Former WWE Champion Bob Backlund on Andre Harley Race Jimmy Snuka Ric Flair and The Iron Sheik
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- Former WWE Champion Bob Backlund on Andre Harley Race Jimmy Snuka Ric Flair and The Iron Sheik
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Pedro,Bruno and Bob were my absolute favorite Champions of all time.
Bob was and absolute stud and an excellent champ and babyface.
Love it
Amazing to hear them talking to Backlund (and he was my hero when I was a kid) and he's still not used to breaking kayfabe. He's talking about the match as if he's talking in 1985. It must be hard for older guys to drop the guard and not to feel like they have to protect the business all the time.
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Kayfabe was the religion of wrestlers . Many find it insulting to hear outsiders using business lingo . They were the last of the secret society . So yeah some have accepted Kayfabe is dead but most don‘t like it . Bob is and always was loyal and by the book and spent his whole career protecting the business
@@pooddescrewch8718 true
You can tell he respected Harley Race. It's almost like awe in his voice when talking about him.
Yes
Can't think of anyone who didn't respect him, genuinely
@@TheOneAndOnlyZelenkaGuru agreed
It sounds redundant but Bob Backlund is a legend. I love his book and I especially love the interviews from other wrestlers included in the pages. Harley Race greatly emphasized Mr. Backlund's toughness in a couple of excerpts.
You are correct icon
Could you imagine Bob Backlund vs Kurt Angle. Both being in their prime.
That would be a great match
That would have been unreal
Bill Eadie , a very strong man , said that Bob was one of the most powerful men he had ever been in the ring with . Consider he wrestled Blackjack Mulligan , Andre the Giant and The Road Warriors .
Good comment
Mr. Backlund's book is a great, fun and totally enjoyable read!
I was fortunate enough to meet him so many times from 1980 - 1982 at the old Boston Garden. I was 16 to 18 years old and I loved wrestling and at the Garden the wrestlers had to walk through the main concourse to get to the dressing rooms. If you got there early enough you could see many of them come in. Or if you were getting a soda or snack or had to use the restroom during the show you could see some wrestlers leaving.
I have quite a few photos of Backlund, Sammartino, Andre, Don Muraco, the Samoans Rick Martel , Hogan and more who were all so very kind and generous with their time. Very fond memories with my friends, family and meeting so many legendary wrestlers as well as other fans.
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Damn it man, I want to read that book and I cant found it, there's no one single copy or even pdf outside US
Great book by Bob. Great career too.
Such respect for this man
Snuka gets legendary treatment because of that leap off the cage meanwhile Adrian Adonis did it months earlier in Minnesota
@@KeithFroehlich07 good comment
Great book reading it now best wrestling book I ever read I met Bob at the Balto civic center a few years ago what a guy
Thank you
I'm an old NYC boy (Bronx) and Bob was my idol. I would have anxiety when Bob wrestled the momentary heel; Mulligan, Studd, Slaughter, Koloff, Muraco, Hansen (not Swede), Masked Superstar, Adonis, Valentine, Hogan etc... Those were magic times. Kids have everything today but they have nothing
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I went to the garden every month for years. I really liked backlund. The fans did also. When bob won the title, the place erupted. It was louder than when bruno was on the card. My friend, about 14, but short... was picked up and held high by some spanish guy next to us. The guy was holding benny up and yelling... rice and beans! Rice and beans! The audience that night was louder than any i ever seen at a fight, concert, any event to this day... 40 something years later. I think the next loudest was when bruno got revenge on hanson in shea stadium
Love this we also went to MSG often. Those days were just so important to us
I was there every month in 1979. Backlund is a large part of why WWE is what it is now.
Backlund actually beat the Iron Sheik years before losing the championship to him. It was in Madison Square Garden. Sheik had won a 30 man-over-the-top battle royal earlier to get the opportunity to face Backlund for the title later that same night. However, he didn’t wrestle under the name Iron Sheik at that time, instead it was the Great Houssein Arab.
you know your stuff
I was there too: he was the Great Hussein Arab of Iran. Remember it very well. FIfth row ringside: $12.00. Also got spit on by Bulldog Brower!
Don't forget Hogan against Andre in 1980 at Shea!
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 yes
Yep.
In the 1970s the boss's daughter, Bonnie, and her husband David bought a house in Glastonbury CT, after David was promoted to an Aetna VP. She was visiting the shop once and asked If I ever heard of the world wrestling champion, Bob Backlund. She said Bob lived in Glastonbury (or at least the area) -that they were friends and praised Bob up and down for doing an awful lot of work with children. She said he'd never turn into a bad guy and create a situation where those kids would not be able to look up to him.
