Former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race referred to himself as ... WWE Champions like "Superstar" Billy Graham and Bob Backlund. Race finally joined WWE full-time during the company's ...

including the NWA’s Harley Race and Ric Flair and the AWA’s Nick Bockwinkel. By the early '80s, pop culture was changing and so was WWE. Backlund lost the WWE Championship to The Iron Sheik ...