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🗓️ 11 February 2025
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From zero to hero! These WWE "local competitors" became household names. Simon Miller presents 10 WWE Jobbers Who Became World Champion...
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0:00.0 | I do not like the term jobber. Sadly, it has done the round, so we all know what it means. |
0:05.0 | Enhancement talent is better. It takes everybody to make a wrestling show work. |
0:10.0 | Some people feel like getting put in such a position is the end of their career though. |
0:14.0 | But no. In fact, it can turn out this is for the best. |
0:17.0 | When you smash through the ceiling, you have a lovely story to tell. |
0:26.1 | And who was able to make this leap from zero to hero? Well, I am Simon Miller, and here are the facts. Number 10 EC3. Wind your clocks back to this one before Ethan Carter III had chosen |
0:32.4 | such a name. He was in NXT. He was called Derek Bateman. Actually sounds like somebody from The Simpsons. |
0:39.7 | This wasn't the NXT we know and love today as it was still filing its feet. But yes, |
0:43.6 | from 2009 to 2013, this is where the future EC3 plied his craft. There wasn't really too |
0:49.8 | much to this Bateman character either, and mostly it felt like he was there to put others over. |
0:54.6 | Like many, he was then let go, but really, that was for the best. |
0:57.8 | He soon arrived in TNA, where he took on the character of Dixie Carter's nephew, |
1:03.2 | and yes, that's where the name came from. |
1:05.0 | It was an astute decision, as in June 2015, he won the TNA World title, and he had a |
1:09.9 | 101-day rain. |
1:11.6 | He stayed at the top of the card too, so look at that. |
1:14.4 | EC did prove everybody wrong if you did indeed doubt him. |
1:18.3 | If you didn't, you totally smashed it. |
1:19.9 | Well done, Gold Star. |
1:21.2 | His second round in WWE seemed like he was going to benefit from this tool, and it kind of did |
1:25.7 | an NXT. |
1:26.6 | Then he got caught up to the main roster, and it kind of did an NXT, then he got caught up to the main |
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