Bob Backlund / Superstar Billy Graham & Grand Wizard / Mil Mascaras MSG promos - aired 3/4/1978

[@davidcoleman9317]

Rest in Peace CHAMP. SUPERSTAR BILLY GRAHAM

[@FatedTag]

Eternal Legend! 🤘🤘

[@giovannidibravato5576]

he should have been the WWF champ for long than 1 year

[@r0ckstar666]

The grand wizard should be in the hall of fame

[@visionquest09]

He was already inducted in 1996. He’s in.

[@knowhowmedia5889]

@@visionquest09 1995

[@MrAitraining]

Graham rattling off the drugs he's going to take before the match. lol

[@85dirtyd]

This is amazing 5 dianabols lol

[@jonnun7713]

What a time to be alive!

[@davidmitchell6873]

This aired on my eleventh birthday.

[@MrAitraining]

@@davidmitchell6873 Same age brother

[@davidmitchell6873]

I loved growing up in the 70s and 80s. The wrestling, sports and music were so great.

[@dariobava]

RIP SUPERSTAR BILLY GRAHAM!!🙏

[@ZackMorris1]

😢 He was so ahead of his time. The best.

[@Umbriel-c8r]

Totally electrifying to see SSBG in TV as a kid then! He was and always will be the true champion of that era! McMahon F’d up!

[@battlestarmarc]

Superstar looked unreal in the 70's.

[@marklefkowitz4385]

Not as unreal as you.

[@battlestarmarc]

@@marklefkowitz4385 u r trash

[@preachinoldschool5726]

Oh my goodness! The Superstar laid out his drug regimen on national TV! "7 Dianabols a day, 5 testosterone shots a week, I'm gonna come back so strong & powerful, I'm gonna break his back..." Hahaha...this dialogue is crazy true. Zingers everywhere! Godspeed Superstar 🙏💪💜

[@kidgrebo1]

I caught that too, but I think it was 100% legal at the time. I heard that they used to sell GHB at GNC stores in the 90's.

[@calebberaud9747]

That was awesome! You couldn’t get away with that today!

[@rugger104]

@@kidgrebo1 It became illegal in 1990, without a Rx

[@rayrodrigo3999]

Backlund blew the house down with his promo

[@kevinhope8279]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 BS. It went Downhill taking the belt off Billy. Bob was a crappy actor. And it was a big mistake.

[@stevejamieson8468]

​@@kevinhope8279 Bob carried himself like a real athlete as he had been a D2 NCAA Champion. He tried to give his promos in a calm and concise manner much like many of the athletes of the day gave their interviews. He wasn't crazy or over the top, that was him being himself.

[@kevinhope8279]

I took a hiatus from wrestling and got back into it in the mid 80s to about 2013. Then if fell off dumb story lines etc

[@ZackMorris1]

Billy got robbed, but he now has the strap in the pearly gates! Rest in peace Billy! We love you!

[@AaronT129]

BACKLUND'S PROMO SUCKED!

[@jma81]

Bob Backlund had the personality of mashed potatoes in this interview.

[@TheMan-je5xq]

Ya know what’s weird about him is I watched him talk just as himself about life, working out, controversial stuff lately, and he was very interesting to listen to but yet on camera he absolutely sucks I wonder why that is lol

[@rjperfetto584]

Terrible mic skills Backlund possessed then.

[@erikabimbo7555]

He makes a better heel.

[@nichhodge8503]

It wasn’t until 1994 when Backlund “lost the plot” did he start to have any character and personality in his performance

[@AaronT129]

😂

[@davidjerrido5096]

Bob Backlund did not do the best promos but he would bleed with the best of them. Billy Graham was awesome!

[@MrAitraining]

@Big Larry that's ridiculous. Bob was one of the best workers and ring technicians ever.

[@mredwardtaylor]

As I stated in a previous video Vince McMahon looked like Christopher Reeve in his younger days in this video Bob Backlund looks like The Miz

[@Endtime-or1bs1br5q]

At this age he looks close to identical with his grandson Declan. Shanes son.

[@ZackMorris1]

Lol you're so right about Backlund looking like the Miz with that potato head looking face of his! Lolol 😂

[@robertosso5210]

man!!! vince senior really made a huge, he should of had superstar turn and become a babyface and keep the belt on him!!!!

[@marklefkowitz4385]

A huge what?

[@robertosso5210]

@@marklefkowitz4385 mistake

[@raghuram8663]

If Vince McMahon senior would have pushed Superstar Billy Graham instead of BackLund. Hogan would have never existed

[@gabrielpalma1598]

That's the greatest interview because I agree with everything he said

[@darksunridah]

Back in these days in the WWF they didn't like heel champions and this was in the late 70s with Happy Days killin on TV Bob Backlund was Vince's Richie Cunningham 😂

[@jscan4442]

He came across more like Ralph Malph.

[@TheRWBExperience]

Backlund literally sounds like Eddie Vedder mumbling in this interview 😅

[@AaronT129]

😂

[@kevindunlap5525]

The funkiness of a Rhodes. You weren't kidding.

[@Andyc18]

7 Dianabols a day 🤣🤣🤣

[@ezrarimbaud7551]

The grand wizard corpsing send for the man

[@peterisnardi1197]

Here's a thought...let's say Vince Sr. actually turned Graham babyface...would they have turned the Grand Wizard babyface also? I don't know if a kinder, gentler Grand Wizard of Wrestling would have been all that effective...

[@eddiekulp1241]

Was Graham talking about taking steroids and drugs ?

