This was the roster at the time that The JWL shut down in January 2014.
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FACES
Balls Mahoney (Jonathan Rechner)
- Finishing Move: Nutcracker Suite
- Garbage Wrestler: Made his name in wild brawls in ECW
- Joisey: Billed from Nutley, NJ, which is a real city.
- Power Stable: The Hardcore Alliance (defunct)
- Red Baron: "The Hardcore Chair-Swinging Freak"
Masato Tanaka
- Finishing Move: Rolling Elbow, Tornado DDT, Sliding D
- Power Stable: The Hardcore Alliance (defunct)
- Red Baron: Dangan (Japanese for "Bullet")
2 Cold Scorpio (Charles Scaggs)
- Finishing Move: 450 Splash
- Power Stable: The Hardcore Alliance (defunct)
The Faces of Fear
Meng (Tonga Uliuli Fifita)
- Afro Asskicker: Famous for his huge hair
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: the Faces of Fear were the first-ever JWL World Tag Team Champions
- Finishing Move: The Tongan Death Grip
- I Know Sumo
- Power Stable: The Dungeon of Doom (defunct)
- Tonga: His home country, and his own real first name.
- Wild Tongan
The Barbarian (Sionne Vailahi)
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: the Faces of Fear were the first-ever JWL World Tag Team Champions
- Finishing Move: The Kick of Fear, diving headbutt, piledriver
- Power Stable: The Dungeon of Doom (defunct)
- Wild Tongan
Jimmy Hart
- No Indoor Voice: High-pitched and loud.
- Power Stable: The Dungeon of Doom (defunct)
- Red Baron: "The Mouth of the South"
- Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy: Always carries a megaphone around.
Crowbar (Christopher "Chris" Ford
- Finishing Move: The Mindbender
- Power Stable: The Misfits (defunct)
Daffney Unger (Shannon Claire Spruill)
- Dented Iron: Due to her injuries, she is retired from competition and will be working as a manager.
Al Snow (Allen Ray Sarven)
- Companion Cube: Mannequin Head
- Finishing Move: Snow Plow
- Power Stable: The Shooters (defunct)
- Ring Oldies: started in the early 1980s
The Blue Meanie (Brian Heffron)
- Acrofatic: a 300 lbs. fat guy doing a moonsault.
- Finishing Move: The Meaniesault
- Parts Unknown: "Pepperland
The Undertaker (Mark Callaway)
- Arch-Enemy: Rhino, Daivari International
- Badass Biker: Before he went back to the Phenom gimmick.
- Finishing Move: Tombstone, the Last Ride
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He and Rhino were this, for each other.
- Power Stable: American Badass Inc. (defunct)
Jacqueline (Jacqueline DeLois Moore)
- Action Girl
- Everything is Big in Texas: From Dallas
- Finishing Move: Tornado DDT
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Invoked. On Episode 24, she called out Chyna to accept her challenge for a match at JWL WrestleMania I. When Chyna said that she had nothing to gain from the match, Jackie threatened to tell everyone that she, Chyna, was a coward and that she, Chyna, didn't have the guts to face her. Jackie then raised the stakes, challenging Chyna to a Loser-Leaves-The-JWL match. Chyna admitted that it would feel good to send Jackie out of The JWL and accepted the challenge.
- Ms. Fanservice: Looks hot and could kick your ass.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She slammed Thug and CHYNA.
- Power Stable: American Badass Inc. (defunct)
The All-Stars (Barry Horowitz and the Brooklyn Brawler [Steve Lombardi])
- Badass Israeli: Horowitz
- Finishing Move: (Horowitz) Winnerplex, the Winning Move, Horowitz Cradle; (Brawler): Cannonball Splash
The Dangerous Alliance
Paul E. Dangerously (Paul Heyman)
- Arch-Enemy: Dusty's Dream Team
The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas)
- Distracted by the Sexy: Shelton, courtesy of Aksana, on Episode 68.
- Finishing Move: Shelton: Paydirt, T-Bone Suplex; Haas: Haas of Pain
911 (Al Poling)
- The Big Guy: Oldest active wrestler in the D.A. Also, ever since the World's Greatest Tag Team-Nasty Boys match on Episode 64, part of his role before the D.A.'s matches has been to check under the mat and around ringside to find anyone who might interfere.
- Emergency Services: That's how he got his name, the idea being that you'd have to call them to help his opponents after his matches.
