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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 10:26:47 GMT -5
From the past few AWA broadcasts on ESPN, I have noticed quite a few things. Mainly that many many moves make me cringe to the point of yelling out "that dude is paralyzed now". Then amazement :oas he gets up or continues to get beat down until the three count. I noticed the ref hardly ever goes over and asks the guy if he is hurt or not. I have seen some of the most horrifying DDT's on this show and I got to thinking if you were a "jobber" in 89, 90 did they even care about you or was it just a fact of the business.
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Post by Likwid[[Southern]] on Jul 28, 2009 10:43:54 GMT -5
It's called paying your dues. And also, since when has ESPN shown AWA from the 90s? I think you meant 80s.
Anyway, as I said, it's called paying your dues. Some of those jobbers became stars. Just about every big star you see has went through it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 10:45:54 GMT -5
AWA has been on ESPN Classic for a while now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 10:49:28 GMT -5
That's hardcore, but honestly I didn't remember a single one of these jobbers again. It was John Nord and Scott Norton as the Yukon Lumberjacks in the early part of the 90s apparently espn does show some AWA from the 90s I think it was April or May of 90.
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Post by redypiper on Jul 28, 2009 12:09:23 GMT -5
yeah, i know what you mean. if you watch some of the nwa from the 80's on wwe 24/7 you would see the same thing. ron garvin, arn anderson, nikita, midnight express ect. seem to have no regard what so ever for the jobbers. it's not paying dues, these guys had no hope of moving up.
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Post by June on Jul 30, 2009 19:33:04 GMT -5
If you want to see a good example of jobbers paying dues, then check out the NWA on WWE Classics on demand. The year they are in right now is 86. Watching jobbers get brutalized by the likes of Road Warriors, Wahoo McDaniel, and the Midnight Express is a thing of beauty.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2009 7:25:30 GMT -5
If you want to see a good example of jobbers paying dues, then check out the NWA on WWE Classics on demand. The year they are in right now is 86. Watching jobbers get brutalized by the likes of Road Warriors, Wahoo McDaniel, and the Midnight Express is a thing of beauty. True. I dont remember either of the guys names but Ivan and Nikita Koloff hammered 13 types of crap outta these two....... |
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Post by The Abdominal Toaster™ on Aug 21, 2009 14:22:16 GMT -5
If you want to see a good example of jobbers paying dues, then check out the NWA on WWE Classics on demand. The year they are in right now is 86. Watching jobbers get brutalized by the likes of Road Warriors, Wahoo McDaniel, and the Midnight Express is a thing of beauty. True. I dont remember either of the guys names but Ivan and Nikita Koloff hammered 13 types of crap outta these two....... LMAO it's hillarious because Larry Land was "huge" in 1990 well kinda.... sort of..... maybe...... NOT. I don't mind the ol AWA it helps me sleep! |
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Post by Lennon on Aug 21, 2009 19:44:08 GMT -5
It's called paying your dues. And also, since when has ESPN shown AWA from the 90s? I think you meant 80s. Anyway, as I said, it's called paying your dues. Some of those jobbers became stars. Just about every big star you see has went through it. They show episodes from 1990 all the time.... |
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Post by WCWA Online on Aug 21, 2009 23:18:16 GMT -5
If we're talking about jobber dying, look no further than the Mulkey Boys. The Mulkeys took some of the most ungodly beatings that they legitimately shouldn't have got up from on the NWA in the 80s. The Mulkey's beatings were so bad, they got their own portion on my personal website. Along with "Mr. Hollywood" Bob Starr, since we're digging up names from the past
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Aug 22, 2009 15:26:10 GMT -5
It seems like a lot of wrestlers back then didn't care about the jobbers. Plus, the jobbers were probably jobbers because they weren't in great shape and weren't very talented. So they likely weren't the best at bumping safely and selling etc, so the superstars might have thought they had to work a lot stiffer.
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Post by June on Aug 27, 2009 2:56:13 GMT -5
It seems like a lot of wrestlers back then didn't care about the jobbers. Plus, the jobbers were probably jobbers because they weren't in great shape and weren't very talented. So they likely weren't the best at bumping safely and selling etc, so the superstars might have thought they had to work a lot stiffer. That was a different era. An era where the Pro's were actually grizzled ring veterans and not underwear models with low wrestling IQ's. The jobbers got the crap beaten out of them on national television for two reasons: To convince the television audience that the action was legit, and because the jobbers had dues to pay. I long for the old days where a guy like Jack Swagger would be Mulkified. |
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Aug 27, 2009 19:50:21 GMT -5
And then you had times when the rookies murdered their opponents because they didn't know what they were doing. Witness "Rocky Mountain Thunder":
2:02. Ouch.
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Post by L 0 T T 0 on Aug 27, 2009 22:26:58 GMT -5
And then you had times when the rookies murdered their opponents because they didn't know what they were doing. Witness "Rocky Mountain Thunder": 2:02. Ouch. LOL, I was expecting bad - but not that bad. |
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Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Aug 29, 2009 8:02:21 GMT -5
There was this one match where the Minnesota Wrecking Crew did a Doomsday styled move and took the guy right over on his neck. And this guy....didn't get up. He was clearly hurt.
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Post by Ben on Aug 30, 2009 18:25:42 GMT -5
Watching AWA classics is crazy. Even Eric Biscoff was on it!
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