As American as apple pie, Bob Backlund experienced success as both ... Ric Flair and the AWA’s Nick Bockwinkel. By the early '80s, pop culture was changing and so was WWE. Backlund lost the ...

Looking every bit like he'd just hopped out of a time machine into the soon-to-be-dubbed New Generation, 1970s/'80s relic Bob Backlund had a task on his hands to appeal to a younger WWF demographic.