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Bob Backlund
The score
Seven factors, none derivable from a record: in-ring, psychology, selling, uplift, peak, catalog, big-match.
Six factors — mic, character, X-factor, crowd, draw, crossover. Only draw is read from the record.
Longevity and standing across the career as the record reports it.
- GOAT score
- 57.95 Historical Index
- Rank
- 322 of 5,578
- Base, eighteen factors
- 60.35
- Elite-craft correction
- +0.00 (below the threshold)
- Era-adjusted business
- +0.00 (drawing power 42.9 at 0.92 era weight)
- Thin-evidence penalty
- −2.40
- In-ring craft
- 60.9
- World-title standing
- 88.0
- Era dominance
- 55.2 (inferred — outside the PWI archive)
Every term is defined on the method page, including what this model cannot know. This career is in the historical index: it peaked before the PWI 500 began printing in 1991, so the archive this model leans on cannot see it at its height. The placing is what the historical record supports, and it is a weaker claim than a number suggests.
Championships
| Championship | Promotion | Reigns |
|---|---|---|
| Undisputed WWE Championship | WWE | 2 |
| World Tag Team Championship ('71-'10) | WWE | 1 |
The ledger in hand covers WWE, AEW and TNA. Reigns in the NWA, WCW, the AWA, New Japan, All Japan, NOAH and elsewhere are not listed here — but they are counted in the world-title standing above, from an editorial table. That asymmetry is the data's, and pretending otherwise would be worse than admitting it.
PWI 500 record
Ranked in 6 annual lists, 1991 to 1996. Best placing: number 46.
Around Bob Backlund in the ranking
Immediately above: Shane Taylor #318, Jun Akiyama #319, Angelico #320. Immediately below: William Regal #327, Curt Hennig #328, Satoshi Kojima #329.
Held the same championships
Public record, not a comparison: these are other ranked wrestlers whose reigns appear in the same ledger. The ledger in hand covers WWE, AEW and TNA only.
- Undisputed WWE Championship (WWE) — Shawn Michaels #1, Ric Flair #2, John Cena #4, Hulk Hogan #6, Bruno Sammartino #7, The Undertaker #8
- World Tag Team Championship ('71-'10) (WWE) — The Rock #11, Triple H #14, CM Punk #21, Randy Orton #25, Chris Jericho #26, Rob Van Dam #29
The full ranking · More wrestlers under B · How the score is built
This page states public record and an independent fan ranking of Bob Backlund. It is a free, unofficial fan reference — an unofficial fan tribute, made for fun. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to World Wrestling Entertainment, All Elite Wrestling, TNA Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, or any official rights holder of the promotions, championships and performers named.