My dad was a jobber/manager/ref. He made his debut managing Randy Savage at a show in Georgetown KY. He was friends with Randy, and Randy had him come out for fun that night. He then stuck around.
That's so cool. I always knew I'd never have the stamina for the road, but it would have been awesome to be the "local talent" now and then, as long as i wasn't facing the Road Warriors, Vader, the Steiners, Davey Boy, etc etc
The fact you gave a shout out to Barry horowitz... absolute legend. Him actually getting a couple of wins clean kinda took away from his jobber status and he was a champion elsewhere
It’s not really being recognised if you just lump them all into one group. It’s more insulting than anything, especially if you call them “jobbers”. Don’t think many wrestlers want to be remembered for that.
One thing that helps to make Curt Hennig the GOAT, is that he always let the jobbers get in a little bit of offense, maybe a minute or so, before destroying them. It always made them look just a tad bit better
@@gabepollock1641I was going to say something similar. By letting the job guy look somewhat competent, it made Curt’s win that much more impressive. Curt had a great mind for the business.
@@zlinedavidCurt and Bret are the two who seem to be most frequently cited as the GOAT by people who've actually wrestled them. I think that really counts for something
@@TheSuckoShow And with good reason. There’s not that many that get universal praise like that. Bobby Eaton is another. Face, heel, technical, brawling, high flying….nothing he couldn’t pull off convincingly.
One of my best friends was a wrestler and did the job for the WWF from 91 to 95 ish, he's had money stuck in his mouth by The million dollar man, he has been in Undertaker's body bag..he's done it all. He's good friends with Barry Hardy who also lives in my area. So K is for Kid Collins!
Iron Mike Sharpe. best jobber I ever saw with my own two eyes live. This dude legit worked hard to be the jobber he portrayed. There are even videos and editorials out there talking about how Mike Sharpe was possibly the greatest jobber in wrestling. He was a bit of a mainstay for WWF in the 80's I remember seeing him often on the Tv programs but ironically never in Main Events.
@@eugene4643 He was a BIG lad! Im 51 admittedly and all I ever remember watching him was how he would yell and growl sometimes whenever getting hit. Sold the bumps good but the verbalization from him just made it memorable for the kid/teenager in me at the time.
Couldnt agree more, Iron Mike Sharpe perfected the craft of being the "credible threat " jobber., he was quite the big boy ! He and Barry Horowitz would be my top 2 picks for best Jobbers of all time, in that order.,with an honorable Mention to SD Jones.
My favorite “jobber” was the Lightning Kid, or the L Kid, or the Kid. I stopped watching wrestling before Syxx became a name with the nWo, so I never saw Waltman in his prime. For years, I always thought he was just the random enhancement talent they used to put Razor Ramon over as a face. Your Reliving the War series has gone a long way in showing me what I missed, and I thank you for that.
Lightening kid ruled in UWF. His matches with Jerry Lynn are sick af even by today's standards. He just had so much success it'd be wild to put him in this vid
The thing with The Lightning Kid is that he had a lot of success in the indies, and was brought into WWF to merely appear to the fans as an ordinary jobber at first, but then to actually get a real push. You can't call him a jobber.
"Ham and eggers" was a Bobby Heenan go-to phrase, I think I heard it first from him. As for my favorite jobbers I don't know but I always remember Mike Sharpe, his heel behavior was very easy to hate, and whenever he was wrestling you could tell it was him on the rings by the constant groans lmao
he was mid-card in various promotions and also started there in the WWF but then sank to enhancement talent level. I remember he was still given the occasional tv promo in the mid 80s and would still sometimes win preliminary matches in house shows. He was also Hogan's tag team partner in a Japanese WWF tour in 1984.
I would love a “Wrestling Bios Presents: My Favourite Job Matches”video. There’s been a few times in my 30+ years of wrestling where a jobber has stuck out (for better or worse) and I think your style would make an amazing video.
I agree.... & when he got in the ring you knew he would lose but still felt like he had a chance I would take a picture with him & get his autograph if I seen him lol
I was a bit disappointed when the Medic got the nod ahead of Mario Mancini (Mario jobbed to almost every 80s WWF heel wrestler that I remember, even jobbing to Dangerous Danny Davis getting zero offence in the process, lol), but still a fun video :D
I love the videos that have nothing to do with any actual wrestling show or ppv. Like this one and the wrestling merch vids you just put out. They're massive fun to watch 10/10 👍
"That actually works really well for me, brother!" - Randy Hogan You had me laughing this whole video! Doesn't have to be a jobber video. But definitely give us more of your roasting!
