Jobbers that got to much TV time

[Essential1]

There is quite a few guys over the years who always seem to stick around despite being total jobbers. I know it's okay to have a few but some get a decent amount of screen time despite having no connection with the audience. My list is:

Taka Michinoku - Never understood what was so special about him. He was skinny as heel and had no charisma yet was featured. In the early 2000s him and Funaki were bounced from being jobbers to actual challengers for the titles.

Lance Storm - He was jobbed out and made to look like a joke in 2003 and did nothing of note. He was a jobber from day one in the WWE yet they would keep him around anyway. No wonder he's so grumpy.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

I'm guessing that because TAKA and Storm had prominent reputations elsewhere, WWE felt that they could "give rubs" to the people they jobbed to.

Guys like Lance Storm who have great technical prowess, could easily be booked as a credible threat even if they lose every match to the lowest guys on the totem pole.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Um... I think you're mixing up being a jobber and you personally not liking someone.

[________ has left the building]

Jobbers are people like the Brooklyn Brawler, Dusty Wolfe, Duane Gill, and Reno Riggins. You are talking about something completely different.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

The guys you're describing are "solid hands", guys that can be relied on to have a good match with nearly anyone, not jobbers.

[unclesoda]

The next generation's Koko B Ware and later years Tito Santana if you wheeel.

[Glitch]

Scotty 2 Hotty?

[mrjl]

Barry Horowitz, Jim Powers, Iron Mike Sharpe, Dale Wolfe, Reno Riggins.

[YiHammer]

Taka was awesome and one of the best wrestlers on the roster

[Jimmy]

Dec 31, 2012 15:16:50 GMT -5 carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) said:

Um... I think you're mixing up being a jobber and you personally not liking someone.

This.

Also you are basically wrong about everything in your post. Kaientai were never booked as actual challengers, they got squashed by everybody. TAKA only got wins early in his WWF run before he lost the Lightheavyweight Title and didn't appear for almost all of 1999. And Lance Storm won the IC Title right away in the WWF and won most of his matches, even facing Rock for the WCW Title.

[fw91]

Dec 31, 2012 21:47:22 GMT -5 Jimmy said:

Dec 31, 2012 15:16:50 GMT -5 carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) said:

Um... I think you're mixing up being a jobber and you personally not liking someone.

This.

Also you are basically wrong about everything in your post. Kaientai were never booked as actual challengers, they got squashed by everybody. TAKA only got wins early in his WWF run before he lost the Lightheavyweight Title and didn't appear for almost all of 1999. And Lance Storm won the IC Title right away in the WWF and won most of his matches, even facing Rock for the WCW Title.

indeed.

[celticjobber]

Iron Mike Sharpe, or perhaps Barry Horowitz. Nahh, I loved jobber squashed back in the day, so I can't say any of them "got too much tv time."

As others mentioned, Lance Storm and TAKA weren't jobbers.

[Paco]

[Slingshot Suplay]

Sal Bellomo. I saw him have a 15 minute time limit draw against Rick "Quick Draw" McGraw and wondered why he got so much time.

[BlackoutCreature]

Jan 1, 2013 2:51:15 GMT -5 Slingshot Suplay said:

Sal Bellomo. I saw him have a 15 minute time limit draw against Rick "Quick Draw" McGraw and wondered why he got so much time.

Ah, I remember the old days of WWF house shows in the 80's when it seemed like every show would start off with two jobbers wrestling to 15-20 minute draws.

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Jan 1, 2013 3:41:48 GMT -5 BlackoutCreature said:

Jan 1, 2013 2:51:15 GMT -5 Slingshot Suplay said:

Sal Bellomo. I saw him have a 15 minute time limit draw against Rick "Quick Draw" McGraw and wondered why he got so much time.

Ah, I remember the old days of WWF house shows in the 80's when it seemed like every show would start off with two jobbers wrestling to 15-20 minute draws.

From a certain standpoint, they were usually the most entertaining matches on the card. You didn't know who was going to win, mainly because both guys rarely won any type of match. Plus, the guys had an actual personality!

Gorilla Monsoon would also build it up as if it were a match with something on the line. (I always imagined if you won these kind of matches, you got the right to lose to a huge star on Superstars.)

But, if pressed for an answer, you couldn't call yourself a fan from 1985 if you didn't see Terry Gibbs or Barry O at least one per show.
As for the NWA, I could go 17 lifetimes without seeing Rocky King's 120-pound skinny ass getting pummeled. (I think his side job was doubling as the ring post.)

[nevthebassist]

Starts and ends with Duane Gill/Gillberg, in my opinion.

[bones88]

what about al snow?he was a jobber back in the day wasnt he?he was on the job squad IIRC I loved him though I didnt have a problem with his tv time

[willyjakes]

Terry Gibbs I remember well, he was a top jobber who would regularly used against talent they're establishing to help make them looks good. He was fed to the Ultimate Warrior early in his run to make sure Warrior looked like the beast they wanted him to be. Gibbs was a true pro.

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I think that he means JTTS, and they're always around because they make their opponents look good.