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  • the man had wrestling skills that are neither appreciated or existant in today's incarnation of pro wrestling.

  • Delivering oil? Scary what happens after all that fame & money goes away...

  • i wonder if he was serious when he said he didnt remember that match?

  • fuel oil ????? HMMMMM!!!! Flair eats this clown alive in all aspects of the business.

  • He looks like an insane living doll.

  • @Sener Howdy Doody! LOL

  • Even the genius,Vince McMahan,couldn't do anything with this boob,the worse era ever for the then WWF.

  • @TheJukeboxjim - Well back in '94-95, that storyline of him "losing his mind" and putting everyone in the chicken wing was pretty damn funny. "The genius, Vince McMahon"...yeah...

  • @SidJustice1 A genius indeed.

  • @TheJukeboxjim The only things going against Backlund were his lack of mic skills and plain look. That's it. Other than that the man could wrestle his fucking ass off whether it was like collegiate/mat wrestling or being able to work like hell in a pro wrestling ring and do his moves just right each and every time, sell for the opponent, or go for a whole hour. Lots of guys have the "look" but can't work 1/4 as good as many of the old school guys. It's all about talking and looks.

  • @docdoom187 doc, you can't be serious,mic skills and his look are 2/3 of the gig,he was a decent wrestler,but the face of your association?I think not!This isn't a Meatloaf song,here 2 out of 3 is bad!

  • MR. IRON SHEIK BROKED HIS BACK MADE HIM HUMBLE THEN F*** HIS ASS THE OLD COUNTRY WAY !

  • @amirsoffice - You mean Vince fucked him in his ass. I always wanted to see Backlund kick Vince's ass @ WM...or anywhere else.

  • Backlund was, and will always be a dickhead. Worst promo's on camera EVER!

  • @yimpka - fuck outta here. This guy is GOLD.

  • @yimpka being a dickhead was the whole point of his gimmick! lol

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  • Okay, for all of you ignorant kids that think Backlund is either insane, taking drugs, or hit the coffee too hard before this video, there's this thing called "Kayfabe".

    Basically, a wrestler would stay "in character" even when outside of the ring to protect his character and the secrecy of the business.

    Ex: The Original Sheik would hang up on people who called his house asking for Edward (his real name).

    May sound weird, but it's not. Just a little old-school. And it still gets over, no?

  • @DoubleTalkingJive MOST PEOPLE SAY BOB IS SCHIZO CHRIS JEHRICO EVEN SAID THIS INHIS BOOK!

  • Bob Blacklund always tickled me in ways.

  • Is he weird?

  • Holy shit Bob backlund is in Hartford I'm calling him

  • Mr. Backlund, a true champ! The Cross Faced Chicken Wing!

  • Does he not look like an older Miz? I think he's the Miz father

  • He is not crazy. He is in his Mr. Backlund character. Bob is old school with the staying in character thing which is why few people have ever got him to shoot. If you want to see the only vid of him breaking character that I have ever found - search bob backlund and terry funk on youtube. They do a cool sit down and talk straight. Bob too.

  • @aitraining

    He never HAD a character until the Bret Hart match, he didn't want to expose his family to the weirdness of wrestling. Once his kid grew up then he started playing the game.

  • This weird little man was once the peoples champion lol

  • speaking form a old school fan!!! i like the 80's bob baclund not the 90's bow tie wearing lunitick!!

  • Wow... imagine if Backlund had delivered this kind of energy back when he held the title in the late 70's to early 80's?

  • he's great

  • The Sad Thing Is,I Dont Think Hes Acting.

  • @MrHead1972 : Agreed. I think Bob Backlund at some point in the 1990's literally lost his mind FOR REAL.

  • ahaahahahh

  • aaaaaahahahahahhahh

  • Jeez, he IS out of his mind.

  • Hey look, its the miz sr

  • Jeebus, how many times has Flair retired?

    Mr. Backlund needed to cut down on the caffeine, but the guy really was the best in the business, and that's the way I'll remember him.

  • is backlund on dope..

  • Mr. Bob Backlund has brain damage! LMAO!

  • I think he took one too many piledrivers by the looks of this.

  • he is a nut job

  • He's crazy.lol

  • young man!!!!!

  • I don't remember it! LOL

  • Bob will always be the Champ

  • To those of you unable to see him circa 1980-81 he was damn near as good as Kurt Angle in the ring. Just not a lot of charisma. This is one of the last of the 'hookers'...

  • is Backlund in the hall of fame yet?