- Finishing Move: Chokeslam
Bobby Lashley (Franklin Roberto Lashley)
- Finishing Move: The Dominator
- Red Baron: "The Real Deal"
Samoa Joe (Joel Seanoa)
- Finishing Move: The Kokina Clutch
- Red Baron: "The Samoan Submission Machine"
The Boogeyman (Martin "Marty" Wright)
- Finishing Move: Goodnight (Pumphandle Powerslam)
- Ominous Fog: Orange smoke followed him around.
- Parts Unknown: "The Bottomless Pit"
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: His whole gimmick.
- Trademark Favorite Food: He eats worms.
Victoria (Lisa Marie Varon)
- Action Girl
- Chairwoman of the Brawl: She debuted this way, hitting Trish with a chair on Episode 54.
- Finishing Move: The Widow's Peak
The Dalton Brothers (Jesse and Festus [Terry Ray Gordy Jr. and Drew Hankinson])
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Festus
- Finishing Move: Biscuits and Gravy (Flapjack by Festus followed by a top rope somersault senton by Jesse)
- Gentle Giant: Festus
The Hart Dynasty (DH Smith, Tyson Kidd and Natalya Neidhart)
- Action Girl: Natalya
- Finishing Move: Top-Rope Hart Attack (bearhug w/top rope clothesline), Sharpshooter, Running Powerslam
- Wrestling Family: DH is the son of Davey Boy Smith and Natalya is the daughter of Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, making them a nephew and niece of Bret Hart. Tyson and Natalya are married.
Matt Morgan formerly the Burmese Python
- The Giant: 7 feet tall and over 300 lbs.
- No Indoor Voice
- That Man Is Dead: Averted on Episode 79 when he unmasked
HEELS
Kane
- Finishing Move: Tombstone
- NO INDOOR VOICE: All of his dialogue is written in red and in all caps.
- Parts Unknown: He's billed from there.
- Power Stable: The Franchise Foundation (defunct)
- Wrestling Monster: Self-described on Episode 12.
The Royals
Jerry "The King" Lawler
The Rock
- Finishing Move: The Rock Bottom, the Royal Elbow
- Jerkass: Insults other wrestlers, audiences and even whole cities.
- Talk Show with Fists: "The SmackDown Hotel"
Christian
- Finishing Move: The Unprettier
- Malicious Misnaming: On Episode 37, he referred to Mikey Whipwreck as "Mikey Shipwreck".
- Red Baron: "Captain Charisma"
Randy Orton
- Finishing Move: RKO
- Jerkass
- Red Baron: "The Legend-Killer"
- Tag Team: The Royal Assassins, with Dave Batista
Dave Batista
- Finishing Move: Batista Bomb
- Red Baron: "The Animal"
- Tag Team: The Royal Assassins, with Randy Orton
Raven
- Finishing Move: The Raven Effect (DDT)
- Power Stable: Raven's Nest (defunct)
The Dudley Boys
- Parts Unknown: "Dudleyville"
- Power Stable: Raven's Nest (expelled/defunct)
Dusty's Dream Team
Dusty Rhodes
- Ring Oldies: Started in the early 1970s.
- The Unintelligible: His promos and commentary have long featured mangled words and/or words he invented. Or, even when he is using real words and real sentences, he tends to make little to no sense.
The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Bryan Knobbs)
- Finishing Move: Pitstop Elbow (powerslam/top rope elbow drop)
- Garbage Wrestler: They are at their best in big brawls.
- No Indoor Voice: Knobbs
- Parts Unknown: "Nastyville"
- Tag Team
- Translator Buddy: Knobbs, for Dusty Rhodes
The One Man Gang
- Beard of Evil
- Finishing Move: Big Splash
- Ring Oldies: Started in the late 1970s.
Cody Rhodes
- Even Bad Men Love Their Papas: He did not approve of Samoa Joe calling him "the son of a moron" on Episode 73.
- Tag Team: with Ted DiBiase Jr.
- Wrestling Family: Son of Dusty Rhodes, brother of Dustin/Goldust.
Ted DiBiase Jr.
- Generation Xerox: billed as the "Million Dollar Champion"
- Wrestling Family: His father is "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase
The A-List
Johnny Nitro
- Finishing Move: Moonlight Drive, Starship Pain
- It's Fake Fur, It's Fine: Enforced.
- Los Angeles: A snob about it. On Episode 63, which was held there, he mentioned how he wished the A-List Couple could have debuted there instead of "whatever Flyover Country city" they were in when they debuted.note
- Understanding Boyfriend: See below.
Melina Perez
- Action Girl: An excellent woman wrestler.
- Finishing Move: Extreme Makeover, California Dreams
- Green-Eyed Monster: As seen on Episode 74.
- It's Fake Fur, It's Fine: Enforced.
