Bob Backlund is a professional wrestler best known for his technical skill, endurance, and long WWF World Heavyweight Championship reign in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was a disciplined, amateur-style competitor who defended the title against top challengers throughout the early MSG era. Backlund is remembered for his clean-cut, intense persona and for being one of WWF’s most dominant champions before the rise of the Rock ’n’ Wrestling era