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Post by saneiac on Apr 10, 2014 21:00:22 GMT -5
Wimpy guys.
I even made a list of them. I would watch Wrestling Challenge and Wrestling Superstars every week, and record all their names in a notebook. Even though there were regulars, there was also actually a crapload of guys who made one appearance and were never seen again.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Apr 10, 2014 21:30:51 GMT -5
A quick review of my ancient homemade VHS tapes' shows I regarded them as bum, skrub, loser, or geek and there was one guy who I always called That Herb. Scrubs tag teams were called ham 'n eggers or victims.
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Post by Boshek on Apr 10, 2014 21:35:15 GMT -5
I guess this is on topic: my best friend and I recorded this on a cassette tape as children, "Barry O is the champion ooooooooooooo *kept pausing the tape, taking a breath, recording us saying o*
Preliminary wresltler I guess us what we called them.
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Post by Mac on Apr 10, 2014 21:41:23 GMT -5
I used to think jobbers got paid more because wrestling was fake and they had to lose, look bad doing so, so they got paid more. I took this as a fact.
I grew up down the street from a WWF jobber (Chris Duffy) and he was friends with my dad, I just called them wrestlers, ones who always lost
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2014 23:04:22 GMT -5
My family referred to them as no-names. My parents would always say, "well, you know who's going to win this one!"
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Post by bootytea on Apr 10, 2014 23:05:45 GMT -5
I used to look at them as local talent that were given a chance to prove themselves.
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Post by RIHT on Apr 10, 2014 23:24:42 GMT -5
I called them " Losers". They always lost, so that's what they were to me. That Guy
As in "Man, Crush is totally about to pound that guy. Man, his tights suck." My friends and I always called them " nobodies".
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Apr 10, 2014 23:34:06 GMT -5
The magazines tended to call them preliminary wrestlers, so I used that term. Also, on TV, they were sometimes called rookies, even guys like Horowitz, who was there for years.
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Post by PTBartman on Apr 11, 2014 0:00:32 GMT -5
I knew the term jobbers, but me and my friends called them Generals after the Washington Generals. This was the mid Seventies and we were both wrestling and Globetrotter marks.
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Post by sawcesome on Apr 11, 2014 0:01:48 GMT -5
Beat-up guys.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 0:09:46 GMT -5
They gave themselves a name. The Job Squad.
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Post by kidtamagotchi on Apr 11, 2014 0:13:03 GMT -5
I used to call them rookies.
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Apr 11, 2014 5:14:36 GMT -5
Nothing. I called them by their names. When I started watching wrestling on a regular basis I watched every show WWF and WCW put out, so I got to see the jobbers on Nitro winning matches against each other on The Pro. It didn't seem like there were some guys who never won at all.
It wasn't until a few years later that I saw the J.O.B. Squad and watched that "secrets revealed!" show that I learned there were terms like jobber.
As a side note, I really, really miss that era of watching ALL of WCW/WWF's programming, including the C-tier shows. Seeing a wrestler rise up the card and eventually debut on Nitro/RAW was so satisfying. I could do the same thing now with NXT I suppose, but why do that when I can be posting on FAN?
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Post by keezy on Apr 11, 2014 7:06:33 GMT -5
Rubbish ones.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Apr 11, 2014 7:54:37 GMT -5
I called them nobodies because of my dad. He always used to complain that Superstars was "a bunch of matches against nobodies"
So ingrained was the word "nobody" for jobber that I remember my brother making a stable with our action figures where all of our nobodies (mainly our duplicates that we renamed and used as jobbers) called "The Somebodies" where they banded together and ended up winning the IC title. Good times.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 8:14:23 GMT -5
Scrubs, wimps, rejects, fat guy (usually Tom Stone or Rusty Brooks), no-names, nobodies, etc. (Some I haven't even thought about in years.) Scrub and reject were the main ones. None of them were disrespectful, just what we labeled them.
My dad would also call prelim guys "cabdrivers", which is a common side job for people looking to bolster their main income by driving a taxi. (Archie Bunker moonlighted as a cabdriver.) Another one was just "guys off the street". "I bet they got him off the street and said, 'Wanna make 50 bucks?' "
Of course we knew their names. They were big stars to us because they were on TV every week. Hogan or Junkyard Dog was once every two-to-three weeks. Iron Mike Sharpe, Ron Shaw, or Terry Gibbs were there all the time. And, who didn't love when Howard Finkel would channel that Spanish accent to announce "Jo-se Lu-IS! Ree-VER-AAAH!" (Then he'd get squashed by Cowboy Bob Orton.)
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Post by héad.casé on Apr 11, 2014 8:26:29 GMT -5
My friend and I used to call them 'no-hopers'.
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Post by Neo: "The One" who CLAPS on Apr 11, 2014 8:55:59 GMT -5
Read Apter mags as a kid in the 80's so "prelim guys". Raw Magazine used this term when I was a kid, so I called them this as well
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Post by Mista T on Apr 11, 2014 9:11:30 GMT -5
Disco Inferno.
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