Mike Enos was a really good jobber

[Dave the Dave]

It is something no one normally cares about, but this dude in WCW made people look good.

Whether he was getting steamrolled by Goldberg or putting up a fight againt Scott Norton or something, I think Enos did a great job.

He had a match on a Nitro in 1996 against Jericho, and it was genuinely good. They still hadn't made him a total jobber yet and JEricho and he put on a good match. The finish was pretty snazzy with a double reversal out of a powerslam for Jericho picking up the win.


HE did always kind of looked confused though

[thegame415]

He actually had a PPV match against Benoit. Why? I have no clue.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Both members of the Beverly Brothers deserved better than the got from the big two, they were big, tough looking rookies with bags of potential, then they hit the WWF and it all went pearshaped. They got saddled with a go-nowhere gimmick and they became jobbers to the stars despite being everything Vince looks for in workers, not even getting a renewed push when the tag team scene started to thin out.

[Capt Lunatic]

I'll handle this Mike...

Destruction Crew FTW

[________ has left the building]

WCW at one point did try to give him a push. But they teamed him up with Dirty Dick Slater, dressed them like gay bikers, and named them "Rough and Ready". Guess Rough Trade was too telling.

[willywonka666]

To me, he looked like what Brad from Home Improvement was going to look like when he grew up-although, i know he doesn't look like that for reals

[Dave the Dave]

He most famously was in the ring when Scott Hall debuted.

In a sign of WCW's lack of a good director, him and Steve just stopped wrestling and left so Hall could talk.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 4, 2015 10:29:01 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

To me, he looked like what Brad from Home Improvement was going to look like when he grew up-although, i know he doesn't look like that for reals

You know, the resemblance is actually uncanny.

[Sephiroth]

Is he related to cousin Enos?

[Joe Neglia]

One of my favorite wrestlers. Really should have been bigger, just wasn't to be, I suppose. One of my favorite moments is when he was teaming with Bobby Duncum Jr, the Outsiders had a match with them and cut a promo telling them to walk away. Enos and Duncum just look at each other then start wailing on the NWO members. Ended up losing, but for one second, they were right up there.

They seemed to be going somewhere later on when he was doing a bit similar to how Jericho turned heel, with him losing his cool after ever defeat and causing havoc at ringside. Didn't go anywhere, alas.

[Deleted]

I remember he had that cool Queen knockoff theme in his "confused look" stage,
Mike Enos' theme

this vid even used the same confused image

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Jan 4, 2015 14:08:08 GMT -5 @hellstorm said:

I remember he had that cool Queen knockoff theme in his "confused look" stage,
Mike Enos' theme

this vid even used the same confused image

"You will, you will pin me"

[lovingway]

I remember seeing a match or two where he was a referee (AWA?) so he had been around longer than I had thought

[Joe Neglia]

Jan 4, 2015 15:34:17 GMT -5 lovingway said:

I remember seeing a match or two where he was a referee (AWA?) so he had been around longer than I had thought

Yeah, he and several other guys (Brian Knobbs, notably) got their starts as refs in AWA while they trained, then became wrestlers.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

Jerry Sags was a ref there

[Square]

Ironically he just came up in voting for the greatest wrestler to never hold a title in WWF tournament I'm hosting officialfan.proboards.com/thread/513388/greatest-wrestler-never-title-tournament?page=14

[MC Blowfish]

The Destruction Crew was great in the AWA. I really wish they would have been able to use that gimmick or something close to it in WCW and WWF.

[efarns]

Does anybody remember Mike in the middle of Sid's "unbeaten streak" when he was just running in on multiple jobber matches per night to deliver powerbombs. The fans were chanting for Sid during Mike Enos match and he was just like "No, you don't want Sid. You want Mike Enos." Good stuff from a pro.

[Deleted]

I cared nothing for either he or Bloom when they were the Beverly Brothers. They were fine in the ring, but the characters did nothing as heels.

But I somehow really enjoyed seeing them in WCW being used, even as jobbers, quite often.

Of course then in 1998 or so someone said "Hey, let's team them up" and I totally appreciated the callback, especially since they never made a mention of their Beverlys teaming.

[Deleted]

Enos and Bloom were the one thing (two things) AWA did right at the tail end of their run.

Beverley Brothers were just awful.

I really liked Enos. In the late 90's I wrote some scripts for WCW and actually sent them to them via snail mail. I was only 16, so the scripts pretty much sucked, but one of the main things I remember doing was pushing Enos. I had Enos and Bret Hart wrestle to a 30 minute DRAW when everyone was sure that Bret would just squash him, then Enos proved it wasn't a fluke with several more great matches against top caliber opponents until he finally wins a big match and becomes a legit contender.