You didn't mention the greatest jobber of all George South He still wrestling and even was ranked in the latest PWI Top 500 wrestlers He also has some very interesting shoot interviews on TH-cam 😏
I remember Dusty Wolfe getting destroyed by Bam Bam Bigelow on either Wrestling Challenge or Super Stars around early 1988. I remember Gorilla saying “picked him up like a sack of potatoes!”
I'm amazed that Paul Van Dale didn't get a mention, he was a good job guy in the early to mid 90's. Although nowadays he's better known as Carmella's Dad.
S.D. Jones was a rare case of a Wimp (jobber) having a WWF figure! The best wimps were the 1's used to grow the storyline. Like Brady Boone when Demolition kept Decapitating him and Billy Jack Haynes & Ken Patera (the Trail Blazers) came to his aid, only to get squashed themselves. Or really entertaining moments like when Dave Studemeyer di his rain dance to the HonkyTonk Man's song. Also Shawn Michaels once super-kicked a wimp outside the ring, then waited for the ref to reach 9 count, before sliding back inside and winning against a wimp by count-out!
I think a very important jobber not mentioned in the video or even in the comments that needs to be recognized as one of the great jobbers is Reno Riggins
Buck Quartermaine wrestled Steve Blackman.....wow. The fact that Buck survived shows he can take punishment that would have shattered The Undertaker. Buck should be in the Hall of Fame
THIS! This is why Wrestling Bios is my favorite wrestling channel! I love the lesser-known things that are shown and the humor that goes with it. I was in stitches at the end from laughing so hard. Bravo! Thanks for another fantastic show.
my favorite Jobber was George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski, a Canadian professional wrestler, road agent, and referee, best known for his tenure with the American Wrestling Assocation
I remember Lord Alfred Hayes made a reference to Gadaski where Gadaski was the debut opponent for Ric Flair on a Coliseum WWF tape . Idk if that's true or not but shout out to Hayes for breaking WWF/WWE kayfabe if it was . Also RIP Lord Alred Hayes .
Oh man, Barry Hardy! That two-tone mullet and facial hair alone make him the prototypical late ‘80s/early ‘90s WWF job guy. Like, whenever I picture a jobber from that era, he’s who I picture.
One of the first WCW shows I ever saw featured PN News going up against a sickly looking guy called Doug Taylor. I know a lot of these guys are local Indie talents, but he really did look like he was someone they dragged in off the street! He was battered from the bell and became legend in our house. Happy days.
I was a pretty regular watcher of Dark and Elevation, and I got pretty fond of a lot of those jobbers. I remember specifically Baron Black's massive losing streak only to FINALLY get a win over Brandon Cutler in summer of 2022. A fun moment.
@@trentbrownstone1481Hey brother, I'm still alive and kicking, yeah, one hell of a tombstone taker gave me. Every time I see that footage, I cringe up to!
Defo need a part 2. Power Company, Mike Fever, The Villanos, Thunderfoot 1 and 2, Reno Riggins, Joey Maggs, Johnny Rodz, Rusty Brooks and oh my god thank you for Randy Hogan
Dang, Frog really missed an opportunity by not using the Leapfrog for a finisher. Just imagine the impact to the opponent, being leapt over while running. There’s no recovering from that.
My favorite jobber will always be Barry horowitz great guy good wrestler always sold well and even guys like bret hart Kevin nash Scott hall and others have spoke so highly of him.
There was also another wrestler called "The Frog" whose real name was Tom Tomko. He wrestled in the British Columbia based "All Star Wrestling" in the late 80s and in other independents since. His father was Al Tomko who bought the promotion from Gene Kiniski and then ran it into the ground by 1989. He sometimes wrestled as "Zodiac".
To be fair, even from the little footage shown it looks like The Gambler really did love his gimmick, since he came down to the ring with a hand of cards. At the very least, that helps make him memorable, which instantly makes him one of the best jobbers in this entire video. I do wonder, though, who could be considered the most competitive jobber, i.e. the guy who actually had decently competitive matches every time but just never could actually win a match in the end.
Most competitive job guy? Barry Horowitz. He had the size and almost had the athleticism. If you needed a semi-competitive but ultimately a squash match, Barry was your guy.
@@zlinedavid Nice. I've seen Barry's wins over Hardbody Harrison(who is in prison) in WCW, Chris Candido(forgot what his WWF name was), and Johnny Swinger(TNA Impact).
@@zlinedavidYeah, but Horowitz actually wound up being given a minor push during his feud with Chris Candido/Skip in 1995/1996, so I think that kind of DQs him from contention.
Some of these guys should be in the Hall of Fame. The people in the Hall of Fame are there because of people like the ones in this video. They deserve to be recognized.
