10 WWE Jobbers Who Became World Champion
9. Justin Credible
It's been said one million times before, but it's worth repeating: Paul Heyman's biggest strength as ECW boss was accentuating one or two key positives in each performer. Perhaps more importantly, Paul E (the 'E' stands for "Extreme" - OK, not really!) knew how to bury weaknesses just out of view so fans didn't obsess over them. That genius approach created stars out of WWF and WCW cast-offs aplenty.
Justin Credible was one of them. It was Justin Sane to watch him Justin Inspire on the ECW stage and become Justin Separable from the promotion's latter day product. Right, enough of that before everyone goes Justin Different to the point that's trying to be made here. In short, Credible went from WWF also ran to one of the new leading lights in Heyman's renegade group of ragtag hardcore warriors, and he visibly loved every second.
His fate had been somewhat different in the fed. There, Credible was jobber PJ Walker between 1993-1994. A full time contract followed, so Walker was turned into "Portuguese Man O'War" Aldo Montoya. He was originally supposed to be a famous football/soccer player, but eventually turned into a jock-strap wearing human jellyfish who hung around with 'The Kliq' on the road. WWF "creative services", people.
Don't ask! The gimmick change didn't matter (and neither did key alliances backstage). Aldo kept on losing.
That ran until 1997, then Credible was reborn under Paul's watch in ECW. He'd win the ECW World Title in April 2000, and Justin held the thing throughout the organisation's last lap before it dissolved in 2001. An uninspiring return to WWE followed; Credible went straight back to being a glorified punching bag.