Better Jobber #1
 

This is an idea I came up with a few weeks ago and mentioned to Destor. Let this be the place where the underappreciated who will never get a fair shake in the better wrestler polls can have their day! At the very least, these should be awesome for nostalgia reasons and ridiculous arguments.

I'm defining "jobber" as someone who has less than a 25% winning percentage with at least 25 matches under their belt. I'm using profightdb to verify these stats. If they're slightly off somehow and there's some technicality that should make them ineligible, I don't care (I'm talking to you, STD).

As for what defines "best", that's up to you. You can vote based on who was the blandest, most generic one. You can even vote based on who you think was the better technical wrestler (lol nerd!)

AND WE'RE OFF! Who will job in the inaugural "Better Jobber" poll and who will fail miserably at their job by being a winner?!? You decide!

To me a good jobber is the guy who makes the prime talent look the best and El Dandy could bump his ass off!

Should post some good jobbin' videos for these threads as reference for the younger fans...

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Lol david flair hadnt even been taught how to hit the ropes and he's on national tv. Thank god he was in there with dandy and not the goon or he'd been brutally exposed!

Who are you to doubt The Goon?

It's a toss up, Dandy has a meme to his name & got to bone Jailbait Lita, but every interview I've seen with Bill Irwin made him look like a genuinely nice guy with a sense of humor about himself, & a mind for the "business" side of the sport.

Bill had the boots that looked like ice skates too. Went with him.

Is David Flair the worst wrestler of all time?

He is the worst multi-time champion of all time.

I didn't watch much WCW at that time so I missed David Flair's career. Just saw that match though. Holy shit. I hope he improved a little from that at least.

He was having his match after being in the business like 2 weeks. And i mean 2 weeks from his first bump ever.

Bill Irwin back in the day was really good. At this point of their careers El Dandy was much better.

I was half expecting David Flair to fall out of the ring by the way he was hitting the ropes.

Didn't David Flair die?

Not quite sure who El Dandy is but who am I to doubt him.

i can't wait for Iron Mike Sharpe and Barry Horowitz

I was waiting to cast my vote but when My Final Heaven mentioned the internet meme, that swayed me. Being an internet meme has gotta be a big selling point for deciding who the better wrestling jobber is. On the other hand though, I am a sucker for gimmicks.

Lol jobbers are my speciality. Especially 80's jobbers. Pretty happy about this.

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Can't wait for Len Wagner...... fuck only 7 matches.

I may drop the number of matches requirement. I'm realizing I'm gonna leave a lot of legends of our sport out with it.

Make sure that you are consulted by #1wwffan about candidates for #1 jobber.

Is there going to be a jobber hall of shame?

Brian Costello. Look him up.

Reno Riggins needs to be involved in this.

The most shameful thing a true jobber could do is win 5 straight contests. So, absolutely.

Rick McGraw

I have a short list already. And the 80's will not be forgotten.

The week before McGraw died, they did an angle where Piper ddt'd McGraw over and over again. McGraw was stretchered out. People thought Piper actually killed McGraw.

Rusty Brooks!


http://www.wrestlecrap.com/jotw/rust...stybrooks1.jpg

That's so 80s, fucking love it.

I feel like mentioning jobbers triggers Getner's aspergers.

SD Jones

Jones had a mid card push from the late 70's till like 1984. Wasn't a jobber.

Could you call Tito Santana's El Matador persona a jobber?

(I know he wasn't because he'd beat actual jobbers)

I think vids will be a must for a lot of the forum

Yeah, I'm definitely going to be putting up videos.

I'm going with the man not the gimmick for all of these. At least until I start to run out of guys and have to change the guidelines which won't be for a long time. Even so, he didn't job enough as El Matador to really be considered a jobber.

Yeah, he definitely would have went over the likes of Gill and Horowitz. He was JUST above jobber.

no idea who these shits are but fuck yeah hockey #1

Can't wait for Elsworth to win this

As much as I love the idea of The Goon, I am no one to doubt El Dandy.

Funniest shit to me right now, imagine either of these guy's names at the end of this announcement...

"The winner...and NEW WWE Champion..."

Haha, fuck off, guys.

I've gotta throw my vote behind Lou Ferrigno.

I'm voting for El Dandy but only so he can become part of the mountain of jobbers That Barry Horowitz will be standing on when this is all over.

Brooklyn Brawler, Iron Mike Sharpe and Johnny "Big Sweaty Men" Knockout

Johnny K-9!