  • @HollywoodKendrick He will never be in the hall of fame! He just doesn't want to be.

  • LOL, Backlund is awesome - he probably made Apter list all the presidents in the United States before he allowed this interview, LOL.

  • i hate this fucking guy... he is a stooge... he once came to me in albany, and asked me if i wanted his autograph.. i was like umm sure he said 17$... i said im glad scoland tossed in the towel on you ..your a fucking weirdo he laughed said get out of my face i said ya ok... tuff guy and left noone was wanted his autograph cause he fucking sucks sucked then sucks now.. dont buy his oil its waterd down bhahhahahaaha

  • Is this the father of The Miz?

  • What an idiot !

  • STILL THE WWF CHAMP

  • Actually when Backlund returned to the WWF in 1992, he was still the clean cut babyface he was in the late 70s. It wasn't until 1994 he 'snapped' and turned heel and became a nut, so he didn't have that nut job gimmick right away and it came later after losing a World title match to Bret on Superstars

  • @The80srox Backlund's heel turn was great until the WWF (perhaps Vince Russo) ruined it with that "presidential candidate" gimmick,  maybe he would had been perfect as Shane Douglas manager when he became Dean Douglas in the WWF, not only were their characters almost equal in every sense, but both would had benefited greatly from the union, Douglas would have rescured Bob from the "president" angle, and Backlund in turn would had protected Douglas from the harmful ways of the Clique

  • the iron shiek broke his back and fucked his ass, and made him humble..

  • @meanlezbo

    ONLY BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO LAY DOWN FOR THE NO TALENT HOGAN AFTER HOLDING THE STRAP FOR 5 YEARS

  • i think he might have had a serious brain injury...

  • Holy shit! What happened to this guy man.

    

  • LOL Backlund's really behaves like a freak during this heinous interview yet he was such a marvelous wrestler back in his much earlier years quite frankly I did used to love seeing Backlund portray the All American Babyface character he did always show much pride and integrity and I deeply worshipped Backlund, then when he became that stupid freaky uncontrollable always yelling constantly heel I just didnt want to know him anymore basically Mr freaky guts practically ruined his very own image.

  • look at these marks, this was a kayfabe interview, of his arrogant, often snapping, school prinicipal type , bitter towards the new generation....gimmick of the early 90s

  • is he mildly retarded?

  • @tb049

    nope , that was his gimmick when he returned to the federation in early 90s,

  • @sayanroy36 I know. But he seems to play it everywhere he goes.

  • @tb049

    well he's from a generation when 99.9% fans believed what they saw were "real" & a wrestler would be immediately fired if you didn't maintain kayfabe, so i dont blame him..old habits die hard, its pretty entertaining!

  • Apparently this was a "Kayfabe" interview. Backlund is one of the legitimate nice guys in pro wrestling. He still lives outside of Hartford CT. Great in-ring wrestler, but unfortunately was totally ignored by the business after Hulk Hogan won the belt. Bob is often ridiculed for his promos because you either got the "Gosh, Golly Gee" Backlund or the raving lunatic Backlund - no middle ground.

  • Backlund is so cool! He lives in my town, I saw him at the grocery store yesterday! lol

  • I wish Mr. Backlund would`ve gave that camera man the chickenwing.

  • @jokebooks agreed

    

  • He seems a little retarded.

  • Backlund always looked like he could run through a wall.

  • Sick

  • hahahahaha fuckin hilarious

  • What a cartoon character Bob Backland has become! A Total Moron!

  • mr backlund is a joke. the real bob backlund is somewhere in his mind waiting to return . he should do that. cstanchik

  • if he had acted like that in his heyday, backlund would have had a longer run.

  • @teflonmagnet you idiot he held the belt for 7 years....

  • he was trying to stay in character or he is crazy

  • @jamexxxxxx He's staying character. Initially he was himself and then he snapped into the Mr. Backlund character. However, he looked like he was going to start laughing throughout. There are shoot interviews available with Bob where he's quite lucid.

  • I am going to call that number

  • he has the vince m. look.

  • there's something a little odd with Bob.

  • mr.bob backlund lol

  • Don't Mr. backlund still looks like he is ready to put the camera guy in the Crossface Chickenwing.

  • GOOD!

  • That interviewer was boring, didn't play along with Backlund at all. He wasn't screaming cause he's nuts, that was his character!

  • Is he the dad of the singer for Alien Ant Farm ?? Look up the smooth criminal video and tell me....lolz

  • This guy took one too many chair shots to the head. He doesnt seem like hes wrapped too tight.

