As American as apple pie, Bob Backlund experienced success ... where he won the NCAA Division II heavyweight wrestling championship – Backlund had the rare combination of good looks, pure ...

matched Bob's graft. Even so, he only eliminated two wrestlers during a marathon performance. They'd be (a pre-Rikishi) Fatu and Rick Martel. Backlund was positively spent by the time he was ...

At the peak of his wrestling career, in the 1980s, Vaziri faced off against other greats in the ring including Bob Backlund, Sgt Slaughter and Hulk Hogan. He defeated Backlund for the WWF World ...

The Iron Sheik became WWE Champion the day after Christmas in 1983 when he defeated Bob Backlund at Madison ... which put professional wrestling in the mainstream light for the first time.