Various: Barry Windham Health Update, Josh Alexander on Staying in Impact, Tales From The Territories Ratings

Dec 10, 2022

Bary Windham Stabilized & Out of ICU Following Heart Attack

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Barry Windham suffered a heart attack earlier this month and had been in ICU care since this past Monday.

Windham’s niece Mika Routunda recently provided an update on Twitter stating that Windham’s health situation recently stabilized and he was moved out of ICU as a result.

Thank you to all who have reached out, prayed, contributed and sent well wishes to my Uncle Barry this week.

I wanted to give an update!
I’m grateful to say he is stabilized & out of ICU. Talking & able to stand.

Thanks again everyone!❤️
There absolutely is power in prayer.
— Mika Rotunda (@MikaRotunda) December 9, 2022

Josh Alexander Comments on Offer from AEW & Staying in Impact

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast had Josh Alexander as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Alexander’s reasons for signing a new contract with Impact Wrestling earlier this year despite having an offer from AEW at the time.

“It was definitely on the table and it was definitely a thought and all this other stuff. But I wouldn’t say it was too close because with all the stuff that had been happening and IMPACT I really felt like [I should stay]. And like also happening in AEW, with me watching every week, I still watch everything to this day. But I just like for me as a pro-wrestler, my fulfilment of what I do is to go out there and wrestle and show what I can do. I think my benefit is bell to bell, that is where I will gain notoriety, that is where I will show my worth in the pro-wrestling scene. And at the time watching AEW, it didn’t look like a lot of people were getting opportunities to do that stuff outside of like the top 20 people that were on the roster. You’d see people shuffle in and out and shuffle in and out it out there. They get their runs for a few weeks, and they go back to shorter matches on AEW Dark and it was just IMPACT has been so good to me.
[Impact] were the first company that gave me an opportunity and got me that visa, did this stuff and like it’s all been roses since I got there man, I won the tag belts three months after I signed and got there. And I had the longest running tag team championship run, you know, and then as soon as Ethan left, everything’s like going through your mind. And I was stressing out being like man, I hope I don’t sit on the bench and just have to watch the shows until they figure out what they’re gonna do with me. And immediately, I got an opportunity in the X-Division. And you know, that happened and was awesome and all this other stuff. It was just opportunity after opportunity.
I think all you can ask for as a wrestler is for an opportunity to show what you can do. Give me the ball and if I drop it, that’s fine. But you know, they’ve given me the ball a ton of times, and I don’t think I’ve dropped it yet. So, I’m just gonna ride this out and see how it goes.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

Tales From The Territories Ratings – Dec. 6, 2022 – Down

This past Tuesday’s season finale episode of Tales From The Territories drew 75,000 viewers on VICE TV, down from last week’s 98,000 viewers, according to Wrestlenomics.

It drew a 0.02 rating in the 18-49 demographic, same from last week’s rating. It was not ranked in the Top 150 shows for the night.

This episode focused on the classic Mid-South Wrestling promotion.