Post by Burst on Mar 14, 2012 19:17:11 GMT -5
I recall reading in passing about a tactic used during the territory era and earlier to establish their workers: dressing up their jobbers as faux Collegiate Greco-Roman champions or foreign champions of some other technical sport, or even as champion boxers, just to show how tough their guys were when they inevitably destroyed the faux "champions".
This is definitely something that could only have worked pre-internet, as in hindsight it's almost hilariously presumptuous in terms of asserting the superiority of the wrestlers vs. other mediums. And as someone who wasn't alive to see it, I'd have a hard time willingly believing that such-and-such was actually a champion and was willingly showing up in, say, Youngstown. (Maybe less of a thing for shows in bigger cities.) High school or collegiate wrestlers, maybe, but still.
Anybody that was actually watching during this period care to elaborate on this at all? It just seems a curious approach to jobber-ing that's definitely an artifact of its time.
This is definitely something that could only have worked pre-internet, as in hindsight it's almost hilariously presumptuous in terms of asserting the superiority of the wrestlers vs. other mediums. And as someone who wasn't alive to see it, I'd have a hard time willingly believing that such-and-such was actually a champion and was willingly showing up in, say, Youngstown. (Maybe less of a thing for shows in bigger cities.) High school or collegiate wrestlers, maybe, but still.
Anybody that was actually watching during this period care to elaborate on this at all? It just seems a curious approach to jobber-ing that's definitely an artifact of its time.
