10 Shots WWE Fired At Wrestlers (That You Didn't Notice)

5. Doing A(nother) Job

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A quality sideswipe that would have sailed over thousands of heads as it occurred, WWE's decision to name a jobber after a noted wrestling writer was the perfect shot - for those that knew the reference, it was delicious craic. For a vast majority that didn't, nobody got hurt.

There'd been precedent for this sort of thing before - WCW had Dr Death Steve Williams batter a poor goon called "Davey Meltzer" - but there was a time when Vince McMahon's methods actually used to be considered subtle by comparison. This, unsurprisingly, wasn't one of those times.

Detailed brilliantly by the man himself in this quality Twitter thread, PWTorch's Bruce Mitchell tells the tale of the time his name made it on to WWE Superstars in 1992, and the sh*tkickings his namesake took as part of the patter. As a lovely easter egg, it was in conversation with Dave Meltzer himself that he found out WWE's plan for his IRL moniker.

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