Bob Backlund Talks Brock Lesnar, Winning The WWF Title, And The Iron Sheik

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross has a new FOX Sports feature on fellow WWE Hall of Famer Bob Backlund and asked him about Brock Lesnar as well as Backlund dropping the WWF Title to The Iron Sheik. Here are the highlights.

 


 

On Brock Lesnar:

“Geez, he’s a great performer, and I would have loved to have gotten in the ring and do a battle with him some way or another,” Backlund said. “He’s an amazing person, and he’s got a look that is a gift from God. The power that he has, the strength that he has and his facial expressions, he’s really a natural for the business. A match with him would have been pretty awesome.”

“I would have loved to have seen who would have been able to pick up who in a short arm scissors during our match. I would have loved to have wrestled Brock to just see how strong that he really is. He’s at the top of the list of the men that I never got to wrestle.”

On dropping the WWF Title to The Iron Sheik and the lack of communication:

“I wish I had been better informed on how things were going to end but Vince Sr. was battling cancer and the communication wasn’t as good for me as when he was there,” he said. “No one came to me and explained what was going to happen in just a few words. I just did not know what was happening whereas before I always knew what was happening with every promoter that I had worked for. But overall I have no regrets.”

Read the full feature at FOXSports.com, please kick here.

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