10 Really Strange Modern Wrestling Phenomenons
8. Unjustified Jobbers
Wrestling jobbers, being jobbers, were never around for long. There purely to stare at the lights, in flattering big-bumping performances, their brief stints in addition to putting over the stars made a sort of fictional sense also. Defeated so comprehensively, why wouldn't a promotion give Chris Hamrick, wonderful bump notwithstanding, the heave-ho? He was, in kayfabe, a no-hoper at best, a liability at worst.
WWE's financial muscle in the years since has flexed and fostered the rise of the permanent enhancement talent, which manifests as monumentally tedious and pointless television. Some of these acts try to or are given something marginally entertaining to do with a nailed-on outcome. Curt Hawkins' losing streak yields the odd tragically optimistic and thus blackly comic promo. The Ascension were alright in the Fashion Files skits. But mostly, there is a fleet of undercard performers who contribute nothing to the product aside from defeats that are as inevitable as they are unoriginal as they are repetitive, impressive only to the broadcasters who generate money from segments that fundamentally exist to exist.
When you allow Vince Russo to complain with justification - he'd do something with Epico Colon, even if it is absolute trash - then something is wrong.