Wow, Old School Oliver John stirs up some fond memories from when I started training in 2009. Oliver was the APW champ at the time. Being a nervous beginner, I was surprised how approachable he was despite being an intense heel. Really helpful when it came to wrestling psychology. I'll never forget his feud with Dylan Drake which resulted in an amazing cage match.
About time someone put these guys over. It wasn't mentioned, but Buck Quartermain also worked a while with ECW. I go back a long way as a wrestling fan, so I remember job guys from the days when all you saw on TV wrestling were squash matches. Guys like: Tomas Marin, Joe Turco, Rocky Tamayo, Mike Pappas, Mike "Porky Pig" Loren (who often came to the ring with a piglet on a leash), Pete Doherty, Lenny Solomon, Vicente Pometti, The Cisco Kid, Lee Wong, Juan Caruso, Pancho Valdez, Jim Lancaster, and way more than you can count, and they existed only to get the holy hell beaten out of them. And of course, the King of the Jobbers himself, the unpredictable Johnny Rodz.
Dale Wolfe and George South are known to be GREAT trainers. "Snake Watson" sounds like at least a mid-card name. "Peter Weeks" sounds like a tag team member. I also remember Bobby "The Brain" Heenan saying this about Ricky Ataki: "After you wrestle him, you want to wrestle him again five minutes later." or something like that.
My coworker has a friend that has been in the indy scene. I don't know what's come of it but, this friend received a phone call from the NWA to come and do some jobs locally when they come to town. I guess he told my coworker that if he could he'd have him come to the ring with him one time. That sounds like the coolest thing to me. That would practically be a dream come true.
Fun fact about Toad - he was roommates with Lodi and his name is mentioned on Lodi's signs a few times during the Flock era. Guess Lodi had a little stroke getting his bud to do the job in WCW
@WrestlingBios I watched this video and cried; I called my neighbor to watch with me, and we cried a lot. We summoned the entire village, and we are now crying together. God bless you Sir and Fantastic videos🍻🍻🍻Sit back and relax and watch some Wrestling Bios
Fun fact about Peter Weeks: He was originally supposed to be given the “Boy Toy/HBK” gimmick based off his good looks, but Shawn Michaels politicked in order to steal it from him.
I'm familiar with Toad! He was big in the late 90s early 2000s on the Raleigh, NC Indy scene. I would see him jogging along with Murry Halper who wrestled as Otto Schwanz and one of the Dupp Brothers in ECW along the Crabtree Valley nature trails. I think Toad went on to be a barber.
I'm actually happy I wasn't mentioned. 😂More often that not this kind of stuff is done to mock and make fun of those doing that for a living. I always say who did they ever wrestle and I made a living doing it, didn't have to have a real job and that was more important than anything. I had the time of my life and was always treated with respect by those in the business which continues to this day. Thanks for the compliment on my punch.
Some of the first jobbers I remember watching were Terry Gibbs, Rick Renslow, Chris Duffy and Tom Stone. Mike Blackwell also deserves a mention for no-selling all of the Skyscrapers' offence in a 1989 NWA/WCW squash match.
So many options for J, but I would have taken Johnny Knockout, the guy who wrestled Braun Strowman because he liked big, sweaty men 😂. Gotta love that the guy took his one opportunity to talk and made it memorable.
Before watching this video, I DEMAND that The Gambler from WCW be on this list. I will update this comment after watching to make sure he is. YEAH GOOD SH!T THE GAMBLER BABY!
My man, M is for Mark Starr, nobody else. What a WCW jobbing legend. When I was a kid starting to watch Wrestling he was my favorite wrestler whatever that says about me
11:21 Holy cow Brian Costello that’s a name I haven’t heard in years, he used to run local shows here in Indiana at the cove. One of his events is where I got a picture with Brutus the barber beefcake and Greg the hammer valentine
I'd say that there should be an entire video dedicated to Canada's Greatest Athlete, Iron Mike Sharpe, but it would require a multiple hour video to adequately explore the greatness of Hamilton Ontario's greatest export.
8:16 I see what you did there, either that or it's a good coincidence that you just happen to say "Shocker" while Shockmaster himself Typhoon is on the screen
great video. Yes a 2nd one will be good. Also a video of Jobbers that got their big break - remember Matt and Jeff Hardy, took them years to get somewhere, but even as jobber Jeff, he took amazing punishment.
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My dad was a jobber/manager/ref. He made his debut managing Randy Savage at a show in Georgetown KY. He was friends with Randy, and Randy had him come out for fun that night. He then stuck around.
That's so cool.
I always knew I'd never have the stamina for the road, but it would have been awesome to be the "local talent" now and then, as long as i wasn't facing the Road Warriors, Vader, the Steiners, Davey Boy, etc etc
My dad is John Cena
@@randomaccount5616 you chinese ?
