Jobbers of yesterday, stars of today

[Next Man’s Yeeter]

The Kane-Sting thread made me wonder what matches people have found where today's WWE stars were used as Shotgun/Metal/Superstars/Heat etc jobbers. Apart from the Hardys, who were WWF jobbers for years.



Kennedy:
(vs Essa Rios)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lT8lLjkFy90

(vs Sean O'Haire)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2xJeRiIzp0Y&NR=1

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EDGE as WCW jobber:
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x30dXi7kGG8

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pmF5dC4XuWc

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It's easier to find guys from TNA and indies being used as WWF/WWE jobbers, but here are a couple:

Samoa Joe (vs Essa Rios)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E1N7xfb3g9A&feature=related

AJ Styles (vs Hurricane)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XR5tIFlhetw&feature=related

Does anybody remember Randy Orton's first match on WWF television? He was a jobber on the May 6, 2001 episode of Heat, where he lost to Billy Gunn. This was around a year before he debuted as an actual superstar on Smackdown. I've never seen the match and it doesn't seem to be on Youtube or anything.

[Vintage ToneBoat]

according to wikipedia orton's first match was against hardcor holly on smackdown april 25, 2002

[joker123]

Feb 1, 2009 16:48:26 GMT -5 Vintage ToneBoat said:

according to wikipedia orton's first match was against hardcor holly on smackdown april 25, 2002

That was his first match as a member of the roster....

[Steve.]

Hardy's for sure. Both of them used to get beaten on the weekly WWF shows.

[Jimmy]

I can think of some guys but they aren't necessarily stars or necessarily jobbers.

Anyone remember Shelton Benjamin's brief stint on Heat in 2002, where he beat Justin Credible?

Nick Dinsmore was used quite a bit as a WCW jobber before jobbing a bit for the WWF and eventually getting his shot at the majors.

Rob Conway as well. I definatly remember watching his fake injury against Orton on Velocity and thinking "Did a jobber just get the a small angle?"

[specterkev]

I miss those old shows that featured jobbers like shotgun saturday night and stuff like that. I'm glad they are brining superstars back though.

[mattoriginal]

Feb 4, 2009 1:51:10 GMT -5 Jimmy said:

Rob Conway as well. I definatly remember watching his fake injury against Orton on Velocity and thinking "Did a jobber just get the a small angle?"

Wasn't it Kidman, not Orton?

[mike massacre]

CM Punk in WWE before his debut.

[Next Man’s Yeeter]

That's really good for a squash match... It isn't really a squash match at all. How long after that was it that Punk won a match on Heat but they pulled it before broadcast and kept him in OVW?

[LA Times]

MVP was a jobber in TNA in 2004

Shane Douglas was a jobber in the WWF circa 1986

75% of today's stars have done preliminary work at one point in their careers

[mrbaseball]

I believe Mick Foley and Curt Hennig were jobbers at one time

[Next Man’s Yeeter]

Feb 24, 2009 21:24:46 GMT -5 mrbaseball said:

I believe Mick Foley and Curt Hennig were jobbers at one time

Foley definitely was, the British Bulldogs busted him up pretty bad. But in those times, it was easier for future stars to be TV jobbers because there was much more need for jobbers. Pretty much all wrestling TV in the 80s and early 90s was squash matches.

But for today's stars who started out wrestling in the 2000s, there were only the weekend shows and even they didn't always use jobbers... Hell, tomorrow's generation will be even harder to find old jobber clips of because there's no Heat or Velocity anymore.

[k5]

that rios/kennedy match is a good find.

[Matt]

Triple H
Matt and Jeff Hardy

Wasn't Bret Hart a jobber before he started teaming with Jim?

[Ross]

i rember samoe joe on smackdown losing to hurracane