* Paul Wight (TheBigShow) achieved mega-stardom in his rookie year by not only winning the WCW championship, but by being the only wrestler in history to win Pro Wrestling Illustrated's (the Bible of Professional Wrestling) Rookie of the Year and Wrestler of the Year awards. Since then, he has rarely held any belt, and is usually either in squashes or jobs. He has jobbed to ChrisBenoit, KevinNash (good matches, actually) and much smaller wrestlers. Outside of his occasional main event runs, he's basically the WWE equivalent of a GiantMook. He is, however, the only wrestler to date to have held the WCW, WWE, ''and'' ECW titles in the course of his career.
* AndreTheGiant would often have 1 month contracts, and his first and only loss would occur at the next supercard.
* RonSimmons (with [[JohnBradshawLayfield Bradshaw]] as The Acolytes) never received a singles push in the WWE (although he did become the first black WCW World Champion), and would only see action backstage in promos, after the runaway success of Doom (with Butch Reed) and the failed push with the Farooq character. The most individual fame he gained in the WWE was as the guy who would randomly appear and say "DAMN!" at everything.
* [[WildSamoan Polynesian wrestlers]] often suffer this fate, regardless of their actual ability. The main exceptions are Yokozuna, The Rock (who's Polynesian on his mother's side) and TNA's Samoa Joe, who are/were among their respective promotions' top stars. Roman Reigns seems to be going down this road as well, as he is in the middle of a huge push as a member of The Shield, though time will tell if it lasts.
* It's very common among WWE mid-carders such as KofiKingston, CodyRhodes, WadeBarrett, TheMiz, ZackRyder, AntonioCesaro, RTruth, and DamienSandow have been frequently used as jobbers against such big names like JohnCena, CMPunk, RandyOrton, {{Sheamus}}, AlbertoDelRio, and {{Ryback}} due to the fact that it seems that the WWE Universe is only interested in seeing the big names and not the mid-card. Thus, the Intercontinental Championship and the United States Championship both have lost their prestige as of late.

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* Paul Wight (Wrestling/TheBigShow) achieved mega-stardom in his rookie year by not only winning the WCW championship, but by being the only wrestler in history to win Pro Wrestling Illustrated's (the Bible of Professional Wrestling) Rookie of the Year and Wrestler of the Year awards. Since then, he has rarely held any belt, and is usually either in squashes or jobs. He has jobbed to Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, Kevin Nash (good matches, actually) and much smaller wrestlers. Outside of his occasional main event runs, he's basically the WWE equivalent of a GiantMook. He is, however, the only wrestler to date to have held the WCW, WWE, ''and'' ECW titles in the course of his career.
* Wrestling/AndreTheGiant would often have 1 month contracts, and his first and only loss would occur at the next supercard.
* Wrestling/RonSimmons (with [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield Bradshaw]] as The Acolytes) never received a singles push in the WWE (although he did become the first black WCW World Champion), and would only see action backstage in promos, after the runaway success of Doom (with Butch Reed) and the failed push with the Farooq character. The most individual fame he gained in WWE was [[{{Flanderization}} as the guy who would randomly appear and say "DAMN!" at everything.]]
* [[WildSamoan Polynesian wrestlers]] often suffer this fate, regardless of their actual ability. The main exceptions are Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}, The Rock (who's Polynesian on his mother's side) and Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s Wrestling/SamoaJoe, who are/were among their respective promotions' top stars. Roman Reigns seems to be going down this road as well, as he is in the middle of a huge push as a member of Wrestling/TheShield, though time will tell if it lasts.
* It's very common among WWE mid-carders such as Wrestling/KofiKingston, Wrestling/CodyRhodes, Wrestling/WadeBarrett, Wrestling/TheMiz, Wrestling/ZackRyder, Wrestling/AntonioCesaro, [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]], and Wrestling/DamienSandow have been frequently used as jobbers against such big names like Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/CMPunk, Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio, and Wrestling/{{Ryback}} due to the fact that it seems that the WWE Universe is only interested in seeing the big names and not the mid-card. Thus, the Intercontinental Championship and the United States Championship both have lost their prestige as of late.

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* Lou Thesz jobbed to Rikidozan, a favor for which Rikidozan was eternally grateful.
* Probably the only thing Sean Waltman (123 Kid, X-Pac) is known for (other than injuries, XPacHeat and spending [[BrainBleach "One Night in]] {{Chyna}}") is that he broke through with a (Kayfabe) upset of Razor Ramon. He'd been all over WWF TV as "The X Kid" with X changing on a seemingly weekly basis, at which point BretHart taunted Ramon and christened Waltman the "1-2-3" kid to mock "The Bad Guy."
* In a PassingTheTorch moment, HulkHogan jobbed to the UltimateWarrior at Wrestlemania VI.
* Ivory jobbing to Trish Stratus in 2001. This is considered the moment Trish became a legitimate wrestler after spending her first year in the WWF as an eye-candy manager.
* Tag-team specialist Shelton Benjamin upsetting TripleH on a 2004 RAW established Benjamin as an upper-card superstar.
** And this was arguably the high point of Shelton's career (aside from being on the receiving end of one of ShawnMichaels' most memorable superkicks).
* ChrisJericho lost to rookie blue-chipper JohnCena in the summer of 2002 not once, but twice, including Cena's first ever match on PPV. While both were "fluke" wins (Cena won both by roll-up), it was enough to establish Cena as someone to keep an eye on on the Blue Brand. The rest is history.

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* Lou Thesz jobbed to Wrestling/{{Rikidozan}}, a favor for which Rikidozan was eternally grateful.
* Probably the only thing Sean Waltman (123 Kid, X-Pac) is known for (other than injuries, XPacHeat and spending [[BrainBleach "One Night in]] Wrestling/{{Chyna}}") is that he broke through with a (Kayfabe) upset of Razor Ramon. He'd been all over WWF TV as "The X Kid" with X changing on a seemingly weekly basis, at which point BretHart taunted Ramon and christened Waltman the "1-2-3" kid to mock "The Bad Guy."
* In a PassingTheTorch moment,Wrestling/HulkHogan jobbed to the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} VI''.
* Ivory jobbing to Wrestling/TrishStratus in 2001. This is considered the moment Trish became a legitimate wrestler after spending her first year in the WWF as an eye-candy manager. Of course, WWE would ''never'' think to ask Trish to return the favor to someone when she was on her way into retirement in 2006.
* Tag-team specialist [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Shelton Benjamin]] upsetting Triple H on a 2004 RAW established Benjamin as an upper-card superstar.
** And this was arguably the high point of Shelton's career (aside from being on the receiving end of one of Wrestling/ShawnMichaels' most memorable superkicks).
* Wrestling/ChrisJericho lost to rookie blue-chipper Wrestling/JohnCena in the summer of 2002 not once, but twice, including Cena's first ever match on PPV. While both were "fluke" wins (Cena won both by roll-up), it was enough to establish Cena as someone to keep an eye on on the Blue Brand. The rest is history.

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