check out some highlights below:

On Barry Windham becoming WCW Champion: “Well deserved, and a good match. Muta [was] a great performer as well. Good-looking babyface, all the things fall into a line. What a teaser there at the end.”

On Great Muta dropping the title to Windham: “Well, universally, everybody in every corner of the world knew what a classic talent Barry Windham was. He was well-known everywhere. I would suggest no corner of the Earth, if there had wrestling anything — shows on the air production, local territory, whatever it may be. They knew Barry Windham and what he brought to the table.”

On Barry becoming WCW champ at this time: “Well, he could have become World Champion during the Crockett era. There was room for that, for sure. I wouldn’t say Ronnie Garvin was a bad move at all because the fact is, Ronnie Garvin got red hot through his work. And he wasn’t the biggest guy. He was on a crew full of big, jacked-up guys, tremendous talents, and tremendous workers and big personalities. And through all that, Ronnie Garvin started to shine, because he would just beat the crap out of you. And that was what he hung his hat on. He was just his physical, if not the most physical, guy on the crew to work with. And he got red hot. And if you would’ve ignored him at that time, that would’ve been a real injustice…

“Well, long overdue for Barry. Barry could have very easily been a World Champion for a period time during the Crockett years. We know that. That was, you know, he was just that good. And I think the frustration he felt when he figured out that Flair was snapping him up, he was again stealing part of his spotlight. And that was the frustration that you saw on Barry’s face like, ‘Hey, this is my night. At least let me have my victory. Let me have my night becoming the champion. We don’t need Ric in the shot at all.’ And I’m sure that was very, very real.”

On how Barry is doing today: “He’s doing fine. He actually stayed [at one of the conventions] — you know, I want to say he signed for probably six hours. And I talked to him for just a minute. We were really, really busy that — I mean, our fans came out and supported us. It was incredible. I barely had time to take a bathroom break. But I looked down there, Barry had a lot of people there. Glad to see him, and he was there for quite a while.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit The ARN Show with an h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.