@@straightchad8059no he's black. That's why he can't see his dad
Im your 100 like
The fact you gave a shout out to Barry horowitz... absolute legend. Him actually getting a couple of wins clean kinda took away from his jobber status and he was a champion elsewhere
Love The Winner!
Bret Hart has said that Barry more than deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because he never once hurt anyone and knew how to bump.
My brother (best friend, whatever) absolutely loved Barry 0 more than some legit superstars
His ' schitk ' where he patted himself on the back before the match was awesome 👌 👏 👍.
I would love for ‘jobbers’ as a group to go into the WWE Hall of Fame. They need to be recognised for their place in creating superstars.
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It’s not really being recognised if you just lump them all into one group. It’s more insulting than anything, especially if you call them “jobbers”. Don’t think many wrestlers want to be remembered for that.
They should do a walk of fame but all jobbers
@@Ian-Omega🎯🎯🎯insult to injury ...sheesh...
This comment has to be pinned, just like every jobber.
One thing that helps to make Curt Hennig the GOAT, is that he always let the jobbers get in a little bit of offense, maybe a minute or so, before destroying them. It always made them look just a tad bit better
Curt Hennig understood something that so many of his era, and of future eras, didn’t: if you completely wreck the jobber, neither of you looks good.
@@gabepollock1641I was going to say something similar. By letting the job guy look somewhat competent, it made Curt’s win that much more impressive. Curt had a great mind for the business.
@@zlinedavidCurt and Bret are the two who seem to be most frequently cited as the GOAT by people who've actually wrestled them. I think that really counts for something
@@TheSuckoShow And with good reason. There’s not that many that get universal praise like that. Bobby Eaton is another. Face, heel, technical, brawling, high flying….nothing he couldn’t pull off convincingly.
i feel like a lot of main card guys did that otherwise they wouldn’t be on the main card. hell even a lot of mid card guys did that
One of my best friends was a wrestler and did the job for the WWF from 91 to 95 ish, he's had money stuck in his mouth by The million dollar man, he has been in Undertaker's body bag..he's done it all. He's good friends with Barry Hardy who also lives in my area. So K is for Kid Collins!
And now with the WWE Network/Peacock I bet Kid Collins even gets some free gas money from the WWE every year in royalties, so that's a bonus.
@@Obscusion2 I doubt these jabronis get anything when even guys like Raven tried to sue Vince over network royalties
Hope we get a part 2! We need Chris Duffy,The Gladiator,Rudy Diamond and The Legendary Frankie Williams
and T is for Tony Leone!!!!!!
@@jimmyjames6882R for Red Tyler and M for Mike Saxon
what are some of the all timer squash matches?
Wow you know your jobbers
Don't forget about the prestigious Quincy Jobsalot....
Iron Mike Sharpe. best jobber I ever saw with my own two eyes live.
This dude legit worked hard to be the jobber he portrayed.
There are even videos and editorials out there talking about how Mike Sharpe was possibly the greatest jobber in wrestling.
He was a bit of a mainstay for WWF in the 80's I remember seeing him often on the Tv programs but ironically never in Main Events.
I swear his arms looked larger than my torso 😂🤣. Seen him at a Toronto show ! Barely a teenager and alot closer to 55 than I want to be !
@@eugene4643 He was a BIG lad! Im 51 admittedly and all I ever remember watching him was how he would yell and growl sometimes whenever getting hit. Sold the bumps good but the verbalization from him just made it memorable for the kid/teenager in me at the time.
Couldnt agree more, Iron Mike Sharpe perfected the craft of being the "credible threat " jobber., he was quite the big boy ! He and Barry Horowitz would be my top 2 picks for best Jobbers of all time, in that order.,with an honorable Mention to SD Jones.
Well he was certainly the loudest jobber.
George South is up there!
My favorite “jobber” was the Lightning Kid, or the L Kid, or the Kid. I stopped watching wrestling before Syxx became a name with the nWo, so I never saw Waltman in his prime. For years, I always thought he was just the random enhancement talent they used to put Razor Ramon over as a face.
Your Reliving the War series has gone a long way in showing me what I missed, and I thank you for that.
he became a name b4 he became Syxx in wcw as The 123 Kid (93-96)
Lightening kid ruled in UWF. His matches with Jerry Lynn are sick af even by today's standards. He just had so much success it'd be wild to put him in this vid
The thing with The Lightning Kid is that he had a lot of success in the indies, and was brought into WWF to merely appear to the fans as an ordinary jobber at first, but then to actually get a real push. You can't call him a jobber.
