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Sometimes, jobbing is presented to a wrestler because of the problems and bad working relationship that the wrestler and the owner of the promotion have. At other times, it is a requirement of a wrestler's on-the-job training, learning how to perform in front of a live audience while helping make the
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A slightly higher position is "jobber to the stars" (also known as a "glorified jobber"), which is a wrestler who defeats pure jobbers and mid-carders, but who consistently loses to top-level or up-and-coming stars. This happens after a main-eventer or mid-carder loses their status and is demoted to
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World Heavyweight Championship to a 60-minute time limit draw in front of 20,000 people, ended up being a jobber in the WWF, which eventually led to other local promotions to give him a jobber position. A tag-team known as The Undertakers that did well on the independent circuit became jobbers when
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On the independent wrestling circuit, including the Mexican independent circuit, the star wrestlers with sufficient name recognition to be a draw would travel with their own jobber. Free from televised exposure, the star could beat the same opponent from town to town. Such a jobber could even be
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A job which is presented as being the result of an extremely close, entertaining match, or underhanded tactics on the part of an opponent, will not necessarily tarnish a wrestler's reputation, especially if the situation is presented as one where the wrestler "deserved" to win but was cheated. At
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and the British Bulldogs (during the "dishonest referee" angle)) before being pushed toward the bottom of the roster's hierarchy; others, such as Mick Foley, would later become main-event wrestlers. Some were given gimmicks of their own, such as Poffo (a poet laureate as a face and as a snobbish
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Jobber is a professional wrestling term used to describe a wrestler who is routinely defeated by main eventers, mid-carders, or low-carders. Most promoters do not use the term because of the negative connotation. Jobbers have been used since the 1950s, and they were popular in promotions of the
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towards the end of their careers. Many of these jobbers to the stars are heels who routinely beat up on face jobbers so as to build up a reputation of being reasonably capable competitors (which makes the stars all the more impressive when they in turn defeat them easily) as well as to earn
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other times a high-profile loss, particularly one which makes the wrestler in question look weak, foolish, or otherwise damages their reputation, might signify certain behind-the-scenes events that have real-life implications on a wrestler. Such a job may mark the end of a
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and were usually more competitive against their opponents, with several of these wrestlers gaining victories. In some cases, a number of these wrestlers had main-event matches at some point (such as Sharpe receiving matches against then-WWF World Heavyweight Champion
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and Trent Knight lost the majority of their matches. However, they usually scored clean victories against other pure jobbers. Wrestlers who worked as jobbers for WWE were also employed as jobbers in WCW during this period.
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during the latter's last heel run. Though Jacobs was squashed, he actually won by disqualification when Guerrero beat him with a chair. Another example of a jobber winning was when "
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A jobber may not necessarily lose, only make the superstar look powerful—or at least make another wrestler interfering with the match to look more powerful. One example is
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or the Mulkey Brothers grew to become household names to fans. Others, such as Trent Knight, Cougar Jay, Reno Riggins, Tommy Angel, Bob Emory, Ricky Nelson,
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elevated to champion status, entering the ring with an impressive sounding title belt only to have it removed at the end of the match night after night.
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is a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect information related to
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were the wrestlers most prominently identified with this role; other wrestlers who performed mainly as jobbers during this period included "Leaping"
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There are times, however, when a jobber will prove their skill, determination, and/or loyalty to the promotion and move beyond jobber status.
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intellectual, known as "The Genius", who also read poems as a heel) and Lombardi ("The Brooklyn Brawler", a smug, tough-talking brawler).
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began their careers in WWE as jobbers for a few years, before receiving their first push as legitimate contenders in the tag division.
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who enjoy seeing them finally get their comeuppance when they take on the tougher wrestlers. Heels can also be jobbers, such as
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smashed the aforementioned Emory against a podium and then hit him with a piece of wood, Kenny Kendall got hogtied twice by
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after appearing on a major promotion, giving them exposure they wouldn't receive otherwise. While being interviewed by
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did a jobber angle, in which his gimmick was "Who's Better Than Kanyon? Nobody". He ended up jobbing to opponents on
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or "dummy wrestlers". A wrestler skilled at enhancing the matches they lose, as opposed to a jobber, is called a
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would chew some fruit (usually pineapple) and then spit it over their chests, and so on.
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got Bob Emory's and Trent Knight's heads inside the sack where he kept his python snake;
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to lose a match, it is described as "a job". The act itself is described with the verb
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began referring to jobbing on-screen as part of his gimmick. He subsequently formed a
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Heels and some faces used to abuse and humiliate jobbers during or after a match:
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from being revealed. The term can be used a number of ways. When a wrestler is
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would allow his pet snake slither over his opponents once he pinned them;
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at the end of a match, Reno Riggins was made to put a woman's dress on.
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during the 1980s and early 1990s. In the 1980s, Lombardi teamed with
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they joined the WWF in 1992 and became known as Double Trouble.
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Sometimes, jobbing may be used as a gimmick. While in ECW,
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would cut their hair off (on those sporting long hair or a
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was given the role of "jobbing to the stars" by WWF owner
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Sometimes the opposite will occur, as was in the case of
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would cuff them to the ropes and beat them with a baton;
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jobbers rarely appear, but when they do, it is mostly in
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or Danny Davis working in six-man tag-team matches with
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and then stuff a hundred-dollar bill in their mouths;
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said he wanted to wrestle Strowman because "he likes
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