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I like the jobber. Bring them back.

Do you think Marty Jennetty help eliminate the use of the jobber?

Are you referring to the incident where the Rockers injured a job guy? That could be a valid question, but I would think it just has more to do with today's audience. WCW Nitro, I think, effectively killed the job guys. Up unitl then, Raw was still having "squash" matches, but Nitro tried to raise the bar by filling shows with competitive type matches which forced Raw to do the same thing because given a choice between watching a competitive match or a squash, most wrestling fans will tune into the competitive match.

Another big reason, also, is that effectively working as a job guy is a lost art. Guys like George South, Barry Horowitz, Bob Cook and others were supremly talented professional wrestlers who were used in job matches to make the supposed top talent look good, not just to go in and get their brains beat out by some overmuscled, undertalented failed bodybuilder. Alot of those guys were, actually, better in the ring than the guys they were putting over. Today, guys like the jobbers that Ryback beats up are just random kids thrown into a spot to get treated like pieces of meat and, whether they have any skill or not is irrevelant. These type of matches, of course, lead to people turning the channel. The job guys back in the day, could have competitive matches and the guys on top were so good, that you would actually have job matches, in which, you thought the top guy was going to lose even if the job guy hadn 't won a match in a year. The ability of both men in the match to make you believe that is what kept the viewer interested. Like I said, it is a lost art.

To go a step farther, I think the jobber is still alive and well in the WWE. They have just changed the name from jobber to JTG.