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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 17:30:39 GMT -5
How did the same guys get booked for squash shows all of the time? Obviously some of them were local to wherever the show was, but what about the classic guys like Barry Horowitz, Tom Stone, Red Tyler, etc.? Did they follow the WWF around to get themselves booked? Were they essentially contracted employees and showed up for the tapings? How did that work?
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Post by Sigma: Current SRW Champ! on May 21, 2018 17:37:48 GMT -5
Seeing as how some of them were on house shows at the time, I'd think they were under contract as enhancement talent, but didn't get the fancy entrance music that the stars got.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 21, 2018 18:04:03 GMT -5
They kept guys they liked. Foley started out as a jobber and said he stopped taking the jobber bookings the second he felt the crowd recognized him. He didn’t want to get stuck in that role.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 21:07:22 GMT -5
Some were guys they originally had plans for (Mike Sharpe, Tiger Chung Lee, Salvatore Bellomo) and just never caught on, but liked how they worked and just kept bringing them back.
Guys like Terry Gibbs and "Brett Hart" (Barry Horowitz) made others looked like killers, while they also worked elsewhere. Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada fit here. (The latter recommended Gibbs for work; Terry was a titleholder in Puerto Rico.)
And then you had your old school "job for life" guys: Garea, Goulet, SD Jones. They filled roles formerly held by Baron Scicluna, Dominic Denucci.
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Post by Squirrel Master on May 21, 2018 23:12:38 GMT -5
Mario Mancini FTW
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Post by siredger on May 21, 2018 23:14:45 GMT -5
I'm a Ricky Hataki guy.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 21, 2018 23:35:19 GMT -5
My favorite was Buddy Rose during his later years.
I've seen clips of his territory days where he comes off like a real star, but Blow-Away Buddy was such a good bumper and seller for the WWE superstars. He was a great bumbling character and he knew how to made them look amazing.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 7:13:05 GMT -5
I feel like Devon Storm/Crowbar was the last recurring jobber (very late '90s/early '00s) who.....was known, and not technically a WWF/E guy.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 22, 2018 7:18:03 GMT -5
Some were guys they originally had plans for (Mike Sharpe, Tiger Chung Lee, Salvatore Bellomo) and just never caught on, but liked how they worked and just kept bringing them back. Guys like Terry Gibbs and "Brett Hart" (Barry Horowitz) made others looked like killers, while they also worked elsewhere. Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada fit here. (The latter recommended Gibbs for work; Terry was a titleholder in Puerto Rico.) And then you had your old school "job for life" guys: Garea, Goulet, SD Jones. They filled roles formerly held by Baron Scicluna, Dominic Denucci. Denucci had a tag champion run at one point, though I don't remember if it was of any substantial length, so on that front, he had more going for him than most of those guys. |
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Post by Dean-o on May 22, 2018 10:56:49 GMT -5
Although not technically a jobber, I was such a Jim Powers mark growing up, and it crushed me seeing him comig up short all the time against the heels of the early 90’a.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 22, 2018 11:11:32 GMT -5
Techinically very few of these guys were jobbers in the original sense of the word. A jobber was a guy hired for TV only. They were paid per appearance at tapings while the roster guys did not. The rest were paid off the gate of live shows. So even someone like Horowitz was getting paid from the gate.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 12:18:33 GMT -5
Some were guys they originally had plans for (Mike Sharpe, Tiger Chung Lee, Salvatore Bellomo) and just never caught on, but liked how they worked and just kept bringing them back. Guys like Terry Gibbs and "Brett Hart" (Barry Horowitz) made others looked like killers, while they also worked elsewhere. Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada fit here. (The latter recommended Gibbs for work; Terry was a titleholder in Puerto Rico.) And then you had your old school "job for life" guys: Garea, Goulet, SD Jones. They filled roles formerly held by Baron Scicluna, Dominic Denucci. Denucci had a tag champion run at one point, though I don't remember if it was of any substantial length, so on that front, he had more going for him than most of those guys. True, he won with Dino Bravo (the second one we all know, not the first whose real name was Dino Bravo), but Dom was like Tony Garea. He would beat lower card guys but lose to the ones on their way up the ladder. Best way to get to Bruno was to beat Dom. And, like Garea, he'd be on a never-ending quest to find tag partners. Most of them were pure jobbers like Frank Williams. He added star power to an obvious squash match. |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 21:11:01 GMT -5
Although not technically a jobber, I was such a Jim Powers mark growing up, and it crushed me seeing him comig up short all the time against the heels of the early 90’a. haha thats hilarious because I was a Scott Putsky mark and felt the same way |
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 22, 2018 21:56:47 GMT -5
Although not technically a jobber, I was such a Jim Powers mark growing up, and it crushed me seeing him comig up short all the time against the heels of the early 90’a. haha thats hilarious because I was a Scott Putsky mark and felt the same way And Scott was the son of a Huuuge star. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 8:28:57 GMT -5
Scott Putski had an odd career. Everywhere he went he'd get this superstar push, then 3-4 weeks after he'd debut he's just treated as "some guy" in the ring.
What didn't help him in the WWF was that he was one of about 5-6 other second-generation guys coming up the ranks at the same time. (The 3 Boricuas not named Savio, Rock, Eric Shelley, Brian Christopher.) And he got lost in the shuffle. (Then tore up his knee.)
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