Bob Backlund, the scrappy, clean-cut All-American boy who defeated Superstar Billy Graham to become the WWWF heavyweight champion in 1978, is now 68 years old and a longtime resident of Glastonbury, ...

Robert Lee "Bob" Backlund is an American professional wrestler with an in-ring career that spanned over 30 years. Over that time, he was a two-time WWWF/WWF Champion. Backlund holds the record for the ...

It wasn’t just the giants of the World Wrestling Federation that Bob Backlund wrestled with throughout his career as a professional wrestler. It was the temptations of fame and the lures of ...

A car ride on the Atlanta roadway after a big show at the Omni led to a turning point in Bob Backlund’s professional wrestling career. “I was in a car with three wrestlers, and two of them [top tier ...

BROOKHAVEN – After a career in which he packed arenas in the United States and abroad, former World Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Champion Bob Backlund added Burman’s Health Shop on Edgemont ...