@@Burger-urgerI remember that feud in the short lived GWF as well.
Ah yes, I remember him being “The Kamikaze Kid” for a bit when he debuted against Doink the Clown, before the night he upset Razor.
"Ham and eggers" was a Bobby Heenan go-to phrase, I think I heard it first from him. As for my favorite jobbers I don't know but I always remember Mike Sharpe, his heel behavior was very easy to hate, and whenever he was wrestling you could tell it was him on the rings by the constant groans lmao
Bobby Heenan: (1992 Royal Rumble referencing Ric Flair drawing #3) We were jobbed Monsoon, we were jobbed!
Mike Sharpe was a jobber who actually looked in good shape and could handle himself
he was mid-card in various promotions and also started there in the WWF but then sank to enhancement talent level. I remember he was still given the occasional tv promo in the mid 80s and would still sometimes win preliminary matches in house shows. He was also Hogan's tag team partner in a Japanese WWF tour in 1984.
@@sartanawillpay7977 Yeah, I know he only got really jobbed out when he joined the WWF. He has titles on NWA and other promotions.
He also had a title shot against Backlund in WWF @@kaylemain2006
The true unsung heroes of the wrestling business. Also some absolute glorious mullets!!
hall of famer in my book, one of my most vivid memories of wrestling as a kid was seeing Brawler getting drubbed in the ring week in and week out.
I would love a “Wrestling Bios Presents: My Favourite Job Matches”video. There’s been a few times in my 30+ years of wrestling where a jobber has stuck out (for better or worse) and I think your style would make an amazing video.
Mean Street Posse Losing to Jobbers on WWF (WWE)
I do have a favorite jobber, that will always be Brooklyn Brawler. No doubt in my mind. Even though he had more personality than most jobbers
Is he in hall of fame? He should be if not!
He stuck around the WWE for something like 26 years.
In my eyes Brooklyn Brawler is the greatest jobber in the history of professional wresztling.
@iamrob840 right?. Everyone remembers him. Still surprised he's not in the hall!
I agree.... & when he got in the ring you knew he would lose but still felt like he had a chance I would take a picture with him & get his autograph if I seen him lol
"While Watson used his real intimidating name, Dave". I literally spat my drink out when you said that. Hilarious 😅. Another good video brother 👍🏻.
I was a bit disappointed when the Medic got the nod ahead of Mario Mancini (Mario jobbed to almost every 80s WWF heel wrestler that I remember, even jobbing to Dangerous Danny Davis getting zero offence in the process, lol), but still a fun video :D
I knew Mario Mancini..legendary jobber
Glad to see Eric Freedom in here. The man helped me a lot through my indy career, Sadly he's about to retire beginning of next year.
All the best for your journey ahead man. Hope you make waves somewhere.
I love the videos that have nothing to do with any actual wrestling show or ppv. Like this one and the wrestling merch vids you just put out. They're massive fun to watch 10/10 👍
Agree 100% nice to mix it up once in a while.
"That actually works really well for me, brother!" - Randy Hogan
You had me laughing this whole video! Doesn't have to be a jobber video. But definitely give us more of your roasting!
I actually released a figure of Randy Hogan
LA gore looks like you mixed DDP & Magnum TA in a CAW and that's who came out 😂
You didn't mention the greatest jobber of all George South He still wrestling and even was ranked in the latest PWI Top 500 wrestlers He also has some very interesting shoot interviews on TH-cam 😏
Showed up on Talking Shopamania
Amen!
George is amazing! I grew up watching him and actually honored to get the chance to release his first figure!
Dale Wolfe was the first jobber who stood out to me when I was growing up. An enhancement talent legend for sure.
I thought the same thing. I remember him facing Max Moon (Konnan) in WWE in the early 90’s.
I remember Dusty Wolfe getting destroyed by Bam Bam Bigelow on either Wrestling Challenge or Super Stars around early 1988. I remember Gorilla saying “picked him up like a sack of potatoes!”
I'm amazed that Paul Van Dale didn't get a mention, he was a good job guy in the early to mid 90's. Although nowadays he's better known as Carmella's Dad.
Definitely a part 2 is needed.
"The Italian stallion", and "Jim Powers" needed to be included.
I was waiting for The Italian Stallion too. Joe Thurman also needs a mention for the Vader injury.
S.D. Jones was a rare case of a Wimp (jobber) having a WWF figure!
The best wimps were the 1's used to grow the storyline. Like Brady Boone when Demolition kept Decapitating him and Billy Jack Haynes & Ken Patera (the Trail Blazers) came to his aid, only to get squashed themselves.
Or really entertaining moments like when Dave Studemeyer di his rain dance to the HonkyTonk Man's song.