  • hey classicgamer, you are right on brother...these idiots who follow wrestling now dont realize what an awesome. wrestler backlund was..he was super strong, a 500 lb bencher, and onre of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time...want to see superhuman strength...check out his match with cowboy bob orton...look it up on youtube... he has a 250 lb guy on his chest and does a bridge with orton on top of him!!!! i challenge anyone to try that manuever....

  • hahahahaha, what a fake fucking number.....call BACKLUND ENERGY at 66663333333111111!!!!!!

  • I cant believe im related to him.

  • To talk to him is to know what hes all about, he is a true gentleman, and I think that his mind is just fine. I spoke with him for about 45 minutes last night and my take on it is the guy actually cares about things like respect, social responsibility, personal responsibility, and doing the right thing even if no one is looking. I talked to him for 30 seconds on Friday, and he returned Saturday knowing my name and with a color glossy he said he would bring me. After all this time, still a hero.

  • what a dickhead!!!

  • "You mean the Omni?" "Yes." "In Georgia?" "Yes, sir." "I don't remember it." LMAO.

  • Backland started out of character and then quickly jumped into it. Great stuff and he was a hell of an amature wrestler. Poor mic skills though.

  • Backlund has dementia (aka Chris Benoit's Disease).

  • Bob Backlund was the best pro wrestler and a TRUE wrestler. Most "wrestlers" are street brawlers or acrobats, all very athletic to say the least, but Backlund could beat anyone fair and square, regardless of size and/or strength. I loved to watch him wrestle growing up in the late '70's and early '80's.

  • Is he in character? lol

  • I hope so.  lol

  • thats what losing to kevin nash in 9 seconds does to u. i wonder if that promo was authorised by bob backland?

  • Backlund looks like Dewey from Malcolm In The Middle in this video.

  • @madmetal LMAO HE DOES! dewey at like 55

  • @madmetal He totally does. AahahAHAHa

  • Backlund has dementia!

  • C'mon now folks, Bob is totally mocking (and maybe justifiably so) the entire wrestling industry.

    This man isnt stupid.

  • ric was dedicated

  • OMG. He's playing that role!

  • Backlund has an IQ of 48...and is what some people consider mentally RETARDED

  • Backlund is a college graduate who was the 1971 NCAA division 2 wrestling champion and he played pro football as well. He was, an still is a class act, who never turned to the steroids and drugs that many of the wrestlers turned to during his time and now. That is why that at the age of 60 (8/14/09), he is still active with independent wrestling promotions and runs his own home heating oil business. Get your facts straight ! You, like Mr. Hogan, are a quagmire in a sea of hypocrisy!

  • Yeah well, even the smartest of them can go senile...

  • and he wanted a senate seat

    rofl

  • ya know Bob Backlund & Ric Flair met in 1982 in Atlanta, GA....NWA World Title vs WWF World Title in which the match ended in a double count-out, which is what they are asking Backlund about here.

    However Ric Flair & Bob Backlund faced before 1982 they faced each other one on one in 1979 in Toronto, Ontario..the NWA U.S. Champ vs. WWF World Champ..Backlund won this encounter via count-out..WOOOOOO

  • That's awesome history!

  • backlunds a dick

  • CAN'T YOU HERE ME!

  • "You mean in Atlanta Georgia? The Omni? I don't remember it!" LMAO!

  • "home heating oil young man, can't you hear me!!"

  • he technically didn't hold the title for 6 years..

    In 1979 he lost the title to Antonio Inoki in Japan, Inoki dropped the belt and Backlund won it back in a match against....Bill Dundee?

    However, the WWE doesn't recognize the title change.

    Bob Backlund's technical title reign from when he won it back to when he lost it to Iron Sheik is just over 4 years...it's actually shorter than Hogan's first title reign

  • hmmmm didn't know that!!!

  • I don't know man. I think he pushes the evelope on his '90's gimmick too much. Sometimes I often wonder if he's sane.

  • its funny he says he doesnt remember the match but he knows where they wrestled lol.

  • mr. backlund should have been in the hall of fame long before hogan. bob...I mean mr.backlund held the wwf/e title for 6 years straight. hogans a punk he beat knowone.

  • u must be a bit of an idiot if u truely believe hogan beat absolutely no one

  • Well he didn't you idiot talking from a wrestling point of view, backlunds time was up. hogan was just coming in from the awa. so who better desevre a title than the sheik, then he dropped it to hogan. he didn't beat bob a top guy to pass the torch. he was pretty much handed the belt. so go ride your horse in leathers you brokeback goof. you know nothing!!!!!!

