Poop Master Flex
Mid-Card Championship Winner
Is jobber squash matches.
It's something you would see all the time before the Monday Night Wars and its something you barely see now. The match may not of have been competitive but it helped keep your stars over without having them in a program or something. Although squash matches happen from time to time its very rarely a legit jobber.
Take WWE for example, they basically rotate their jobbers and mid carders on a yearly basis which makes it hard to get behind anyone, especially when you try to make them champ (like Sandow or Swagger). They lose for a year straight then all of a sudden they are champ, its really hard to buy the guy as champ if he's just randomly thrown in that spot.
Now if you want to build someone like Wade Barrett but have nothing for him to do just give him 5 minutes a week to showcase his skills in the ring and on the mic, have him squash some no name guy and give him the mic to help garner heat. It's such a simple, yet effective way to get over your stars and it's such a simple device to make the talent in the locker room more relevant.
Ted Dibiase almost always lost his big matches but stayed a top heel for years by hanging with the top talent and beating the crap out of no name guys, humiliating them, then talk about how "Everybody's got a price!". It made him look like a top caliber talent even though he was just beating up Pez Whatley or someone like that and gave people a reason to boo him. Even Ryback got extremely hot for a while there and it all started by him coming out and dominating 2-3 guys at a time. It helped get him over and it just worked.
I'm not saying make every match a squash match like the old days but if they had 2-3 every show (which takes up maybe 20 minutes total) it can really help in getting their talent over more. It's hard to buy into lower and mid card talent if they just trade victories with no one really going over the other, or having them win for a month straight then have them lose for a month straight.
It's something you would see all the time before the Monday Night Wars and its something you barely see now. The match may not of have been competitive but it helped keep your stars over without having them in a program or something. Although squash matches happen from time to time its very rarely a legit jobber.
Take WWE for example, they basically rotate their jobbers and mid carders on a yearly basis which makes it hard to get behind anyone, especially when you try to make them champ (like Sandow or Swagger). They lose for a year straight then all of a sudden they are champ, its really hard to buy the guy as champ if he's just randomly thrown in that spot.
Now if you want to build someone like Wade Barrett but have nothing for him to do just give him 5 minutes a week to showcase his skills in the ring and on the mic, have him squash some no name guy and give him the mic to help garner heat. It's such a simple, yet effective way to get over your stars and it's such a simple device to make the talent in the locker room more relevant.
Ted Dibiase almost always lost his big matches but stayed a top heel for years by hanging with the top talent and beating the crap out of no name guys, humiliating them, then talk about how "Everybody's got a price!". It made him look like a top caliber talent even though he was just beating up Pez Whatley or someone like that and gave people a reason to boo him. Even Ryback got extremely hot for a while there and it all started by him coming out and dominating 2-3 guys at a time. It helped get him over and it just worked.
I'm not saying make every match a squash match like the old days but if they had 2-3 every show (which takes up maybe 20 minutes total) it can really help in getting their talent over more. It's hard to buy into lower and mid card talent if they just trade victories with no one really going over the other, or having them win for a month straight then have them lose for a month straight.