Also Shawn Michaels once super-kicked a wimp outside the ring, then waited for the ref to reach 9 count, before sliding back inside and winning against a wimp by count-out!
I wonder if it was because S.D. was really over in the Caribbean. I’m sure they would buy his action figure very much down there.
13:00 Hulk hogan without creative control😂
Love these different kind of wrestling videos. Well done.
I think a very important jobber not mentioned in the video or even in the comments that needs to be recognized as one of the great jobbers is Reno Riggins
Agreed
I released a figure of him
I think the same with Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker
Buck Quartermaine wrestled Steve Blackman.....wow. The fact that Buck survived shows he can take punishment that would have shattered The Undertaker. Buck should be in the Hall of Fame
THIS! This is why Wrestling Bios is my favorite wrestling channel! I love the lesser-known things that are shown and the humor that goes with it. I was in stitches at the end from laughing so hard. Bravo! Thanks for another fantastic show.
I'm patiently waiting for reliving the war when nitro gets to 69 wins and that laugh when it happens lol
my favorite Jobber was George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski, a Canadian professional wrestler, road agent, and referee, best known for his tenure with the American Wrestling Assocation
Yes!!!
A couple more of the great AWA jobbers- Sodbuster Kenny Jay & Jake the Milkman Milliken
I remember Lord Alfred Hayes made a reference to Gadaski where Gadaski was the debut opponent for Ric Flair on a Coliseum WWF tape . Idk if that's true or not but shout out to Hayes for breaking WWF/WWE kayfabe if it was . Also RIP Lord Alred Hayes .
Oh man, Barry Hardy! That two-tone mullet and facial hair alone make him the prototypical late ‘80s/early ‘90s WWF job guy. Like, whenever I picture a jobber from that era, he’s who I picture.
One of the first WCW shows I ever saw featured PN News going up against a sickly looking guy called Doug Taylor. I know a lot of these guys are local Indie talents, but he really did look like he was someone they dragged in off the street! He was battered from the bell and became legend in our house. Happy days.
Some of my favourite parts of AEW is bringing back the jobber fodder matches, especially on Dark, they're always fun.
I was a pretty regular watcher of Dark and Elevation, and I got pretty fond of a lot of those jobbers. I remember specifically Baron Black's massive losing streak only to FINALLY get a win over Brandon Cutler in summer of 2022. A fun moment.
@@MrMrMrprofessorI think that after that fight they hired him.
Damn, Taker's piledriver on Al Philips at the beginning looked absolutely brutal. Glad he got his arm to break that fall.
Bro I thought I was the only one to see that lol looked deadly, prolly still hurts if we're being honest
@@trentbrownstone1481Hey brother, I'm still alive and kicking, yeah, one hell of a tombstone taker gave me. Every time I see that footage, I cringe up to!
Defo need a part 2. Power Company, Mike Fever, The Villanos, Thunderfoot 1 and 2, Reno Riggins, Joey Maggs, Johnny Rodz, Rusty Brooks and oh my god thank you for Randy Hogan
Videos like this are the sole reason the internet was created. Nicely Done Sir, Thank you.
As someone who's watched a lot of OSW i popped big time for the guy listed as entry: K who i refuse to type the name of.
Dang, Frog really missed an opportunity by not using the Leapfrog for a finisher. Just imagine the impact to the opponent, being leapt over while running. There’s no recovering from that.
Your sitting on a gold mine with that idea sir.
Wow what a great video. I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Excellent work Wrestling Bios. 🤣🤣🤣
Yes! I was hoping for a vid on this. I always will remember Iron Mike Sharpe's yells of pain when he got chopped.
The Gambler was one of my favorite gimmicks. So much charisma for someone doing the job.
Got to have George South on the list. Definitely an upper tier enhancement talent!
Absolutely! Mentioned him in a separate comment.
George is amazing!
I just ended a pre order for a figure of him
My favorite jobber will always be Barry horowitz great guy good wrestler always sold well and even guys like bret hart Kevin nash Scott hall and others have spoke so highly of him.
Davey Meltzer should get a shout out, the ultimate in Carney pettiness
Along with all modern wrestlers from the last 15-20 years.
There was also another wrestler called "The Frog" whose real name was Tom Tomko. He wrestled in the British Columbia based "All Star Wrestling" in the late 80s and in other independents since. His father was Al Tomko who bought the promotion from Gene Kiniski and then ran it into the ground by 1989. He sometimes wrestled as "Zodiac".
My favorite modern jobber is Santana Garrett. She pops up everywhere and puts on a good show even though she never wins.
And she's kinda hot too
I’d love to see a video about big name wrestlers who spent time as WWF/WCW job guys early in their careers, like Mick Foley and the Hardy Boyz.
