WWE: 10 Superstars Who Wrestled As Jobbers Before Later Fame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ADNugKtjVs Wrestling is an interesting, cyclical business. When attendance is down, TV ratings are in the toilet, and there seem to be no new stars on the horizon, professional wrestling becomes a snake that eats its own tail. In a bid to survive, the wrestling business recycles the jobbers of the world and turns them into superstars. Take, for example, the mid 1990s World Wrestling Federation. Business was terrible, live attendance was embarrassing, and the WWF had just lost Scott Hall and Kevin Nash to rival promotion WCW. In a bid to survive, Vince McMahon signed former perennial midcarders Steve Austin, Mick Foley, and Paul Levesque to try to capture lightning in a bottle. A few years later, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mankind, and Triple H were selling out arenas all over the country and leading the WWF to heights not seen since the glory days of Hulk Hogan. The point is that your next superstar can come from the most unlikely of places. Many of today's stars started out as losers who had the job of making their opponent look good. Through skill, charisma, or sometimes just blind luck, some jobbers got an opportunity to take the ball and run with it. Some became solid workers for many years, others became world champions, and some became legends of professional wrestling. The one thing they shared in common though was that they are started by counting the lights night after night.