Do We Still Need Jobbers?

The problem is a guy like Sami Zayn gets put into a "jobber role" where he loses a few matches, then when they finally decide to push him its impossible to bring him out of the basement. Do we need jobbers? Absolutely but we need REAL jobbers. Not every match needs to be filled with jobbers but when you water down a Regins vs Cena or Braun vs Lesnar with segment after segment, match after match...it makes watching the PPV brutal.

This. Bring in the jobbers, let the stars showcase their moves, save the big matches for main events and PPVs. When I've discussed this with others I've heard the argument that in this day and age, they need to have top talent constantly face each other to keep their audience interested for seven hours a week. However, its doing the opposite for me. 

Sami Zayn can be a jobber for the rest of his WWE career as far as I am concerned!

Same with Gallows and Anderson.

I never got the hype with those 3 and never will. And clearly the WWE doesn't get the hype with them either.

I think today's landscape would benefit from a Heat/Velovity-esque shows for each brand, where the talent comingles with Raw/SD where they are expected to lose, but the talent are still competitive amongst themselves on the low-card show. The problem with NXT is that when you're at the top of NXT, it seems you either go to the top of the main roster, or bottom of the main roster. There is no direct congruence between the NXT and main roster. Having a natural transitional phase like they used to have with Heat/Velocity introduced new talent in a realistic and organic way. The stepwise system of NXT to main roster is a huge barrier for today's talent and overall product.

Hell yes. Bring in local talent for this. Give local talent the oppertunity to feel what working infront of 16,000 people is like.

completely agree. Bring them back and use them to get people over like they used to do.
Ive said before and ill say again that I cant get into a character if they loose all the time then suddenly start to win out of no where then loose again etc.
Jobbers make the big stars look awesome and without damaging a potential new stars aura.

I certainly wouldn't want to go back to how it was when I was a kid. Where you'd get squash match after squash match with a few decent matches sprinkled in. But I wouldn't be against having some on RAW & SD from time to time. Because while I do love seeing top main event matches each week, it does wear away at the hype for a PPV match.

I honestly have not enjoyed feuds anymore close to as much since the days of squash matches. I think it's a very fundamental aspect of booking professional wrestling. Character protection is more important to live events and PPVs, but we live in the television era. Television when i was a kid was simply a vehicle to sell said events and PPVs, nothing more and nothing less. In the syndication era, the WWF only stood to make so much money off of the television product, so it existed as an hour long commercial for your local area and again... PPVS. I would argue that this was highly effective in regards to these products. TV was about establishing feuds and getting your moveset over, it was a lot of promo work and skinny fat asses getting pounded lol. It was short, sweet, and to the point. I liken it as a sampler of greater things, it wet your whistle for the good stuff.


Again now we live in the TV era, where millions upon Millions of dollars are on the line. People for whatever reason demand to see these stars beat each other on TV multiple times a year, not sure how that makes the PPV still work for these people. I don't hate wrestling television post 80's, i thought Raw through out 1996-97 put on a very good weekly show while still protecting the wrestlers in a 2 hour format. 3 though? It's absolute garbage imo, nothing good comes of it. We're not even in a boom period, how is their demand for this much wrestling content?