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What's with the JTTS lately?

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Guest HartFan86

On Velocity they had a couple and on Heat they have had a couple this weekend. I haven't seen that many on WWE shows since like...ever. Are we gunna be seeing more unknown wrestlers on these shows or is this just a coincidence?

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Guest IB2BLACK

I guess they need to make Heat/Velocity wrestlers look good. If they start showing up on RAW & Smackdown, then you have to wonder.

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Guest BoboBrazil

Hopefully we get to see more jobbers. I always liked seeing these new jobbers come in every week.

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Guest Spaceman Spiff

I wouldn't exactly call the "Jobbers to the Stars", considering who they were facing...

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Guest Trivia247

back in the day...Jobbers were Plentiful and main wrestlers used them to look good. Last few years There are only Main wrestlers...the Steve Lombardi's and Iron Mike Sharps and the Tony Garea's became the thing of the past.

 

I believe old school methods were better, if you showcase your main wrestlers, then pit them against local indi's and make them look good... How can you push midcarders when they get squashed by Egomaniac Main Eventers who screw the bosses daughter...I mean reallly.

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Guest MillenniumMan831
I wonder how much they get paid, for 5 minutes of fame.

I think it's something like $500/night.

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Guest AndrewTS
I wouldn't exactly call the "Jobbers to the Stars", considering who they were facing...

The term is wrong--just jobbers works.

 

JTTS are over midcarders who are viewed with credibility, but not as main eventers. Scott Hall was a perennial JTTS, either in WCW or WWF (although you might expect him to win the title in WCW).

 

Most of the Raw roster except for HHH would be JTTS, except for the sole star, HHH.

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Guest AndrewTS
Then shouldn't Raw's players be simple Jobbers to the Star?

Yeah, but Kane is a temporary "star" right now.

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Guest cynicalprofit

Bring on the idny talent, YES!

 

Heres hoping Vince grabs some ROH and NWA guys just because he can, they get great reactions, and Vinces signs them.

 

*wakes up from dream*

 

huh, what....oh man, indy guys are cool and all, but that era is passe(sp).

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Guest Army Eye

Scott Hall? There's no way he was a JTTS. He won multiple singles and tag titles, and just never got anywhere near JTTS level.

 

A JTTS is a guy who gets no push and can only beat jobbers, and maybe another JTTS once in a great while. Typically they would get sacrificed to whatever new guy was getting a push. Koko B. Ware, Virgil, Skinner, Hercules, Aldo Montoya are some classic examples.

 

A contemporary JTTS could be someone like, say, Crash Holly, or D-Lo, but really the term is not as applicable anymore, since the phenomenon of the 'jobber match' is all but dead. As the OP notes, maybe it's coming back but I sure don't watch Heat or Velocity so I couldn't tell you.

 

 

Just to clarify, for the guy who posted first:

jobber - no gimmick, no mic time, never wins

jobber to the stars - has a gimmick, probably DID get a big push at some time in the past, but now is reduced to padding his win/loss by beating jobbers but losing to everyone else :)

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Guest Big McLargeHuge

By that definition (which is pretty dead on), you described Chris Jericho perfectly.

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Guest Big McLargeHuge

You're right. That victory over Trish last week had to be one of the greatest moments in his career.

 

I'm venting, I know, but I have to.

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Guest buffybeast
Just to clarify, for the guy who posted first:

jobber - no gimmick, no mic time, never wins

jobber to the stars - has a gimmick, probably DID get a big push at some time in the past, but now is reduced to padding his win/loss by beating jobbers but losing to everyone else :)

Sounds like Albert as of late........ :(

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Guest Mad Dog

I would call Scott Hall a JTTS. Yes he got a bunch of titles but he could never beat the top tier. He's a 90s version of Greg Valentine.

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Guest buffybeast

I thought the only reason why Greg Valentine got any of his titles was because he was sleeping with a male member of management.

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Guest bravesfan

I believe Hall was JTTS in his WCW run. Yes, the guy held the U.S., Television and Tag Titles, yet he never beat anyone in the upper-midcard or main event tiers, besides Booker T.

 

 

JTTS's are mid-card to upper midcarders that hold useless titles and do not beat anyone of considerable heat (Lance Storm, Test and Christian, for example) not curtain-jerkers like Crash or D'Lo (even though I like them both).

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Guest notJames
A JTTS is a guy who gets no push and can only beat jobbers, and maybe another JTTS once in a great while. Typically they would get sacrificed to whatever new guy was getting a push. Koko B. Ware, Virgil, Skinner, Hercules, Aldo Montoya are some classic examples.

 

A contemporary JTTS could be someone like, say, Crash Holly, or D-Lo...

 

Just to clarify, for the guy who posted first:

jobber - no gimmick, no mic time, never wins

jobber to the stars - has a gimmick, probably DID get a big push at some time in the past, but now is reduced to padding his win/loss by beating jobbers but losing to everyone else :)

You are correct, sir.

 

S.D. Jones, Iron Mike Sharpe, Barry O -- Jobbers

 

Outback Jack, Tito Santana, Blue Blazer -- Jobbers to the Stars

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Guest Midnight Express83

Well he lost in 17 seconds. Big whoop. Besides, Wrestlemania 1 was full of jobbers to the stars winning meanless matches, with 2 or 3 major matches.

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Guest Trivia247

Wrestlemania's 1 & 2 wasn't as established...so you had the odd S D Jones, and George Wells remember him??? Neither do most people.

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Well he lost in 17 seconds. Big whoop.

[WWE Promotional Mode]NO NO NO! IT WAS 9 SECONDS! BUNDY SQUASHED JONES IN 9 SECONDS![/WWE Promotional Mode]

 

Heh, sorry. Had to do that.

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Guest Army Eye
I believe Hall was JTTS in his WCW run. Yes, the guy held the U.S., Television and Tag Titles, yet he never beat anyone in the upper-midcard or main event tiers, besides Booker T.

 

 

JTTS's are mid-card to upper midcarders that hold useless titles and do not beat anyone of considerable heat (Lance Storm, Test and Christian, for example) not curtain-jerkers like Crash or D'Lo (even though I like them both).

No.. that's not what a JTTS is.

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