Hoping STD does a background check to ensure the jobbers meet the criteria. Can't let Fan make up rules.

Jobber to the Stars-level just like Tito Santana was years before.

The Melky Brothers, Barry Horowitz (to a certain point) Rip Rogers, L.A. Gore, Mass Transit.

I think the TPWW Universe will decide the jobbers from the non-jobbers. El Dandy is questionable though. He walked down to the aisle with music and introduction.

Hmmm, very true. Goon wins by default. Good work STD.

... Get the fuck out of my thread.

We shouldn't discount WWF-Fan. El Dandy wins. Viva lo jobbo

Nice save. You can stay for now.

El Dandy

Spanish for "the dandy", by the way.

Jumpin Joey Maggs from Baltimore please

Tex Slashenger and Shanghai Pierce....they weren't jobbers for long though.

I don't think you guys understand what a jobber is

Enhancement talent

Holy fuck I had no idea how awful David Flair was! I was a 12-year-old mark back then so everything was real to me, but fuck me Flair was fucking terrible. He couldn't even hit the bloody ropes properly. I always thought his character work was good when he played a psycho, but Jesus... I voted El Dandy just for having to work with that.

The best "jobbers" were proper enhancement talent.
I'm actually not really able to remember any pure enhancement guys for the most part, as we're so removed from the era which is why my mentions for the most part have been misfires.

But realistically you aren't supposed to remember them, there's a select few that you do.

The Hardy brothers, Scott Taylor, Justin Credible, Thrasher, Mosh, etc. all started as enhancement in WWE. They didn't have characters. They had terrible unmemorable ring attire, they had no entrances, but they were kept around to do the JOB.

Tracy Smothers wasn't a jobber on the indies but was a jobber in WWE.

I realize this is going nowhere, but my main point is it's hard to label EXACTLY what a jobber is.

There are certain guys that were total jobbers, aka they are puny little dinkholes that enhanced the size, strength and ability of the featured talent. They guys who didn't tan, really didn't hit the gym and were essentially twinks. Those are the REAL jobbers... crash test dummies that make the top stars look like super heroes.

Dwayne Gill is a perfect example of that. His job was to take the moves and lose in 2 minutes. Obviously he had the run as Gillberg, but he was the James Elsworth of his time. Him being part of the company because he made the Razor Ramons and the Undertakers look fan fucking tastic.

A guy like Barry Horowitz made a great career out of it because he was so fucking professional. He got a push beyond jobber. Even as a jobber yeah he'd do his 2 minute squashes but he'd also get to go 5-10 minutes and get some "shit" in.

Alright, I don't know what I'm getting at.... just having an inner monologue about jobbers in my head.

There were two types of jobbers back in the day: guys who did T.V jobs/opening match at major house shows and guys who did straight T.V jobs.

Your first category is more of your "JTTS" like Iron Mike Sharpe/S.D Jones/Johnny Rodz. They did a lot of t.v jobs with a win mixed in here and there, and won about half their house show matches.

Your other category are straight t.v jobbers like Reno Riggins, Dwayne Gill, Steve King, Frank Williams etc. These guys would work the occasional house show, losing to guys like Iron Mike Sharpe, S.D Jones. The difference is, they hardly if ever won.

I know you love Johnny Rodz from reading your reviews.

I was listening to a podcast where Quackenbush and Brice from Chikara were guests and they were talking about how once RAW started with the multiple shows taped/taping, these Dwayne Gill/Reno Riggins types were essential, as they were doing 3-4 jobs per taping and made your guys look like superheroes. I think a really good enhancement guy like this was essential. They really in those days made your main talents look like super heroes, you had that direct contrast of average chump vs Mutant freak. The less you stood out and the more average you were, the better. Particularly if you were short. That gave you a consistent. One would imagine that these guys understood their role, and the more they understood and accepted it, the more money they made. (Obviously it wouldn't be "lucrative" but one assumes the better jobber you are, the more you're brought in to make the stars look great).

And you look at these days when nobody seems like a superhero, you see the value of those matches. It was just hard finding that happy medium, because nobody wants to watch 2 hours of jobber squashes.


Also, there was a pay bump you got when Yokozuna would squash you with a bonzai drop or when Beefcake cut your hair (I think those were the 2)

Don't feel bad. All I ever saw of the guy was him getting his ass beat by 'Taker leading up to Undertaker vs. Ric Flair.