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Originally Posted by NeanderCarl
Guys like the Highlanders, Funaki, Scotty, Venis et al are just the new wave of jobbers. Rather than faceless guys, they have personalities, TitanTrons, entrance music etc. Mainly because a TV show full of squash matches doesn't work in the current climate, but you still need your jobbers to make guys like good. Hence the expression "glorified jobbers". That's all they are, modern day squash boys.
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Not really new. I mean, Val Venis has spent a good chunk of his career as a jobber in the same pervie\w. Stevie Richards, as well. and he had personalities up the Wazoo. They had Mosh and Thrasher, who were perennial jobbers, if not truly full-time.
I'm not disagreeing, just clarifying.
But at some point, their usefulness runs out. I mean, sure, he squashes Funaki, but who hasn't? I'd be disappointed if Zack Gowen didn't beat him in under 2 minutes--With his good leg cuffed to the ropes.
Venis doesn't usually end up in total squash matdches. His usefulness comes from the back that he receives pops (albeit not Austin-esque) and puts on a believable match in which he loses. He's kind of a midcard version of Mick Foley. Those guys, who are jobbers for life, aren't really quite the same as the fuckers who get squashed. Well, Funaki is. Stevie is, conistently. Even the Highlanders, though, are believable. Part of it is just that they shelled out money for produced videos and such. The rest os mostly that they don't usually just kinda lie down or get crushed. once in a while, they might get utterly destroyed, but with folks like Funaki, that seems like...His only function.