16 Purest Babyfaces In Wrestling History

16. Bob Backlund

Although he's better remembered today as a screaming nut job, Bob Backlund actually spent the most successful years of his career as a clean-cut, aw-shucks grappler; They even called him "Opie". Long before he was trying to make Darren Young great again, he was bringing Madison Square Garden to its collective feet with his 'patient feeling-out process'.

Bob Backlund was a gee-whiz "All-American Boy" best known for being the 'Face That Ran the Place' between Bruno Sammartino and Hulk Hogan came along. Despite being the absolute embodiment of whitebread inoffensiveness, Bob held WWE's top championship for five years. Bobby B's whole gimmick was that he was a nice young man who was just good enough at high school wrestling that he could use it to subdue the cauliflower-eared goblins of pre-VKM WWE.