Question from wrestling newbie. What is a jobber?

[Bobbi]

I should probably know, but not sure. Are they supposed to always lose?

 

[ireallyhateyou]

jobber is someone who is scheduled to lose every match
examples
Al Snow
Steve Lombardi
SD Jones
Victor Rivera
Jose Luis Rivera
and my personal fav
Mikey Whipwreck

 

[kane 316]

a person that lose lots of time

 

[Mayank S]

Yes a jobber is a guy who usually loses all the matches. He is often used in squash matches to push other stars.

Sometimes, jobbers were also made to mimic other superstars in a comic way, e.g., WWE created the Gillberg character who was a jobber - as a spoof of WCW's dominant star Goldberg. He tried to keep a similar French cut and bald head, dressed similarly although he was much thinner and smaller, and walked to the ring similar to Goldberg with security accompanying him backstage, and did some parodies after the pyrotechnics in his entrance.

Sometimes, credible superstars are also made to job at times (e.g., a recent match between Sheamus and Daniel Bryan in which Sheamus squashed him - it was berated by many superstars on Twitter and many wrestling websites). Although, those are one-off scenarios. Usually the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community) often uses the term job more commonly but don't fall into that trap (e.g., when Undertaker lost cleanly to Kane at their No Holds Barred match this year - some would say that Undertaker jobbed to Kane, but that is wrong and it does not make him a jobber by any means).

There have been cases where jobbers went through a gimmick change to suddenly become great and memorable superstars - e.g., Glen Jacobs (Kane) used to be a jobber as Isaac Yankem DDS earlier and later he was made the fake Diesel, which didn't work either; but suddenly he was repackaged as Kane and the rest is history.

 

[JDL]

Make you lose all the time constantly.

Like Zach Ryder he is one of the most talented wrestlers. But they make him look like a joke

 

[Katie Morgan]

Someone who loses consistently and quickly. Remember the match for the WWE title between Zach and Sheamus? Zach exemplified what it means to be a jobber in that match.

 

[The Rated R Rock Star]

Its someone who loses all the time to help push younger talent and maineventers.

 

[THE #1 PIRATE ®]

Basically I believe a Jobber is a person that wrestles young and inexperienced talent.
Usually a jobber deliberately loses a match.
A Jobber is also a main eventer that basically has stepped down the ladder

For Example

Sheamus vs Evan Bourne
Sheamus vs Santino
Chris Jericho vs John Morrison
Chris Jericho vs Evan Bourne

Well that is my definition of the term.

I will give you WIKIPEDIA definition

In professional wrestling slang, the term job describes a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect kayfabe.

The term can be used a number of ways. When a wrestler is booked, or scripted, to lose a match it is described as "a job." The act itself is described with the verb jobbing, while the act of booking (rather than being booked) to job is called jobbing out. To lose a match fairly (meaning without any kayfabe rules being broken) is to job cleanly. A loss through outside interference, cheating, or a reversed decision is called a screwjob. Wrestlers who routinely lose matches are known as jobbers.

Hope I helped with your question and have a nice day