Bully Ray thinks that anyone who has a gripe about WWE retconning Backlund’s title reign is merely tilting windmills. But despite this Bully finds himself on their side.

“On this one, I kinda get it,” Bully explained. “For years I’ve been going [online] and I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s Bob Backlund’s name, he was my champion when I was growing up.’ I mean I can’t imagine how the staunch Bob Backlund fan feels about it right now about him possibly being ghosted.” 

The former TNA World Champion has made bitter peace with the fact that his childhood champion simply doesn’t have the cache of a Bruno Sammartino or a Hulk Hogan.

“Can’t [retcon] Bruno, that’s absolute sacrilege, he’s number one,” Bully mourned. “You can’t do it to Hogan, they know the name too well. But if we get rid of Backlund, enough people have forgotten about him already, thus we have Roman creeping up on Hogan and Bruno.”

Bully posits that eliminating Backlund is a sign that WWE hasn’t picked a winner for WrestleMania 40, and they want to leave themselves open to Reigns dethroning Hulk Hogan’s 1,474-day reign sometime in September 2024. His co-host Tommy Dreamer thinks it’s less likely that WWE doesn’t have a winner in mind, saying that his experience working in WWE creative leads him to believe they have a projected winner for WrestleMania 40, and also have an idea of what the WrestleMania 41 main event will be.

As it stands, Cody Rhodes taking on Roman Reigns is the rumored plan for the WrestleMania 40 main event.