Memorable Jobber Matches.
 

We always talk about the classics. The Flair-Steamboats, the Hart-Austins, the Malenko-Guerrero Classics. These... aren't those kind of matches.

I am talking about one sided matches that showcase one particular guy. And they are memorable for one reason or another.

One Example I haven't ever found video of, but I remember was the Headshrinkers vs. these two jobbers. They had a thing where they would "knock one" of the jobbers out before finishing off the other. This one particular night, on Raw, they "knocked out" one of the jobbers, and dragged him to his corner. The other guy comes in, and gets "knocked out" as well. Fatu and Samu look around, seeing the bodies on the floor, then start fighting each other! Eventually, Afa gets them to end the match.

Another example is one I'm sure I posted before, but fuck it. It's too good not to relive.

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And one more to hammer the point home...

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Post some of your favorites.

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STAN STANSKY

Any jobber with a body worse than mine is memorable.

Watch it through to the end. That's all I'm gonna say.

Also, ring announcer Joe McHugh rules

WWF had a lot of untrained jobbers in the mid 80's. I'll see if I can hunt down the ones I remember.

Ken Patera vs Judo Joe Black for example

Also, any Steiner Brothers match against any jobbers. They pretty much just murdered them all.

There was that time TPWW's own Rollermacka appeared in a jobber tag team match on RAW.... I forget against who..... The Ascension maybe?

Rollermacka was never actually tagged into the match, though, so technically remains unpinned.

I made it to 3:49. Holy fuck.

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I posted this in my Walk Through History thread because it's a point in time where Wrestling was still real, even to some of the wrestlers. As you saw in the the Shultz Darkside, a lot of the undercard workers back in the day weren't quite told that the business was a work. So you'd have these marks who want so badly to be a wrestler they'd basically do it for free for the chance to get into the ring with a real pro. Enter Lars Anderson. I learned from Tony Schiavonie that this guy was one big bully when it came to "enchancement matches" and this video is proof. I am going to assume the story here is that we have a young trainee getting his chance to work with a real pro, and the rookie likely hasn't been told that wrestling is a work and legit gets his ass kicked until he gets it. Enjoy

I will have to post Koko Ware vs the Patriot. Where Patriot tried to show up Ware and got his soul knocked loose.

Koko murdered that fucking dude.

Damn. Really well executed here. I think it's obvious by the end that the victim is probably double jointed and able to dislocate his shoulder without any pain. That was fucking brutal to watch though.

There's this match between David Sammartino and jobber Ron Shaw. David was upset with how he was being used so he decided to let Ron Shaw beat him down the entire match and then submit during a bear hug, much to the confusion of the ref and Gorilla Monsoon

There's this match between Bill Dundee and Buddy Landel vs jobbers Jim Jamieson and David Haskins from Memphis 1986. They were trying to get over how vicious Bill and Budro were so Jim Jamieson told them to just beat him to a pulp .

That's my favourite ever match

This version has better audio.

Yeah I was looking for a better version without the static

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The promised Koko vs. Patriot.

There's always this gem that I posted last month, and where my avatar is from

Here's another one I remembered.

And another one. They just about let anyone in the ring lol

Does APA vs. Public Enemy where APA beat the utter crap out of PE count?

Don't think it was originally meant to be a squash or jobber match but PE pissing off the wrong people quickly turned it into that infamous match.

I remember hearing something where they thanked the APA backstage after the match

There's this match where Sid and Spivey beat the shit out of this jobber who thought he was too good to be jobbing. He later became one of the Dogs Of War in Global

Yeup they did according to Bruce Prichard.

Public Enemy were so fucking shit

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I couldn't find the match without Last or Corny's commentary. But it was quite noteworthy.

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My second favorite Finlay Squash. Against a dude who botched a fucking leapfrog and took a second to remember he was supposed to bump off the short clothesline, not like he needed to. You know he beat the piss out of the guy, but made it look so good you wouldn't think anything was amiss.

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And my favorite. My best guess is that Prince got a little too close to Paula with that sword, and she told Fit to brutalize him.

I believe Lorenzo was Roddy Piper's bodyguard.

Came here to cite this. Pretty sure you told us the jobbers were willing to bleed hard way to sell it. What a fucking beating.

There was an era in mid 98 where Bradshaw was doing a Stan Hansen knock off gimmick. Post Blackjack and Pre Acolyte. He was having these matches on Shotgun where he was fucking murdering jobbers every week. Check this match out.

I love how most of these squashes incorporate at least one brutal fucking lariat.

Chuck Austin ruined it for everyone.
Allegedly Jay Strongbow allowed the jobbers to come in sight unseen so that had to stop in case there was another $20,000,000 lawsuit.

And then 16 year old Jeff Hardy came along lol

lol, yet the Hardy Boys were jobbing when they were like 15 and self-trained.

fuck you beat me to it.

My all time favourite jobber

Yeah but the Hardy's were an exception to what had become the rule whereas before then they were the rule.
That's why it's so easy to find awful jobbers in old WWE and not so much in later years.

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Oh, and speaking of the Mulkeys. And Corny making references to Stan Lane's many talents.

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More Mulkeys vs. Midnight goodness. This one with Dennis Condrey and the two most horrific bumps you will ever see.

1999 Rick Steiner jobber matches are the best. Here he beats the living shit out of Chase Tatum

Lol remember when Rick Steiner decided to shoot on Konnan right at the end of WCW? apparently Konann had injured some of Rick's friends, so rick decided to get some payback. The main incident was Lex telling Konnan that his neck was fucked, so go easy on it. Konnan proceeded to do the opposite.

