WWE Corridor of Famer Mike Rotunda is in hospice care, in keeping with his family and friends.
“It breaks my heart to share that my friend Mike Rotunda has been placed under hospice care,” former WWE wrestler Leilani Kai wrote on social media Tuesday morning, together with a photograph of the 2 hugging earlier this yr.
“Please keep Mike and the Rotunda family in your prayers. We love you, Mike,” she stated.
Barry Windham, Rotunda’s brother-in-law and former WWE tag workforce companion, spoke about his situation over the weekend at a conference in Florida.
“It’s kind of tough… Mike is in hospice right now,” he stated in an interview with wrestling journalist Invoice Apter. “So, anyway, that family — I love that family. But, it’s so tragic.”
Neither Kai nor Windham supplied further details about what led to Rotunda getting into hospice care, however stated the state of affairs is particularly unhappy given the loss the household has already suffered.
In 2023, Rotunda’s son, Windham Rotunda, who wrestled as Bray Wyatt, died from a coronary heart assault on the age of 36. One other son, Taylor Rotunda, wrestles within the WWE as Bo Dallas and his alter ego Uncle Howdy.
Mike Rotunda poses for a photograph in 1985 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photograph by Invoice Apter/WWE by way of Getty Pictures)
Throughout his a long time in professional wrestling, Rotunda was recognized for tag workforce partnerships comparable to U.S. Specific with Windham and in Cash Inc. as Irwin R. Schyster (aka IRS) with Ted “The Million Dollar Man” DiBiase. He additionally wrestled as Michael Wallstreet.
Rotunda was additionally a part of the NWO steady in WCW, and wrestled for promotions like NJPW and NWA.
Alongside Windham, Rotunda was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2024.
