5 Jobbers that went on to become WWE Champion

In professional wrestling, jobbers or enhancement talents are smaller wrestlers who are hired to lose against top superstars to make the top superstars look stronger. Jobbers have to sell all the top wrestlers moves, while the top wrestler can choose to no-sell the jobber's moves. They perform for one night only and get paid to lose. Many WWE superstars started out as jobbers, some in the WWE and some in other wrestling promotions around the world.

Some superstars in WWE have been jobbers their whole career and never got a chance to lift any gold. Some indie wrestlers hired themselves as jobbers to WWE for more money and to fulfill their dreams by performing in the biggest wrestling company in the whole world.

Jobbers are smaller in size than the wrestler they're jobbing to. They don't perform most of their moves either, because they're too busy receiving their opponent's moves. Many great WWE veterans have had jobbers lose to them and at the end of the day its just business as usual.

Not many jobbers ever expected to win the biggest prize in this industry. For some, it was just a dream and for others, it was a dream come true. These 5 WWE superstars started out as jobbers, either in or out of WWE and then went on to become WWE Champion. They must have done something right, or their characters spoke for themselves.

Here are 5 wrestlers that started out as jobbers and then went on to win the WWE Championship.

#5 Triple H

Triple H is a 14 time WWE Champion and has been in the WWE for over two decades. He has headlined WrestleMania multiple times and plays WWE's COO on TV. He is married to Vince McMahon's daughter Stephanie and was a key component of the Attitude Era.

Things didn't start off this good for The Game when he started out as a jobber in WCW under the ring name Terra Ryzing in early 1994, and later Jean-Paul Levesque in mid-1994. He teamed up with Lord Steven Regal who's snobby British persona was similar to his.

They lost most of their matches and they didn't even get along until Triple H left WCW after his request to be pushed as a singles competitor was turned down. In WWF he debuted as the Connecticut Blueblood Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

Things changed for him when he joined the Kliq and DX. He deafeted Mankind on Raw in 1999 to capture his first WWE Championship and in 2016 he became a 14 time world champion by winning the Royal Rumble. Today he puts young superstars over and founded NXT.

#4 Edge

WWE Hall of Famer Edge made his debut in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Damon Striker. He was in the receiving end of several sqaush matches and lost to several WCW superstars such as Meng and Kevin Sullivan.

He finally got his calling when he was noticed by WWE and signed with the company under his current ring name Edge. He teamed up with Christian and together they won the WWE tag team championship multiple times.

Edge went on to recieve a big push as a singles competitor and won the WWE Championship four times and the World Heavyweight Championship seven times. He went from a jobber in WCW to a main eventer in WWE.

#3 Jinder Mahal

Jinder Mahal shocked the world when he won the WWE Championship by defeating Randy Orton at Backlash in 2017. Mahal first worked in WWE as the Great Khali's storyline brother in law and manager before stepping into the ring as a wrestler.

He frequently lost to WWE superstars in squash matches and was a member of the comedy faction 3MB along with Heath Slater and Drew McIntyre and they continued losing to other superstars.

Unfortunately for Mahal, he was released in 2014 but returned to the company in 2016 and aligned himself with Rusev. He was moved to Smackdown following the Superstar Shake-Up and became number contender for the WWE Championship and went on to defeat Randy Orton at Backlash.

Mahal went on to main event Smackdown's branded PPVs until he lost the title to AJ Styles on an episode of Smackdown in November. WWE executives, especially Triple H are fond of Mahal and its only left to see what he will accomplish next.

#2 Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy worked in WWE as an enhancement talent when he was just a teenager. He made his televised debut in the company against Razor Ramon where he lost in a squash match. He continued to lose against other wrestlers.

He lost to superstars such as Sean Waltman, King Kong Bundy and Rob Van Dam until he signed with the company. He went on to form a tag team with his brother Matt Hardy where they became a 6 time world tag team champions.

He went on to compete as a singles competitor where he won the WWE Championship once and the World Heavyweight Championship twice. He also joined TNA where he won the TNA Heavyweight Championship.

#1 AJ Styles

Current WWE Champion AJ Styles is one of the greatest wrestlers in the world today. He is a phenomenal athlete and has accomplished so much in his career outside of WWE. He has won multiple world championships around the world such as the TNA Heavyweight Championship, IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and WWE Championship.

Styles wrestled for WCW back in 2001. He was placed in a tag team known as Air Raid with another wrestler. The duo competed in WCW's Thunder where they briefly lost to other tag teams. They won their first and only match on Thunder before moving to Nitro.

They made their Nitro debut by competing in a tournament for the cruiserweight tag team championship but lost in the first round. When WCW was purchased by Vince McMahon, Styles made two appearances in WWE as a jobber where he lost his two dark matches.

Styles made his official debut at the Royal Rumble in 2016 and went on to the main event that year's Payback and Extreme Rules PPV. He is the current WWE Champion and is scheduled to defend his WWE Championship against Samoa Joe at SummerSlam

Edited by Moderator -PJ