10 Original Failed WWE Pushes You Completely Forgot About
7. Barry Windham - The Widowmaker
Vince McMahon's failure to bring Ric Flair into the fold in 1988 ultimately robbed the company of a dream match with Hulk Hogan years before The Chairman simply didn't see the appeal for WrestleMania several years later. More's the pity too - he had every other Horseman on the books a year later.
Just months removed from Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard's arrival, JJ Dillon took a front office job with the company, and just a short time after that, Barry Windham was also on board.
A beloved babyface and hated heel for years in the NWA, Windham's character was watered down to being neither one nor the other as the barely villainous Widowmaker in mid-1989. His aesthetic shared that of his most recent run with the opposition, but a series of televised squash didn't come with any of the heat big Baz should have brought along with him.
A heel by default, the closest he came to an actual angle was working that year's Survivor Series before he left the company ahead of the show. His latter spells as The Stalker and member of The New Blackjacks didn't move many needles, but at least left a deeper footprint in company history than the flawed first attempt.