Bobby Duncum Jr.

**Bobby Duncum, Jr.** (August 26, 1965 - January 24, 2000) was an American professional wrestler, who had a very short stint in ECW but was best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling.

## Bobby Duncum Jr.

### Burial

Holliman Cemetery in Milam County, Texas; body originally donated to the University of Texas

## Professional wrestling stats

### Trained by

Dory Funk, Jr., Terry Funk, Skandor Akbar

## Early life

Bobby Edward Duncum Jr. was born in Amarillo, Texas, on August 26, 1965, the son of veteran wrestler Bobby Duncum. He was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he played collegiate football. He later played professionally for the Dallas Texans of the Arena Football League,

## Professional wrestling career

Bobby Duncum Jr. began his wrestling career on the Texan independent circuit in 1990. He formed a team called the **Texas Mustangs** with Johnny Hawk in the Global Wrestling Federation. WWE fans may know Hawk better as John "Bradshaw" Layfield, or simply **JBL**. They won the Tag Team Titles from Black Bart and Johnny Mantel and kept them for about two months before losing them to **The Bad Breed** (Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten).

In the mid 1990's Duncam Jr. had a brief spell in ECW and was successful in All Japan Pro Wrestling where he frequently teamed with Stan Hansen, who popularised the Texan cowboy persona which Duncam Jr. had adopted. He usually split his time wrestling in each promotion.

   His biggest success came in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Duncum originally made his debut for the company as a babyface. He faced Chris Jericho in a World Television Championship match. He beat Jericho but it was a win by countout meaning he didn't get the title. He failed to win the title in a rematch at the World War 3 event as Duncum was pinned by Jericho.

Duncum earned his greatest success as a member of the **West Texas Rednecks**. This group was comprised of Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig, Barry Windham and his brother Kendall. They were originally supposed to be a heels against rapper Master P's **No Limit Soldiers** but the southern wrestling fans of WCW cheered them and booed the rappers.

While Hennig and Barry would contend for the World Tag Team Championship, Duncum would compete in singles matches on Saturday Night and Thunder, including an unsuccessful attempt at winning the World Television Championship from Booker T on the April 15 episode of Thunder.

At The Great American Bash, Duncum and Hennig lost to Konnan and Rey Mysterio Jr. of the No Limit Soldiers in a tag team match. Less than a month later, the Rednecks lost to the Soldiers once again at Bash at the Beach in an elimination tag team match. Following the end of their feud with the Soldiers, the Rednecks made their final pay-per-view appearance at Road Wild on August 14, where Duncum, Barry and Hennig lost to The Revolution (Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn and Shane Douglas) in a six-man tag team match.

Twelve days later on *Thunder*, Duncum made his final televised appearance as he, Barry and Kendall Windham lost to The Filthy Animals (Eddy Guerrero, Kidman and Rey Mysterio Jr). They disbanded in October of 1999.

## Death

Duncum was found dead of an apparent drug overdose aged 34 on January 24, 2000, at 5:00 in the morning by his roommate. Reports from stations KEYE-42 and KTBC Fox 7 in Austin mentioned that he had gone through a divorce. An autopsy revealed that Duncum overdosed on fentanyl, a painkiller that can be up to 100 times more potent than morphine. He did not have a prescription for the drug, and was supplied it by a relative. He had three patches of the drug.