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this Entry Vortexvoid here, first blog post.  When I was a kid,
I used to watch WCW all the time, with Tony Schiavone
commentating. OK, the guy isn't on everyone's Christmas card
list, but one thing he always did was try to make jobbers and
low-carders look like a credible threat. The point of this
wasn't to get them over, but rather to validate the inevitable
victory of the mid/top carder who was squashing them, thereby
enhancing the victor. So, for example, Rick Rude would face off
against some "currently in the ring" guy like Frankie Lancaster.
Whilst Rude was kicking the crap out of Frankie, Schiavone would
be saying things like "Frankie Lancaster, he's no slouch, he's
had a lot of success in this sport" etc etc. Ditto when it was a
face like Bagwell beating on some jobber like Bob Cook or Nasty
Ned; Tony would be gamely saying stuff like "yeah, Nasty Ned,
he's got a real mean streak and a vicious left hook, Bagwell
needs to be on his game tod