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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2013 16:12:44 GMT -4
Case and point:
Man, I wish he could have done something like this during the Attitude Era. This Backlund vs. Austin would have been amazing.
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Post by MT on Dec 31, 2013 16:48:57 GMT -4
Backlund as a heel was a complete revelation. I remember him coming back as this relic of a previous era in the sympathetic babyface "George Foreman" role (the old champ coming back for one more shot). I appreciated his skills in the ring, but as a kid that character just didn't do much for me. Then he had the heel turn and everyone learned there was this maniac bottled up underneath the surface the entire time. That promo was amazing. It really did feel like he channeled decades of frustration into that persona.
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Post by lowtrav on Dec 31, 2013 17:43:02 GMT -4
The only two negatives about Backlund's heel turn? 1) He never got to "snap" on Hogan. Gosh that wound have been fantastic 2) Effectively killing his heel character in one night against Nash.
You just won't see those kind of meaningful heel turns in this day and age due to the tightly scripted nature of the Wwe. Backlund, Austin, Rock...they created their characters.
BTW, I was doing some research to do some bootlegs and its a complete travesty why Tito Santana didn't get a heel run. I didn't realize how much he wrestled "heel"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2013 17:55:18 GMT -4
Looking through the archives, there's no heel Backlund bootleg and I'm not sure how that happens since there's bootlegs for pretty much everyone else ever.
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