There will always be a place for jobbers in professional wrestling. When I first started watching, men like Barry Horowitz, Jim Powers and the Brooklyn Brawler carved out careers by being there to take falls against new and established stars alike. Just because we are now careering through the 21st century doesn't mean the art of jobbing is lost. Even so, a jobber must get some form of reaction from the audience in this day and age, and this is where Adam Rose falls flat. Heath Slater and Zack Ryder have a similar win-loss record to the Party Pooper, but the difference is that the crowd seems to care about them. Rose attracts only crickets, no matter what is tried. All of this is a huge shame, as when the ESPN NXT documentary aired Rose was one of the superstars featured, and the WWE Universe was finally given reasons to be invested in the man behind the character, a man who dearly loves his profession and has had to overcome incredible struggles to get to where he is. Instead of running with this, the booking team ignored the goodwill, and Rose is now in a situation where I would be surprised if he lasts 2016.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