[@DixiePokerAce]

Yep

[@xamurai00]

Wasnt expecting that voice from Billy

[@donwilcox728]

George Zahorian's #1 customer. I wonder if Superstar would have gotten the same results only taking half the amount of steroids. Did he over do it and destroy his body when smaller, less destructive doses would have worked just as well?

[@jasonwilliams3967]

Poor business decision putting Bob Backlund over on Superstar Billy Graham...

[@Kayfabe74]

BS

[@jasonwilliams3967]

@@Kayfabe74, the popularity of Superstar's 3 biggest copy cats says otherwise. Nobody even remembers Bob Backlund...

[@Kayfabe74]

@@jasonwilliams3967 the WWF did Tremendous business with Backlund on top, he fit the mold that they wanted and the formula

[@jasonwilliams3967]

@@Kayfabe74, not any where close to what they had with Hulk Hogan. Maybe more than Jesse Ventura, but I doubt it and the WCW definitely made more with Big Pappa Pump and Hollywood Hogan, than they ever would have with Bob Backlund. Face it, he was boring.

[@suiken3149]

In hindsight, it was okay since Buckland was also selling out arenas. People want just plain good guys to win back then as kayfabe was still pretty much hidden during that era. It wasn't until the Hogan era that characters became the main appeal.

[@pl5624]

I'm gonna take all these drugs....and then live the rest of my life in medical hell.

[@CC-hg9un]

Everyone ripped off Superstar's schtick. He should've never been forced to lose the belt to boring Backlund.

[@MrAitraining]

Guys used and evolved other people's personas since wrestling has been around. Grahama used a lot dusty Rhodes and Muhammad ali himself. Gorgeous George is probably the greatest original innovator as far as characters are concerned. There was no one like him then or before when he did that gimmick.

[@CC-hg9un]

@@MrAitraining So what’s your point?

[@underwriter100]

@@CC-hg9un that Superstar’s shtick, tho good, was not completely original either. Superstar has said he took from Buddy Rodgers who took from Gorgeous George.

[@Fencellisk]

@@underwriter100 correct. All starts with Gorgeous George.

[@joemonteleonezollo4967]

The Great ones don't talk, they do. Super Star admitted talking hard core steroids. Mil Mascaras had all the moves.

[@jamesmuller1481]

Graham looks like Super Macho Man from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!

[@nickr4837]

7 DBols a day&test ! let's gooooo 😂

[@govholocaustal4432]

Bob still has better promo skills than roman

[@christopherporter9596]

It’s bad when Vince McMahon has to bring more color to Bob Backland!

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

Bob Backland couldn’t cut a promo

[@brianparker130]

So Kurt Angle wasn’t the first Olympic gold medalist in wrestling

[@RBloodworth187]

Kurt was the first pro wrestler to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling. Patera won his for weightlifting.

[@knowhowmedia5889]

@@RBloodworth187 Patera didn't even place at the Olympics.

[@DixiePokerAce]

​@knowhowmedia5889 Patera won a gold medal in the Pan Am Games. I believe he won a silver in the World Championships but I don't think he got an Olympic medal.

[@anthonyjones7848]

Superstar was acting out because he was forced to drop the belt

[@keyopronin4134]

Damn, Muhammad & Billy new how too hype & antagonize opponents & crowds, we'll never see this kind of flava again!!!! R.I.P. TOO THE GREAT ONES!!!!

[@gerbubba7955]

Bob Backlund was boring brother

[@geechie-don7157]

That was the gimmick 😂.

[@Masterpiece127]

I was one when this aired. Lmao.

[@robertosso5210]

vince sr really made a huge and horrible mistake, he should of had superstar turn and become a babyface and have superstar continue being champion!!

[@KennethGallahan]

A mistake that led to five years of great matches & business profits.

[@robertosso5210]

@@KennethGallahan you mean 5 years of bob backlund being champion?

[@josephmiller9424]

Think if Bob would be the bad guy but act like he is the all American boy buy over the top and he cheats and superstar is the good guy can superstarmania.

[@robertcornelius3514]

Thumbs down for poor film quality.

[@joeyromero1299]

Bob Backlund has no character, boring Zzzzzz

[@michaelrandolph2493]

What a boring underserving champion. Superstar should had remained Champion up till Hogan’s return.

[@iamgreatnow7218]

Bob Backlund was THE WORST!!!

[@darrinbaker00]

Superstar Billy Graham screamed the quiet part at the top of his lungs. “Not only do I take steroids, this is how much I take!”

[@keyopronin4134]

😂😂😂😂Damn, we'll never get promo's like this again.

[@JustinDonne]

Back when steroids were legal, he’s boasting how many dianabol and other steroids he’s going to take 😅

[@wbruzek]

I think it’s fair to say Superstar’s 6 month reign as champ was much more memorable than Backlands 5 year run.

[@rjperfetto584]

Backlund's in reality was a 3 time Champion in a 5 plus year run

[@spottss]

11 months actually

[@andrewmcguire9795]

It is not fair to say

[@michaelrubin9547]

wow billy talking about steroids

[@bigrav1452]

Mexican jumping bean. Dying laughing. This stuff wouldn't fly today. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nathanwanner..44]

Wow vince was a freakin nerd

[@ljj1735]

Heel backlund was vicious

[@joeyromero1299]

Bob Backlund was boring ,no character, at all. Zzzzzzz

[@johnm24358]

BB sure didn't have much personality......

[@leifskjoldal8042]

Was mill mascaras ugly who noes

[@MrXiphoid1]

I would have loved to have seen this card!

[@apocyldoomer]

What does the Grand Wizard really look like?