  • internet geeks talk tough behind a computer screen. i'd break ur back u little cunt.

  • well little boy judging by your profile, you talk tough, but thats it. So please stop wasting my time ok. your just a inmature little brat. TROLL. end of rant!

  • and you're just a cunt. you're just fodder for my boredom. please dont stop ranting, you are my entertainment. i know u do as i say and reply cos u are my new youtube bitch. NOW REPLY BIIIIIIIITCH!!!!

  • oooh the irony...

  • u wanna be my new youtube bitch? get the ky jelly cos we're in for some intense serious ass fucking!

  • LOL

  • Bob Backlund was a REAL champion and the Iron sheik was a fake champion. He without a doubt is one of the top ten best wrestlers ever to step in the ring.

  • Why he isn't in the Hall of Fame yet I'll never know.

  • Great point! Backlund wrestled EVERYONE both in the WWF and NWA. His in ring skills were unmatched, he could sell when needed to, and for his time, had great mic skills. He should be in the Hall of Fame, and his matches should be watched by all up and comers

  • Huh? Backlund NEVER had mic skills! He was clueless and awkward in promos.

  • Sometimes, he looked awkward on the mic. I think he was honest and maybe too excited at times. But you also have to remember, he was one of those guys who really didnt have to talk much, even as the champion

  • He's turned down numerous offers to be inducted, mainly because, as this video demonstrates, he's still big on the kayfabe thing.

  • Backlund had the second longest title reign in WWE history. And he was a National Collegiate Champion at North Dakota. Is that okay?

  • he seems like a cool guy

  • If he would have had this act while he was champ, McMahon would have kept him champ a little longer. Friggin hillarious!!!!!

  • Bob Backlund's either he's crazy or he's the best worker on the planet.

  • is this guy in character 24/7 or is this just who he is?

  • i think he's in character 24/7 because if you hear him in the beginning he starts out normal and then remembers

  • Would you buy home heating oil from this man???

  • Hell no!

  • backlund looks like a shaved monkey.

  • DAMN how times have changed

  • Backlund doesn't really get the credit he deserves from WWE anymore. Sure he wasn't as cool as Superstar Billy Graham (then again nobody was) but the guy was a hell of a wrestler. I only really found this out when I came across some of his matches with Jesse Ventura, Pat Patterson and Stan Hansen. Up till then to me he was just that wierd guy who choked Bret Hart out for the title at a survivor series when I was a little kid.

  • Don't really like the looney act but the ending was hilarious.

  • The looney act was hilarious back in the day lol, especially when he put the chicken wing on that writer dude that one time.

  • Mr. Bob Backlin IS NOT Champuen!

    Iron Sheik IS Champuen!!!!

  • esszactly. eh eh bob backlin is jabroni and not da real champuen like da iron shiek

  • You are very intellegent businessman! How many times Bob Backlin sold out Madison Souare Garden??? Bob Backlin, Hulk Hogan and The Fabulous Moolah are all %¤#¤&%¤%&&!!!! They are not Champuen!! IRON SHEIK IS CHAMPWIN!!!!!

  • esszactly. exzellent exzellent point. god bless you, Mr McMahon, and baby jesus.

  • Mr.Bob Backlund: I'm Not A Psycho!! Ahhhh!!! LOL

  • Backlund held the WWF title longer than anybody.

  • your wrong Bruno did

  • And you are absolutely right(round of applause in the backround) Bruno held it for 8 years Backlund for 5. Had a senior moment. Everyone has them at some point.

  • no problem.. you

  • Backlund is cool. Talent. Very funny. HE STILL NEVER PUT Vince Mcmahon in the crossface chickenwing. I hope he does one day.

  • hahaha that would be great, immagine Mr. Backlund slapping on the chickenwing on Vince at his HOF inducting, maybe that's why WWE doesn't want him in the HOF

  • thanks, merry christmas

  • samewise :)

  • @kevmoney2make All TNA has to do is kidnap the real Vince Mc Mahon, send him to the Impact Zone, and in front of TNA television get Mr. Backlund to crossface chinkenwing him. That would put ratings up the roof for TNA.

  • He looks like Vince Mcmahon. LOL!!!

  • holy shit! He does look like Vince

  • Backlund is a loone tune. Awesome.

  • CLASSIC!!!!If he were this funny as champion I would have liked him!

  • lol, is he working or is hereally that crazy, can a business man be so dopy? lol.