Heel Bob Backlaund was awesome

[b. woods]

Jim Ross

0:26-36
That bow tie

 

[b. woods]

That match with Bret at Survivor Series 94 is so damn compelling. Breh had Bret in the crossface chickenwing meanwhile Owen was on the floor causing fukkery with Stu and Helen.

**watching Bret get choked out**
Owen: "That's my brother. "
**after Helen throws in the towel**
Owen: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! "

Owen played that role to perfection.

 

[TL15]

I knew wrestling was fake but man I hated him as a kid

now

 

[Arcavian]

I dont know shyt about Bob Backlund

 

[Da_Eggman]

I dont know shyt about Bob Backlund

Was champ for 6 years pre Hogan kinda the Kurt Angle of his time

lost the belt to the Iron Shiek when his manager threw in the towel when he was in the camel clutch

left WWF in 1984 never came back to 1992

 

[Max.]

Looks like he could be the miz dad

 

[Leonard Washington]

This is where The Drip Gawd is heading character wise

 

[patscorpio]

Golden Age WWF during Backlund's reign as the champ.

Still remember when he did the Harvard Step Test during the entire broadcast to show his endurance.

Him being bland worked well to balance all the over the top characters of his era.

His heel turn was the most unexpected one ever.

That heel mr bob backlund gimmick was gold..an out of touch ranting dangerous old school wrestler with an over finisher and dressed like howdy doody using big words obnoxiously. He deserved more than a 3 day reign.

 

[TripleAgent]

I forgot how dope Bob Mr. Backlund was

 

[Metal Face]

mfer doing a handstand at 70 years old

 

[Reggie]

I legit thought that Backlund had lost it during that run at various times. He just and still doesn't seem to be all the way there.

 

[supertrekker]

Bob Backlund to Mr. Backlund was like Walter White to Heisenberg

 

[patscorpio]

I legit thought that Backlund had lost it during that run at various times. He just and still doesn't seem to be all the way there.

The power of old school kayfabe

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Yeah it was definitely a case of "boring has-been face" that the mid 90s weren't messing with anymore when he first came back. He had been gone for like 10 years then came back with the same gimmick, same wrestling style. He was not colorful, not "cool", and not young.

Even when he turned later on, some of the great work he did was overshadowed by still being an old over the hill wrestler. "get off my tv heat". It didn't help his matches were atrocious for that era, but the pure character work in some of his non wrestling segments are absolute gold now.

@CM Punk

Spoiler

 

[Ruby'sRevolver]

Loved the character but didn't understand why they felt the need to bury him after winning the title. Not only did it bury him but it also buried Bret who was having 20 minute death struggles with Backlund and yet Diesel beats him in 5 seconds. LOL, I don't get the logic behind that at all.

How do you go from this


To this

It makes to no sense to me. They could've easily put the belt on Diesel without burying the fukk out of Backlund (and Bret) and there was no reason to do that and kill off all of Bob's heat. There was still a lot they could've gotten out of that character IMO, but instead they buried him and turned him into a joke.