To be fair, even from the little footage shown it looks like The Gambler really did love his gimmick, since he came down to the ring with a hand of cards. At the very least, that helps make him memorable, which instantly makes him one of the best jobbers in this entire video. I do wonder, though, who could be considered the most competitive jobber, i.e. the guy who actually had decently competitive matches every time but just never could actually win a match in the end.
Chris Jericho praised him in his autobiography
The only match I found on TH-cam where the Gambler won was against Scott Studd a.k.a. Scotty Riggs in WCW(Scotty Anton in ECW). Awesome guy.
Most competitive job guy? Barry Horowitz. He had the size and almost had the athleticism. If you needed a semi-competitive but ultimately a squash match, Barry was your guy.
@@zlinedavid Nice. I've seen Barry's wins over Hardbody Harrison(who is in prison) in WCW, Chris Candido(forgot what his WWF name was), and Johnny Swinger(TNA Impact).
@@zlinedavidYeah, but Horowitz actually wound up being given a minor push during his feud with Chris Candido/Skip in 1995/1996, so I think that kind of DQs him from contention.
This is great and was a long time coming, Wrestling Bios is complete.. maybe a part 2?
LA Gore was also a regular in IWCCW (International World Class Championship Wrestling). He was mainly enhancement there, too, but was pretty good.
Not included, but not forgotten; The Cuban Assassin, Scrap Iron Bill Ford, Avalanche, The Wolfman, The State Patrol.
Man I was hoping R would be for Rusty Brooks. His match agaist Hulk Hogan was epic.
I remember a Guy name 'Mike Khoury'. Always there on wwf superstars on sunday morning to do the job 😅
if Wrestling Bios does do a WWECW video he needs to do it drunk for extra laughs
Some of these guys should be in the Hall of Fame. The people in the Hall of Fame are there because of people like the ones in this video. They deserve to be recognized.
My absolute favorite jobbers were Iron Mike Sharp, and "Leaping Lanny Poffo" before he became "The Genius".
Wow, Old School Oliver John stirs up some fond memories from when I started training in 2009. Oliver was the APW champ at the time. Being a nervous beginner, I was surprised how approachable he was despite being an intense heel. Really helpful when it came to wrestling psychology. I'll never forget his feud with Dylan Drake which resulted in an amazing cage match.
Iron Mike Sharpe what a legend
One I wish you had mentioned was Todd Morton, Ricky's lesser known 'brother'. He got squashed by literally EVERYONE in WCW in 1993-1994.
An acknowledgment in the hall of fame would be a nice thing. These guys were a big part of wrestling
How did the legendary Marion Crumbley not make the list? I demand a recount.
He was the finest man to ever count the lights
"What a fun video about these lovable losers!"
**Gets to Snake Watson's death**
"Oh....oh..."
We must all give recognition to all these guys who helped the big stars get over
About time someone put these guys over. It wasn't mentioned, but Buck Quartermain also worked a while with ECW. I go back a long way as a wrestling fan, so I remember job guys from the days when all you saw on TV wrestling were squash matches. Guys like: Tomas Marin, Joe Turco, Rocky Tamayo, Mike Pappas, Mike "Porky Pig" Loren (who often came to the ring with a piglet on a leash), Pete Doherty, Lenny Solomon, Vicente Pometti, The Cisco Kid, Lee Wong, Juan Caruso, Pancho Valdez, Jim Lancaster, and way more than you can count, and they existed only to get the holy hell beaten out of them. And of course, the King of the Jobbers himself, the unpredictable Johnny Rodz.
Dale Wolfe and George South are known to be GREAT trainers.
"Snake Watson" sounds like at least a mid-card name.
"Peter Weeks" sounds like a tag team member.
I also remember Bobby "The Brain" Heenan saying this about Ricky Ataki: "After you wrestle him, you want to wrestle him again five minutes later." or something like that.
My coworker has a friend that has been in the indy scene. I don't know what's come of it but, this friend received a phone call from the NWA to come and do some jobs locally when they come to town. I guess he told my coworker that if he could he'd have him come to the ring with him one time. That sounds like the coolest thing to me. That would practically be a dream come true.
I’m friends with both Van Van Horne & Yellow Jacket (Kevin Lawler). This puts a smile on my face. And their shoulders on the mat.
Fun fact about Toad - he was roommates with Lodi and his name is mentioned on Lodi's signs a few times during the Flock era. Guess Lodi had a little stroke getting his bud to do the job in WCW
I remember Toad!
There was a small, but, dedicated message board fan base who were pretty hyped about him joining The Flock around 1997-98.
