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kek what the fuck were they thinking with backlund?

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 04:50:21 No.12836450 View View Reply Original Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKIUtcZLpJc

was vince sr. a bad booker too?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 04:54:49 No.12836480 Report

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Bruno said Backlund would never draw as champion so Sr did everything he could to prove him wrong and refused to take the belt off him.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 07:42:21 No.12837601 Report

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>>12836450
Backlund could twist most of today's wrestlers into a fucking pretzel

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 13:40:54 No.12839382 Report

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>>12837601
This. They could put him in the ring at the age he is in OP pic and bring one wwe fag they have today out at a time and Backlund could kick every one of their ass in a row without taking a break hole thing would probably last about 30min then bring the women out to vs him 5 at a time and it would last about 5min

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 13:55:50 No.12839444 Report

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>>12836450
Backlund has some incredible Cage match title defenses against Jimmy Snuka and Stan Hansen. I don't think I've seen 2 shitty Backlund title defenses in a row. He is extremely underrated. He just needed to turn heel around '80 and he would've been remembered in a better light. He was stronger than Brock Lesnar.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 14:28:16 No.12839646 Report

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My only recollection of Backlund was during his awesome mid 90s heel run (drew legit heat from me as a kid).
I read his book though and I gained a lot of respect for him. Here's a dude came from nothing and got to where he was by just working his ass off, doing what was asked of him and never played political games. There's something classically meritocratic American Dream about him. He was a complete boy scout too. There's a funny story in his book where he's riding with some of the other wrestlers and Dusty starts smoking weed in the car, so Bob makes them pull over and let him out so he can walk home.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 14:31:46 No.12839668 Report

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Backlund was based.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 14:33:32 No.12839683 Report

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>>12836450
Like a lot of the territory bookers, Sr was very spiteful, and wouldn't do what's best for business like 80s Vince Jr. Read up on Sr, and you see him making the same territory mistakes of pushing people he personally likes, and burying the people's favorites out of spite.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 14:42:54 No.12839749 Report

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>>12839444
>He was stronger than Brock Lesnar.
lmao ok boomer

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 15:27:27 No.12840040 Report

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>>12839646
The Backlund heel run was amazing..pity he didn't have a longer run as champ

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Fair-minded Anon !15tVOT4mb. Wed 03 Jan 2024 15:47:55 No.12840146 Report

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Backlund was based

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 16:09:56 No.12840283 Report

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okay but why was he crying over his belt doe

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Fair-minded anon !!Ht/oMGOvLa3 Wed 03 Jan 2024 16:19:40 No.12840347 Report

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>>12839749
He was really strong but prime Lesnar is probably the strongest guy in the history of the business

Dr Death Steve Williams is another guy with freakish strength in his prime

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 16:21:20 No.12840358 Report

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>>12840040
Making him immediately drop the belt in a squash to Diesel and kill his run obviously didn't have the level of disastrous consequences for business that Starrcade '97, fingerpoke of doom, Bash at the Beach 2000, etc. had, but purely in terms of the quality of the creative decision it borderline deserves to be thought of in the same way.

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Fair-minded anon !!Ht/oMGOvLa3 Wed 03 Jan 2024 16:23:52 No.12840368 Report

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>>12840358
Well, Backlund was on a heel run and he had to put someone over. WWF was desperate to make new big time babyfaces at the time.

I don't think pushing Diesel was a wrong decision (giving him the belt at a fucking house show was though, what the hell), it's more than Nash just sucked too bad to do anything with it.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:12:50 No.12840694 Report

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>>12840368
It's more the fact that they created one of the most memorable heel gimmicks of all time and then just dropped it after a transitional reign. Not sayimg he should have held it for a year, and I don't know that era well enough to say who they should have had him put over instead, but unless it was Backlund who only wanted to be there for a short period of time I don't know why you wouldn't try to get at least a few years out of the Mr. Backlund character.

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Fair-minded anon !!Ht/oMGOvLa3 Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:14:30 No.12840705 Report

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>>12840694
I love Backlund's heel run but the company was actively going down the tubes before, during, and after, so what other choice did they have?

You don't turn business around with Backlund's heel gimmick, as good as it was, so moving on from him was the right move (out of pure desperation)

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:25:58 No.12840794 Report

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>>12840705
>You don't turn business around with Backlund's heel gimmick, as good as it was, so moving on from him was the right move (out of pure desperation)
Building around someone else was the right move, but I don't see why they didn't keep him around for a while lower on the card, maybe the IC title scene. Even if he wasn't the guy to build the company around at the time, the gimmick was still one of the most memorable of the New Generation era and got heat, and even the locker room wasn't sure whether his craziness was a work or not, so why not get what you can out of it?

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Trooth Bombz "and a Happy New Year" from /asp/ !ntxFr6SCLM Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:30:25 No.12840833 Report

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Graham on the other hand makes doing a fat lot of nothing to that belt somehow look impressive.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Jan 2024 18:01:26 No.12841084 Report

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Why the hell did the title change happen at a house show anyway?

Sure, it was a short squash match WWE recorded and broadcast in full on TV, but why didn't it just happen on Raw in the first place?

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