- Los Angeles: A snob about it, like Johnny.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her ring entrance involved doing a split on the apron and giving the audience a look up her skirt.
Daivari International
Khosrow Daivari (Shawn Daivari)
- Expy: of "The Million-Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. Crossed with Adaptational Wealth, since his being portrayed this way is completely different from his character in WWE.
- Fiction 500: An international millionaire
- Rich Bastard
- Wrestling Doesn't Pay: Inverted, as he took the money he made from wrestling and invested it all over the world
Trevor Murdoch
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: The Redneck Wrecking Crew defeating JWL World Tag team Champions the Faces of Fear for the titles at JWL Vengeance I
- Cowboy
- Everything is Big in Texas
- Finishing Move: The Ace of Spades
- Tag Team: The Redneck Wrecking Crew, with Lance Cade
Vladimir Kozlov
- Finishing Move: The Iron Curtain
- Foreign Wrestling Heel: Billed from Russia.
- I Know Sambo
- Only in It for the Money: Rubbed his fingers together to symbolize money when Daivari introduced him as his newest acquisition during their appearance on the Rock's Talk Show with Fists "The Smackdown Hotel" on Episode 68.
- Red Baron: "The Moscow Mauler"
Aksana
- Action Girl
- Behind Every Great Man: Mentioned by name by Daivari when he introduced her as part of Daivari International's appearance on "The SmackDown Hotel" on Episode 68.
- Foreign Wrestling Heel
- Ms. Fanservice
- Red Baron: "The Lithuanian Sensation" (JWL only)
- Slut-Shaming: Actually got a bit of this from the crowd during her match with Melina on Episode 77, with the announcers acknowledging it and insisting that neither they themselves nor the JWL in general endorsed it.
- Spy Catsuit
- The Vamp: for Vladimir Kozlov
Amber O'Neal
The Prime Time Players
The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neill)
- Catchphrase: "Millions of Dollars! Millions of Dollars! Millions of Dollars!"
- Finishing Move: Off the Air (backbreaker/top rope legdrop combination)
"Program Director" Byron Saxton
- Badass in a Nice Suit
- Catchphrase: "Until next time, this is Byron Saxton, Program Director, signing off. Good night."
Damien Sandow
- Beard of Evil
- Finishing Move: Terminus
- Gratuitous Latin: His elbow drop, the Cubito Fastidia (Elbow of Disdain)
- Real Men Wear Pink
- Red Baron: "The Intellectual Savior of the Unwashed Masses"
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
CRUISERWEIGHTS
Rey Misterio Jr.
- Finishing Move: West Coast Pop
- Masked Luchador
Psicosis (Dioniso Castellanos)
- Finishing Move: Guillotine Legdrop
- Masked Luchador
Super Crazy (Francisco Islas Ruedas)
- Finishing Move: Triple Rope Moonsault
- Non-Masked Luchador
The Hurricane (Gregory Helms)
- Cool Bike: "The Hurri-Cycle"
- Cool Mask
- Finishing Move: Eye of the Hurricane
- Parts Unknown: "The Hall of Justice" (JWL only)
- Power Stable: Team Xtreme (defunct)
- Superhero
Shannon Moore
- Finishing Move: The Halo
- Power Stable: Team Xtreme (defunct)
- Punk
- Red Baron: "The Anarchist" (JWL only)
Kaientai Deluxe (TAKA Michinoku and Shoichi Funaki)
- Catchphrase: "We are EVIL!" "INDEED!"
- Finishing Move: (TAKA) Michinoku Driver #2; (Funaki) The Rising Sun
- Foreign Wrestling Heel
Chavo Guerrero Jr.
- Badass Family/Wrestling Family
- Finishing Move: Tornado DDT, Frogsplash
- Red Baron: "The Mexican Warrior"
Yoshihiro Tajiri
- Finishing Move: Buzzsaw Kick
- Kick Dude
- Power Stable: The Hardcore Alliance (defunct)
- Red Baron: "The Japanese Buzzsaw"
Little Guido Maritato
- Finishing Move: The Sicilian Crab
- Power Stable: The Shooters (defunct)
- Red Baron: "The Sicilian Shooter
Other Characters
Announcers/Commentators
Jim Ross
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Replaced as lead announcer after his last health issue
Mike Tenay
- Red Baron: "The Professor"
Scott Hudson
Interviewers/Reporters
Joey Styles
Kevin Kelly (Kevin Foote)
Mick Foley
- Cheap Pop
- Reasonable Authority Figure: JWL Commissioner
- Tonight in This Very Ring: Announcing the Kane vs. Batista main event on Episode 74.
