Palumbo's Top 10 Jobbers From WCW Saturday Night

Vince McMahon having an illegitimate son, who doubles as a Leprechaun, gives me a headache. I don't feel like bitching about it, and the contributors of SGM are smart enough to figure out why it sucks without me telling them, so instead I'd like to just think back to simpler times...


1994-1997 were pretty darn good years to be a wrestling fan. Aside from the advancement of Monday Night wrestling, PPV, etc, it was a good time to be a wrestling fan if only for the sheer quantity of programming you were alotted on a weekly basis; in what today would probably end up being overkill. For those years listed above, my brother and I stuck to a rigorous, no-days-off schedule of:

Monday:

RAW 9:00 pm
Nitro 9:00 pm

Friday:

ECW Wrestling 3:00 am
(we were blessed for 2 short years when SportSouth picked it up)

Saturday:

WCW Pro 9:00 am (The BOTTOM of the barrell of the WCW Talent pool)
WWF Mania 10:00 am (Basically a replay of RAWand you were stuck w/ Todd Pettengill)
WWF Superstars 11:00 (Usually decent Pre-taped matches)
WCW Worldwide 12:00 pm(Semi-watchable pre-taped "Disney" matches)
WCW Saturday Night 6:05-8:05 (The Grandaddy!!)

Sunday:

WCW Main Event: 6:05 (Only an hour, but we'd take what we could get)

When we got a brief run in 96' of AWF Wrestling, Thursday nights at 2:00, things had just gotten ridiculous. (If you don't recall or didn't read Apter magazines in that era, American Wrestling Federation was a small promotion out of Chicago that had ALOT of semi-washed-up WWF talent, even Nailz, and had a bizzare "round" system for their matches was just kinda wack all-around).

Anyway, the topic here is WCW Saturday Night. Saturday Night was more often than not, wrestling you could set your watch to, with Tony Schiavone and Dusty Rhodes at the helm. And even when it was boring, it was still watchable. Also, if you were like me and your hatred for Hulk Hogan in that era was so strong that his involvement in the n.W.o. "kinda killed it for ya"...you really didn't have to worry about them butting into your Saturday Night, cause Hall, Nash and Hogan only worked Mondays.

One of the reasons I always liked Saturday Night was you got to see the REST of the WCW roster, who often didn't get face time once Nitro got rolling. If your remember, the WCW talent pool was deep at the time, and Saturday Night was kinda the last place left that many of those workers could flourish in the changing times. You had an eclectic mix of veterans with good matches left in them, recent Power Plant graduates testing the waters, and some truly ridiculous gimmicks that will be expanding on later. Then there were the jobbers that held their head high, and were consistent, reliant jobbers you could count on. Who always showed up for work and gave it their best shot...but just couldn't seem to go over.

So let's take the next few weeks to remember some wrestlers who aren't on the tips of Hollywood's tonges at the moment...

Sadly, I searched the far corners of the internet for a picture of tonight's inagural member of Palumbo's Top 10 Jobbers From WCW Saturday Night, and came up dry and empty. If anybody can find one, please post it so we can appropriatley pay homage to...

#10 - "HARD WORK" BOBBY WALKER

Don't remember "Hard Work" Bobby Walker? Don't feel bad. You're probably not alone.
Bobby Walker, a graduate of the prestigious (cough) WCW Power Plant, set out on course to make it to the top of WCW's ranks through the power of a positive attitude. "Hard Work" would come out to the ring with a spring in his step; when he would pass the cameraman he would give a motivational line along the lines of "All this hard work's gonna pay off!!!" and clap his hands on the way to the squared circle. Which he would inevitably leave having done the job. Better luck next time, Bobby.

Here's The Hard Facts you need to know about "Hard Work" Bobby Walker:

* His tights said "Hard Work" down the legs.
* He was about 180 lbs. soaking wet
* Bobby Walker might have had a shot at moving up in the ranks if the Cruiserweight division was in place at the time, sadly he got lost in the shuffle by the time the Cruiserweight Division was really poppin'.
* For a brief time, they attempted to push him up into the D-level ranks by making him tag team partners with Sgt. Craig Pittman, and giving him Teddy Long (who had finally gotten his grill fixed at that point) as a manager.
* He later sued WCW for racial discrimination.
* Hard work apparantley did not yield the dividends he'd hoped for.

That's all for now folks, tune in next week when we crown the #9 Palumbo's Top 10 Jobbers From WCW Saturday Night.

Oh, and as far as the extra coke and whores on the Science Gone Mad AMEX, I've been under alot of pressure to perform latley.