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chrisstlouis	January 20^th, 2013 23:14 GMT

Topics: 195 Replies: 13997 Member Post: #739130 PT: #31/36	He desrved better then coming back, as a top heel that got to have the belt a 2nd time??

mmv3000	January 22^nd, 2013 00:29 GMT

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Quoted from: chrisstlouis, January 20^th, 2013 23:14 GMT

He desrved better then coming back, as a top heel that got to have the belt a 2nd time??

I loved this version of Bob. I would have loved to have seen what he could have done in the spot. That said, however, there's no way the WWF/McMahon, in the shambles the business was, could have thought any run beyond what he had would have been good for business.

TheBestThereNeverWillBe	January 24^th, 2013 07:12 GMT

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Quoted from: 93, January 01^st, 1970 00:02 GMT

Diesel, Bret, Michaels, etc. were not the answer or were even close to carrying this company back to respectability.

they did keep it afloat though, you have to give them that.

if it was their FAULT, then name for me any other territory or federation anywhere in the world, outside japan, that drew bigger cards on a regular basis during this time frame.


I'll be selling merch at the line to urinate on Cornette's grave...

BattleRoyal	January 24^th, 2013 12:12 GMT

Topics: 2519 Replies: 17896 Member Post: #739599 PT: #34/36	It would have been interesting had Bob turned heel in 1984 and challenged Hulk

Yoenm65	October 13^th, 2014 18:49 GMT

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Also Backlund was a pretty bad worker as a heel, so if the match went any length of time, it would've been bad. If I recall, some of the Diesel-Backlund rematches were changed to Diesel-Jeff Jarrett because of this.

As others have mentioned, the babyface winning the title in short fashion is a WWE pattern (Hogan-Sheik, Warrior-HTM, Diesel-Backlund). Ironically, they even tried it with Sheamus-Daniel Bryan which did create a new babyface star...although the wrong one!

Stephen Gennarelli	October 14^th, 2014 00:36 GMT

Topics: 528 Replies: 9548 Member Post: #809786 PT: #36/36	I agree...Backlund was good in the match where he turned on Brett...but after that ..the great Bob Backlund was just a cartoon helping out his former boss Vince McMahon.

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