These wrestling submissions are devastating because, in real life, you'd be begging to quit as soon as they're applied.

Following the WWF’s vaunted “Golden Era,” which saw the McMahon Family’s regional Northeastern promotion expand into a ...

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.

He challenged for the WWE Championship against Bob Backlund, but he was not successful in winning the title. However, that was not the end of his run in the promotion. After leaving in 1982 ...

Bob Backlund became only the second man to ever hold the WWF (WWE) Championship for 2,000+ days. With an amateur background, Backlund was the ultimate good guy in the early 1980s. His lack of size ...

On the day after Christmas in 1983, the wrestler known as The Iron Sheik won the World Wrestling Federation belt, beating the champion Bob Backlund in a classic “heel” vs “babyface” match ...

Author Brad Balukjian will make two stops in Central New York this weekend to promote his new book, THE SIX PACK: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania. The book tells the backstory of the ...

Joe remembers entering the VIP entrance at the First Union Center and nearly finding himself in an unsanctioned Mania match when Bob Backlund, a hero from Joe’s youth, put him in his dreaded ...

The Japanese-born competitor was an imposing figure in the ring and highlighted his career with memorable rivalries against Legends such as Bob Backlund, Pedro Morales, Andre the Giant ...

“His impact on wrestling in the 1980s was huge. He dethroned (then WWF champion) Bob Backlund and passed the title to Hulk (Hogan) a month later.” KSWA owner Bobby Orkwis said Backlund was one ...