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SRW 093 - WWE Enhancement Talent James Ellsworth

Notsam Wrestling

Sam Roberts

Notsam, Sam Roberts, Sports, Wwe, Wrestling

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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James Ellsworth tells his story of getting to be enhancement talent on the first post-2016 Draft Raw and bringing back the jobber, Katie Linendoll joins Sam for State of Wrestling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

We need some gentlemen. Welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast.

0:10.0

Introducing your host from New York. Here is Sam Roberts.

0:18.0

Welcome. It's Wrestling Podcast time again and welcome to it. It's Sam Roberts Wrestling

0:26.0

I would say one of the very few podcasts left hosted by Wrestling fan, not a wrestler, not a journalist, not a not a not a not a not a anything, not a writer, a wrestling fan, just a guy watches wrestling.

0:41.0

I'm Sam Roberts. This is the show and what a show we have. First of all, we'll make the big announcement this week.

0:47.0

Later on in the podcast, I will tell you how you can be a part of Sam Roberts show live. We're doing the podcast, we're doing the series XM show.

0:56.0

It's all one thing and we are doing it live this summer slam weekend from New York. I will give you the details on that later on this week on the show.

1:08.0

I will give you a state of wrestling and analyze everything that is going on right now in the pro wrestling landscape probably be WWE heavy as that is kind of where lots happening right now and and a whole lot more.

1:23.0

But first let's get to the interview, huh? A lot happened over the last week or two in the world of wrestling and a lot of people have made a very big impact.

1:33.0

There's lots of rumors about people returning. There's lots of stories that people are returning. We'll talk about all that in the state of wrestling.

1:40.0

But maybe nobody made a bigger impact than James Ellsworth. Yes, the return of enhancement talent. It happened during the first raw of the post draft WWE James Ellsworth went one on one with Braun Strowman.

2:01.0

I know I'm not the only one who felt like raw was lacking because it didn't have a James Ellsworth appearance.

2:10.0

You know, I like the guy that Braun Strowman wrestled this week when he said that he was getting paid $1,000 to do it and he would get five grand if he won.

2:19.0

It's good money and that answers some of the questions we have about James Ellsworth. He's just not, he's not James. Only James can do it James Ellsworth did.

2:29.0

And I thought to myself, South, prime time Sam Roberts, the last professional broadcaster, I need to learn more about this James Ellsworth fellow.

2:40.0

And so that's exactly what I decided to do. My guest this week on Sam Roberts wrestling podcast, the man who single handed Lee has brought back WWE enhancement talent, the jobber for the new millennium as a matter of fact, ladies and gentlemen, this is James Ellsworth.

3:00.0

And now the Sam Roberts wrestling podcast interview.

3:07.0

And we're now joined on the phone by the man the myth, the legend, a man has become a legend in a pretty short amount of time. James Ellsworth, James what's going on man? What's the haps?

3:18.0

Hey guys, I wouldn't consider myself a legend if I do appreciate the compliment.

3:25.0

Well, how did first of all, I want to get out of the way. What do we, what do we like to be? What words do we like to, because obviously we're probably around the same age, right?

3:35.0

We grew up watching wrestling the same way. Is jobber a term of endearmate is enhancement talent better? Which, where do we go with that?

3:46.0

I mean, neither word bothers me. I mean, I, you know, whatever it's called, I don't mind at all what was their jobber enhanced talent extra talent.

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