Barry Buchanan (b. 1968)
Alias:
B-2
Barry Bret
Bo Buchanan
Buchanan
Bull Buchanan
B²
Lord Humongous
Mr. Buchanan
Recon
Sam McGraw
The Punisher
The Truth Commission
Birthplace:
Bowdon, Georgia, USA
Born:
January 15, 1968
Barry Buchanan is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment as Bull Buchanan in Right to Censor and as John Cena's enforcer, B-2. Buchanan is an accomplished tag team wrestler having held three major tag team championships, the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship with Rico, the GHC Tag Team Championship with D'lo Brown and the WWF Tag Team Championship with The Goodfather. Buchanan has also enjoyed singles success on the independent circuit. On October 30, 2004, Buchanan and AJ Steele defeated David Young and Sonny Siaki to become the GCW Tag Team Champions but a week later, Steele would turn on him and teamed up with Damien Steel in a two on one handicapped match for the titles which the Steele Brothers won. Buchanan formed a stable called Bad Company which consisted of himself, David Young and The Grappler. In late 2004, Buchanan and The Grappler took on The Steele Brothers for the GCW Tag Team Championship and lost. On April 23, 2005, Buchanan and Young defeated Southside Trash (Big Daddy and Rowdy) for the GCW Tag Team Championship.[33] on July 11, they lost the titles to John Bogie and Lee Thomas.Over a year later on December 13, 2006, Buchanan and Johnny Swinger defeated The Diamonds In The Rough (David Young and Elix Skipper) to become a three time GCW Tag Team Champion.They would hold the titles for 56 days before losing them to the NOW (Hale Collins and Vik Dalishus). On September 29, 2007, Buchanan defeated former tag team partner, Johnny Swinger, to become the GCW Heavyweight Champion. In December, Buchanan would lose the title back to Swinger. He would challenge Swinger to several rematches but lost his first and won the second via DQ, therefore not winning the title back. In mid-2008, Buchanan would team up with another former partner, David Young, and Sonny Siaki Although neither of them had a tag team title shot, the three of them earned a shot a Swinger heavyweight title and in a four-way elimination match, Swinger came out on top.On June 27, 2008, Buchanan and Scotty Beach defeated Hot Like Lava (Cru Jones and Shaun Banks) for the GCW Tag Team Championship. They held the titles until September 18 when they lost them to Micah Taylor defeats Cru Jones.On January 28, 2010, Buchanan defeated Kyle Matthews to become a two time GCW Heavyweight Champion, however, he would lose it to Murder-1 on February 11. For the rest of 2010, Buchanan had multiple title shots but failed to capitalize on any of them. Buchanan worked mainly for Universal Independent Wrestling in Georgia in his final years as a performer. Retirement (2014)