Skip ahead ten years and I'm now a subscriber to Meltzer. (4-issue sets for $____), And Wade Keller, And a guy from the Midwest whose name was something like Jon McGlocklin. One of these guys one week started discussing how Vince wanted Bob to dye his hair black and turn heel. That's when the ding-ding-ding went off in my head and said: 'This is why Bob got that square crewcut and started wearing the singlet. He couldn't possibly dye his hair black if there was nothing to dye. There was no way he'd have let those kids down by doing that. I've never been able to confirm this in any Backlund interview. But for 35+ years this has been the gut feeling that it was Bob's way of saying to Vince that I told you absolutely not. So now you'll stop. Vince didn't have much use for Bob after he changed his look and soon he was gone for years until the Mr Backlund gimmick.
I understand Bob's not doing all that well (I think he stays in touch with Ken Patera and Ken said sometimes he will call and is really out there.) But if he ever makes another appearance it would be great to get the straight skinny on the crewcut and singlet change. And if this old hunch was right.
Well you found the right interview
Bob tells why he would not turn heel
Go to our playlist or search the last great interview with Bob Backlund to hear the story. Thanks for commenting
These are questions I would've asked him; how he felt about losing to the Sheik and if the after-match imterview with Alfred was real emotion or not. Thanks!
Thank you please go to the full interview it is there
"I let him think he was gonna get me". Poor Bob.
We think he was trying to sell the story
Great shape still wow
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The only NWA champion Bob had matches with that could have possibly double crossed him is Jack Brisco a fellow collegiate national champion
good comment
I liked Bob backlund when he wrestled.
We did also
Bob backlund very classy guy
Did you watch the full interview?
I really miss this era of pro wrestling.
It was great
Harley showing mad respect to BB
Yes
Bob was a great wrestler both amateur and professional. He could tell a story in the ring. He just couldn’t articulate it in the pre matches. I would love to see Bob and Kurt Angle in there prime wrestle a marathon match.
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Bob Backland wad strong he had skills that other so called wrestlers didn't have Shawn Michaels Hulk Hogan to me they were Entertainers in the ring🤔
@@GreenDot-dw4gr thank you for commenting
Bob looks like mickey roonie in this clip
LOL
Is there any option to get that book online in pdf or somewhere ?
Amazon
Or write our web page monteandthepharaoh.com we can help get you one
Snuka could have been in Hogan‘s spot had he been more stable . I do not have a hard time believing Jimmy Snuka was completely out of control .
Lots of documented stuff on Snukas antics
As much as I love that family. I COMPLETELY believe he killed her, but I don’t think it was intentional. I believe he snapped. All in all, he should’ve gone to prison for her death, back in 1983.
I feel like Bob basically said he didn’t hang out with bad/troublesome company. AND, perhaps he’s suggesting that Snuka was considered bad company.
Agreed
I agree with the Iron Sheik analysis from a fan viewpoint. Iron Sheik better than all those he listed? No way. But this was just a transition to Hogan.
Thank you
Bob showed some nice color during his career.
Yes true
@@montethepharaohli1prowrestling at first I think he was gigged by his opponent until he got the hang of it. Not too sure though
@@Coodeville could have been both ways
It looks like Adonis legit broke Bob's nose in one of their matches.
Bob can pound beers . Ask Raven .
Lol
You’d think that Bob was talking about heroin and not weed.
@@BernardMarx95 lol
Maybe there is a group of 10 greatest and then there might be a greatest of different categories, promos, storytelling, popularity, money, championship run, scientific ability and then it still comes down to who is YOUR favorite of that group? There is no ONE greatest of all time if you ask me.
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8:09 who was the guy with the amateur wrestling background who was smoking the Doobie? Iron Sheik? Not sure who in the “kliq” was an amateur wrestler
Brisco
@@montethepharaohli1prowrestling why did it bother him that a disco did it, but had nothing but respect for Iron Sheik. Who appears to have had horrible drug issues
@@Ditka-89 i guess he did not like weed and was disappointed
Brisco was and still is a notorious Reefer smoker . I am surprised Backlund had no inkling til then .
@@pooddescrewch8718 true
Masked Superstar was my favorite. Really wanted to see him take the strap from Backlund.
Nice
In spite of his great wrestling talent, he wasn't far enough up the card in most territories for that to happen.
Before anyone gets angry let me first say I am autistic . My question to viewers is … Do you ever suspect that Bobby is autistic as well ? I have noticed some markers in his behavior , his attitude and his speech that lead me to that suspicion . I had for years heard people speak on Bobby being a little different . It seems to me its more autism than just Kind of Crazy .
love the comments thank you keep them coming
Harley woulda kicked his ass lol
Hmmmm
Bob was a bonafide world class wrestler. Bob would have thrown Harley around until he got dizzy and went unconscious!
@@depper we agree
Both of them could really go. I don't think either of them could kick the ass of the other. Race wins on strikes. Bob wins if its grappeling.
Backlund was as tough as they came and had it all and held the northeast world title for Six Years, so don't be too sure.