(1958-03-30) March 30, 1958 (age 66)[1][2] St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.[3]
Alma mater
Syracuse University[1][4]
Spouse(s)
Stephanie Windham
Children
3, including Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas
Family
Blackjack Mulligan (father-in-law) Barry Windham (brother-in-law) Kendall Windham (brother-in-law)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Irwin R. Schyster (IRS)[1] Michael Wallstreet[1] Mike Drond Mike Rotunda Mike Rotundo Mr. Wallstreet V.K. Wallstreet[1]
Billed height
6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[5]
Billed weight
248 lb (112 kg)[5]
Billed from
Washington, D.C. (as Irwin R. Schyster)[5][6]
Trained by
The Destroyer[4]
Debut
1981[1][2]
Retired
December 10, 2007
Lawrence Michael Rotunda (born March 30, 1958) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling in the 1980s and 1990s under the ring names Mike Rotunda, Mike Rotundo, Michael Wallstreet, Irwin R. Schyster, and V.K. Wallstreet.[1][2][4]
Rotunda held numerous singles and tag team championships including the NWA World Tag Team Championship, NWA World Television Championship and WWF World Tag Team Championship. On July 23, 2022, he was inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame[5][7][8]and as a member of The U.S. Express, Rotunda and Barry Windham were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in April 2024.
^ abcdefghHornbaker, Tim (January 3, 2017). Legends of Pro Wrestling: 150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-61321-875-4.
^ abcHarris M. Lentz III (January 1, 2003). Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7864-1754-4.
^"Mike Rotunda". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
^ abcMurphy, Ryan (August 14, 2009). "Where are they now? Mike Rotundo". WWE.com. WWE. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
^ abcd"Irwin R. Schyster". WWE.com. WWE. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
^Pantaleo, Steve (March 24, 2015). WWE Ultimate Superstar Guide. DK Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-241-23501-0.
^Pope, Kristian (August 28, 2005). Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling Field Guide: Legend and Lore. Krause Publications. p. 384. ISBN 0-89689-267-0.
^Paustian, Joyce (July 24, 2022). "STRATUS, ROTUNDA, J.R. ON TOP AT TRAGOS/THESZ INDUCTION". Slamwrestling.net. Slam Wrestling. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
1990s under the ring names MikeRotunda, Mike Rotundo, Michael Wallstreet, Irwin R. Schyster, and V.K. Wallstreet. Rotunda held numerous singles and tag...
Bray Wyatt. Rotunda was a third-generation wrestler, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Blackjack Mulligan, his father MikeRotunda, and his uncles...
of The Wyatt Sicks. Rotunda is a third-generation professional wrestler; his grandfather Blackjack Mulligan, his father MikeRotunda, his uncles Barry and...
the father of wrestlers Barry and Kendall Windham, father-in-law of MikeRotunda, and the maternal grandfather of Bo Dallas and Bray Wyatt. As a young...
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marked the final match in Kendall's career. Windham retired in 2002. MikeRotunda is married to Windham's sister. His nephews, Windham and Taylor, wrestled...
with "Mean" Mark Callous as "The Skyscrapers" in WCW and teaming with MikeRotunda to form The American Express in WWF. He started his career teaming with...
Steiner who was of University of Michigan's and Syracuse University's MikeRotunda in early 1988. The group would wear the letterman jackets of their respective...
as The Varsity Club along with MikeRotunda and their manager Kevin Sullivan, with the long-term angle being that Rotunda was favored by Sullivan and both...
aired head-to-head with WWF WrestleMania IV. In a "College Rules" match, MikeRotunda won with a cradle for the one-count pin 1:10 into the second round. In...
by "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and MikeRotunda after Williams pinned Adams after delivering the Doctor Bomb. Mike Barton and Jim Steele would go onto...
Steve Williams, KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark), Bill Goldberg and MikeRotunda. Not long after George Hines and Johnny Smith also left. By mid-2005...
Spivey trained together in Florida (mainly under Rhodes, but also under MikeRotunda and Barry Windham). When it was time for the two to debut as a tag team...
concerns with the advertisement's content. U.S. professional wrestler MikeRotunda, using the ring name Irwin R. Schyster (abbreviated to "I.R.S.") portrayed...
eventually team with each other later that year in October. Jim Steele and MikeRotunda would join them in three-way or four-way tag team matches whenever the...
surprise partners, the newly reunited Varsity Club (Kevin Sullivan, MikeRotunda, and Rick Steiner), faced the Revolution in a losing effort after the...
of authority; examples include Big Boss Man, a corrections officer; MikeRotunda as Irwin R. Schyster, a federal tax collector; Jacques Rougeau wearing...
Varsity Club member MikeRotunda for the NWA World TV Title at Clash of the Champions I event during March of that year. Rotunda pinned Jimmy to retain...
with Johnny Smith and Jim Steele in a 6-man tag team match defeating MikeRotunda, Curt Hennig and Barry Windham (substituting for Kendall Windham) at...
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