TTM Success - Bob Backlund

Again, I set out to get some non-baseball cards into my autograph album, and succeeded (and with a 1987 Topps design, no less) when I got this card signed by former WWE Champion, Bob Backlund.

Backlund (b. 1949) wrestled professionally from 1973 until his retirement in 2018.  He won the WWE (then WWF) Championship in 1978 by defeating Superstar Billy Graham at Madison Square Garden.  Backlund would go on to lose his title to the Iron Sheik (who would then lose to one, Hulk Hogan) in 1983.

Backlund would appear on WWE TV for the next few decades.  Backlund was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.

I mailed to Backlund on November 4 and got the card back on January 9, for a 66-day TAT.