The WWE brought back a glorious thing to WWE Monday Night Raw and WWE Smackdown Live this past week. Along with the roster split and WWE Draft, the WWE brought back the jobbers, wrestlers whose main goal is to lose to the WWE superstars and make them look good. The Raw jobber that lost to Braun Strowman actually found himself an Internet celebrity after the match.
The Raw jobber was James Ellsworth and he actually got time to cut a promo before his loss to the big Braun Strowman. Before the match started, Byron Saxton asked him why he was fighting Strowman on WWE Monday Night Raw. Ellsworth simply said, "any man with two hands has a fighting chance."
However, when the Raw jobber talked about how his dad told him that anyone has a fighting chance before getting his butt handed to him by Braun Strowman, he seemed to win over a lot of fans who grew up watching names like The Brooklyn Brawler, Barry Horowitz, The Mulkey Brothers, Los Conquistadors, and Iron Mike Sharpe.
"I'm 31 years old, and ever since I can remember, I've been watching wrestling. I've watched every episode of Raw since it debuted in January of 1993. And to actually get to perform on Raw was a dream come true."James Ellsworth even gets the chance to do a Reddit AMA, which will take place on August 2. Not many times has a Raw jobber get an opportunity like that, past or present.
Guys like Tyler Breeze, Curtis Axl, Bo Dallas, and more could have gotten more of a chance to get over if they had a Raw jobber to fight while getting their characters over. Could Honky Tonk Man have survived in the WWE today if he had to fight top stars every week, losing at least 50 percent of the time?
"The first guy I worked with, Jose Estrada. It was a television taping in Indianapolis. I went there and he made me press on him about 15 or 16 times, something like that... Steve [Lombardi] was on the receiving end of my 'green' punishment every night for a long, long time. Always kept a positive attitude about it. Terry Gibbs, the first guy I worked with on TV. All the guys there that helped me out."Now, it looks like the Raw jobber is coming back, and if James Ellsworth can become the next Brooklyn Brawler or Terry Gibbs, that means nothing but good things for future WWE stars.
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