Palumbo's Top 10 Jobbers From WCW Saturday Night - #9

I turned 27 years old today. It's also been one of the wackest days I've had in some time. Regardless...

What became of tag team wrestling?

I know Vince McMahon considers tag team action to be old-school and past it's sell-by date, but professional wrestling is feeling the loss of a crucial cog in the wheel. Literally, we have Cade & Murdoch and Team Angle (or whatever Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin go by these days) and that's it, aside from any teams TNA might have, I don't see their programming that often.

During the "Golden Era" that I speak so much of, WCW had a wide tag team roster; regardless of the fact Harlem Heat always seemed to have, or be regaining the belts (10 times I believe), there were enough strong tag teams to keep the ranks competetive and the title picture interesting. By 1996 WCW could list Harlem Heat, the Steiner Brothers, Public Enemy, the Nasty Boys, Bunkhouse Buck & "Dirty" Dick Slater (don't laugh, they had a title run), American Males (sadly, so did they), the Faces of Fear, the Blue Bloods (Regal, Eaton and Taylor) and briefly The Road Warriors all as contenders for the tag straps. Even Sting and Lex Luger jumped back into tag team action during that time, winning the belts in January of '96.

What goes up must come down, and for so many teams to be able to draw and keep consistent heat, there had to be some Jobber teams on the payroll to pump up their win/loss records. Which brings us to this week's entry on Palumbo's Top 10 Jobbers From WCW Saturday Night...

#9 - HIGH VOLTAGE




Yes, the team of Kenny Kaos and Robbie Rage were graduates of The WCW Power Plant, much like last week's inductee "Hard Work" Bobby Walker. Coming out to the ring to music that wasn't actually music, rather the sound of "voltage", Kaos and Rage were essentially some big roided-up monsters who relied on power moves and a gimmick that wasn't all that amusing. The Road Warriors relied on power moves, except they had something called "amazing charisma" and a gimmick that = dopeness. So yeah, I guess you can't compare the two at all.

So here are The Hard Facts you need to know about High Voltage:

* Their finishing move was called the Power Surge; granted they didn't get to use it very often, but it was basically bitten from the Doomsday Device.

* High Voltage went to Japan for a brief run in order to try and learn "the stuff they don't teach ya at the Power Plant." They fueded with nWo Japan while working for New Japan.

* While looking through statistics and match results from Saturday Night, I discovered that on December 14th, 2006 High Voltage suffered a degrading loss to the team of The Renegade and Joe Gomez. Yet Renegade is the one who committed suicide...

* High Voltage broke up on September 5th, 1998 after defeating the team of Alex Wright and The Disco Inferno in Jacksonville.

* Matt Hardy's original wrestling name was High Voltage. He teamed with Venom, who later became renowed grapler Joey Abs of the Mean Street Posse.

And that's all till next week, kids. Palumbo out.