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At the 1994 Survivor Series, Backlund won his second WWF Championship, defeating Bret Hart. He held the championship for three days, before losing it to Diesel at a house show in Madison Square Garden .
Jul 16, 2012 · The kid from Princeton, Minn., quickly became a fan favorite and the seventh WWE Champion in the company's history at Madison Square Garden in 1978. But when Backlund left WWE for good in the...
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Oct 28, 2022 · Bob Backlund Defended The Title Successfully 876 Times. Three days after winning the championship, Backlund had a huge title-for-title match with NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race in a best two-out-of-three falls match in Championship Wrestling in Florida.
Backlund was a television staple after arriving in WWE thanks to his boyish demeanor and superior talent, and on Feb. 20, 1978, he achieved what few before him had ever done and won the WWE Championship by defeating the flamboyant “Superstar” Billy Graham.
On February 20, 1978 at the famous Madison Square Garden, Backlund finally got the elusive pinfall victory over Billy Graham that earned Backlund his WWWF Championship. Backlund won the match despite Graham's leg being on the rope during the pinfall.
Mar 27, 2023 · Many fans know the name Bob Backlund, but for fans of a younger generation, it is more likely that the heel character he portrayed in the mid-’90s is remembered over the "All-American Boy" that Vince McMahon Sr. handpicked to become his WWWF/WWF World Champion from February 20th, 1978 to December 26th, 1983.
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Mar 24, 2020 · Bob Backlund was also the first reigning WWF Heavyweight champion to win the WWF tag team titles, when he teamed with former champ Pedro Morales to defeat Lou Albano’s Wild Samoans on August 9, 1980 at Shea Stadium.