Man I think Im finally gonna go back and start watching old Nitros. I miss WCW :(

Those 3 hour Nitro's can be a chore to get through

Jesus Steiner clubbing Konan right on the back of the head lmao

First thing that came to mind was that match where Koko beat the shit out of that guy. That parting shot at the end was glorious.

I remember another match where Antonio Inoki beat the shit out of a big fat guy for not selling too. Good stuff.

The Great Antonio!

While not a match per see, always found it a bit creepy as a kid back in the day whenever Undertaker had squash matches and would stuff the jobber in a body bag afterwards to never be seen again.

When I think of late 80s to mid-90s WWF jobber matches, that usually comes up first in my head for memorable moments.

I’ve long been a proponent of the post match jobber spots. Sid’s stretcher, The Mountie’s taser, JBL’s branding iron, many more I’m forgetting. The body bag was probably the best. I was very concerned young kid watching Superstars on Saturday mornings.

The obese "strongman".

He looked like Hagrid.

There's a Varisty Club (Steiner and Rotunda) vs Chono and Super J match from 2000 WCW where Steiner just decides to shoot on everyone. I've been trying to find it on youtube for a while.

Probably should have looked on Dailymotion

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Daily motion has fuckloads of full PPV's in great quality too.
Underrated wrestling content.

Sweet, figured out the embed issue

Lol watch that tag match!

Man that match was horrible. Rick Steiner did not look the least bit interested.

I liked when he came in and just booted Chono in the leg while it was tied up then socked him right in the eye.

But God Damn was that an ugly, broken match.
I guess after getting hit a few times you don't really care how it looks anymore.

Greatest spear ever

Adrian Byrd's only win. My fucking god was he ever bad. Buddy Lee Parker was a terrible trainer. Horrible match, but every Byrd match is like this. Roided up Bettlejuice.

That time the future Joey Abs pinned Stone Cold on Superstars

I always forget about that match

People forget just how prominent Bulldog was around this time. It's interesting that one of the most awesome parts of his career - being in the Hart Foundation in 1997 - led to him being kind of irrelevant.

I'd have loved the Austin/Bulldog feud to have a bit more legs, but the logistics didn't make sense. Tweener/babyface Bulldog was awesome in late 96/early 97.

I have zero recollection of that feud. I gotta go back and watch those 96 Raws. The WWF was getting really good around Wrestlemania 96

97******** This is from the month before Royal Rumble 97. 1996 was a good year for show quality, though. They just lacked the buzz of the nWo.

Post more of these please.

Specifically devastating beatings.

In 1988 the AWA had this big goof named Rocky Mountain Thunder. Completely untrained. Wasn't around long and was never seen again...….until 1996 where he popped up in a dark match against Jim Duggan at a WCW Saturday Night Tapings.

He's lucky he didn't kill the jobber here.

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A personal fave. Hansen beats Nailz like he owed him rent.

These will go well with my dinner

John Cena vs Nexus.

Don't disrespect the jobber match thread with unfunny sarcasm.

Let's get this back on track.

Fucking brutal Headshrinkers squash match. You gotta watch till the end

This is legitimately one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Just a series of terrifying near botches followed by a mindblowing actual botch which fucks the jobber guy up so much he says "nah you aint doing that to me again you fucking maniac, give me a hip toss" and that's it...

That looked like a bedroom match between brothers, one who moved out quite some time ago and had to move back in due to "poor lifestyle choices".

I'm not going to bullshit you Dale, that starts very strong and then gets quite boring because of how one sided it is.

But that lariat came from a fucking evil place man.
That's easily the best Hansen lariat I have ever seen.
Outkast wrote "So Fresh and So Clean" after that lariat.
Snap wrote "I've Got The Power" after that lariat.
Kevin Wacholz lost the ability to write after that lariat.

What sarcasm? Hell, I was going to mention one of my favorite jobber eras: Chris Jericho as Undisputed Champion. You didn't just get a jobber being killed in matches, the jobber had two fancy belts to go along with it. It was nothing but win!

Don't make me come back there.

Yes! Was looking for this one.

What's the point in muscles if a fat old man can do that to you?

I think I've posted about this guy before. In 1982, Mighty Joe Thunder appeared on Championship Wrestling. Thunder was a guy from the 60's who wrestled as Bob Stanlee, and boy does he wrestle like he's from the 60's. He was supposed to be a World Title Challenger for Backlund, but he lasted 1 T.V taping

Lol I forgot about this one. Bad News Brown vs Steve Reese who looks like such a sack of shit that Vince and Jesse rip on him the entire match. The jobber also yells "help me" at the 1:35 mark.

It trails off after the first couple minutes, but I figured you'd enjoy the end sequence of that stiff elbow drop, followed by the lariat.

You could see Wacholz trying to get a bit of offence in, but Hansen literally just beats his ass.

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How about some more Hansen?

That elbow drop was glorious

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Not even close. :eek: Christian got fucking buried on that spear.




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Always found this one funny due to the botched powerbomb timing, Sid was not impressed.

Lol fucking Steiner PLANTS Robbie Rage with the Steiner Screwdriver.

I know High Voltage aren't technically jobbers, but still

Just remember this match.

Mike Bell tries a hip toss but Saturn lands on his head. Saturn goes fucking crazy.

Saturn was reportedly punished with the Moppy gimmick.

An rvd sell on the steiner head dunk would be amusing to watch.

Mike Bell's brother directed that Bigger, Stronger, Faster film about roids.
Good flick.

No shit. Great movie.