Fred Rosser Persuaded Vince McMahon To Have Bob Backlund Be His “Life Coach” In WWE

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In 2016, Bob Backlund agreed to be Fred Rosser’s (Darren Young) on-screen “life coach” in WWE and to “Make Darren Young Great Again.” This came shortly after Rosser reunited with Titus O’Neil to form the Prime Time Players.

During a recent appearance on the “Under the Ring” podcast, Rosser discussed how he got Bob Backlund to be his “life coach” during the last year of his WWE tenure.

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You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On working with Backlund: “You know, tag teams don’t last forever and I new sooner or later Titus and I would be broken up. So you’ve gotta’ have ideas. And I had done several autograph signings with Bob Backlund for Special Olympics and the Be A Star anti-bullying campaign. And every time he does autograph signings, he does them standing up, and so do I. So there was a point in my career when I was doing the signing with him, I’m looking over at Bob. And I said to myself, ‘Man, he’s energetic, I’m energetic. I’d love to–‘ And at the time WWE wasn’t heavy into managers, but I said to myself, ‘I’d love to have him as like my — not my manager, but something like my life coach.’”

On coming up with the plan: “And it was really my idea, and I’ve said it in many interviews because a lot of guys think that it was just given to me. It was actually my idea. And I wrote it out, I had visuals, I actually kind of mirrored the idea from Mike Tyson and his former trainer Cus D’Amato. Because they’re like strange bedfellows, but Mike was very, very locked in to his trainer Cus D’Amato. so that’s what I did. I took the ideas, I proposed them to Vince McMahon… I proposed the idea to him. He loved it, he called up Bob Backlund personally.”

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Bob Backlund Robert Louis Backlund Birthdate: 08/14/1949Height: 6’1″Weight: 241 Ib

Best known for his tenures in the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation (WWWF/WWF, later known as World Wrestling Entertainment and currently simply …

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