After all but disappearing from the scene for several years, many US fans were shocked when photos & (eventually) footage of Bob Backlund’s pair of brutal late ‘88/89 bouts vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Masaharu Funaki from the Japanese shootfighting fed UWF began to surface stateside! pic.twitter.com/NOOvcmVRiz

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