@WrestlingBios I watched this video and cried; I called my neighbor to watch with me, and we cried a lot. We summoned the entire village, and we are now crying together. God bless you Sir and Fantastic videos🍻🍻🍻Sit back and relax and watch some Wrestling Bios
Bro Wtf
Fun fact about Peter Weeks:
He was originally supposed to be given the “Boy Toy/HBK” gimmick based off his good looks, but Shawn Michaels politicked in order to steal it from him.
I'm familiar with Toad! He was big in the late 90s early 2000s on the Raleigh, NC Indy scene. I would see him jogging along with Murry Halper who wrestled as Otto Schwanz and one of the Dupp Brothers in ECW along the Crabtree Valley nature trails. I think Toad went on to be a barber.
I'm shocked at the absolute zero amount of love for Bob Cook ... the best punch in the business !
I'm actually happy I wasn't mentioned. 😂More often that not this kind of stuff is done to mock and make fun of those doing that for a living. I always say who did they ever wrestle and I made a living doing it, didn't have to have a real job and that was more important than anything. I had the time of my life and was always treated with respect by those in the business which continues to this day. Thanks for the compliment on my punch.
6:55 - this is a top quality joke. Subbed! And I’m also going to actively look for a place to use that with my friends
Jumpin' Joey Maggs of WCW Saturday night fame has to be my favorite jobber of all time...
Everyone deserves some shine in this crazy world of wrestling. Good job helping with that 😊
Facts
Quartermaine washes the jockstraps at the Blackman Dojo, and enjoys it.
We should all be so lucky to enter the Mufugg Dojo.
one of my favorite wrestling bios videos. Amazing to see some of these still had match fairly recently.
Some of your comments had me laughing so hard love love the content from RTW to these random ass videos 😂😊❤
It's so cool that as I'm watching this I keep seeing the "Likes" rise up more and more! Love all your content Wrestling Bios!
Some of the first jobbers I remember watching were Terry Gibbs, Rick Renslow, Chris Duffy and Tom Stone. Mike Blackwell also deserves a mention for no-selling all of the Skyscrapers' offence in a 1989 NWA/WCW squash match.
So many options for J, but I would have taken Johnny Knockout, the guy who wrestled Braun Strowman because he liked big, sweaty men 😂. Gotta love that the guy took his one opportunity to talk and made it memorable.
I gotchu covered bro.
Quincey Jobsalot is going to be my new jobber persona. Ill give you a shoutout when I hit it big.
Can you do another wrestling themes video? You're 1st one was really dope and I love your edits
Before watching this video, I DEMAND that The Gambler from WCW be on this list. I will update this comment after watching to make sure he is.
YEAH GOOD SH!T THE GAMBLER BABY!
I'm calling shenanigans for not giving C to one of the greatest hands the business ever had: Charlie Fulton. My runner up would be Cougar Jay.
Awesome topic! I would LOVE to see vids on jobber squash matches. Some of them were truly epic.
Can't wait to see a Part 2 in the future. More so to see Paul Van Dale, the father of Leah aka Carmella.
I’m adding this to watch later. But I already know it’s going to be awesome
Thanks for the Joey Maggs shout out! My all time fav jobber in WCW!!
My man, M is for Mark Starr, nobody else. What a WCW jobbing legend. When I was a kid starting to watch Wrestling he was my favorite wrestler whatever that says about me
Nothing wrong with that my friend!
I grew up idolizing George South Rocky King Randy Hogan Barry Horowitz Reno Riggins etc.
11:21
Holy cow Brian Costello that’s a name I haven’t heard in years, he used to run local shows here in Indiana at the cove. One of his events is where I got a picture with Brutus the barber beefcake and Greg the hammer valentine
I'd say that there should be an entire video dedicated to Canada's Greatest Athlete, Iron Mike Sharpe, but it would require a multiple hour video to adequately explore the greatness of Hamilton Ontario's greatest export.
123 kid was still my fav ever jobber twist
The Medic in WCW was generally played by Johnny Rich, who also did enhancement work for them under that name.
A brilliant idea presented in a superb way. That was fun to watch and interesting too. Thanks for sharing.
Jimmy Jack Funk, Reno Riggins, Barry O , Jerry Allen
Barry O got the mention and I never knew about Mr.X wow
8:16 I see what you did there, either that or it's a good coincidence that you just happen to say "Shocker" while Shockmaster himself Typhoon is on the screen
I like that you included some more recent ones as well
W.T. Jones is a good one for part 2
You should do more A to Z videos.
great video. Yes a 2nd one will be good.
Also a video of Jobbers that got their big break - remember Matt and Jeff Hardy, took them years to get somewhere, but even as jobber Jeff, he took amazing punishment.