6 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Oct 30)

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6. Return Of The Jobber

Asuka Jobber
WWE.com

Last year, WWE used – to great effect – enhancement talent to get new wrestlers over.

In short, the company employed local talent to play jobbers on Raw for Nia Jax and Braun Strowman. It worked, with both wrestlers demolishing the no-name opponents in impressive fashion to build a better resume without damaging anyone else on the limited rosters.

Monday, we saw Asuka defeat Stacie Cullen, a jobber who got zero offense in, but was physically abused by the Empress of Tomorrow. It was the perfect use of enhancement talent: beat them from pillar to post, pin them, repeat. No one suffers an injured reputation, and the star gains a convincing victory on television.

Here’s hoping WWE continues to rediscover this practice in moderation rather than jobbing out the same half-dozen wrestlers every week.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.