10 Most Infamous Wrestling Losing Streaks
2. Barry Horowitz
If one were to compare Barry Horowitz to Kenta Kobashi, the Wrestling Gods would drive them though the canvas with a Burning Hammer directly to the fiery depths below.
That said, Horowitz's improbable emergence in 1995 wasn't too dissimilar to Kobashi's in 1988 - the key difference being the intention behind it. Baba saw genuine money in Kobashi. Horowitz was the consummate, dyed-in-the-wool jobber - so much so that, in the absence of fans cheering for him, he had to slap his own back for encouragement. Fans didn't believe in him - he had spent more time on his back in the eighties than Muddy Waters.
In 1995, however, Horowitz won a WWF match! He had scored just one pin in another jobberfied WCW stint in the early nineties. Prior to that, the poor b*stard once went 131 matches without a win.
In truth, the Horowitz push was as much of an indictment of the WWF's ability to create stars as it was a compelling, feel-good story. That it would never have happened in, say, 1998 confirms that he was a peculiar beneficiary of the era in which he wrestled.