10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About The J.O.B. Squad Stable

Pro wrestling can’t always be Heads of the Table, Nature Boys, or Faces That Run the Place. The sport also needs loveable losers — wrestlers who fans know in their heads aren’t going to win, but root for them anyway with their hearts. One such group of chumps was the J.O.B. Squad — standing for “Just Over Broke” — who amused fans during their brief time together during WWE’s Attitude Era.

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Composed of Al Snow, Bob Holly, Scorpio, and later the Blue Meanie and Duane Gill, the J.O.B. Squad was a group of jobbers working together to improve their status in the WWE hierarchy. They were a fun group while they lasted, so let’s take a look at the group’s history and what fans should know about them.

10 Stemmed from Al Snow’s Real-Life Frustrations

While the J.O.B. Squad would debut in 1998, the concept was actually developed a couple of years earlier. By 1996, Al Snow had seen the formation of locker room cliques like the Bone Street Krew as well as the power-wielding Kliq, and felt a growing frustration with some of the bigger egos backstage who acted like they were legitimately winning wrestling matches. In Snow’s opinion, jobbers actually had a lot of power over the top stars, considering that one could kill a star’s credibility by simply choosing not to sell their moves.

9 Also Inspired By WWE’s Gang Wars Storyline

At the time of Al Snow’s conception of the J.O.B. Squad, WWE was kicking off its infamous Gang Wars storyline, which had several rival factions feuding with one another. Inspired by that angle, Snow was joking with manager Jim Cornette backstage that he’d like to start his own faction made entirely of jobbers including Aldo Montoya and Barry Horowitz. When Cornette asked what the group would be called, Snow noticed that the tag team Legion of Doom (a.k.a. L.O.D.) was nearby, so he played off their abbreviation to come up with J.O.B. Squad.

8 Introduced As A T-Shirt In ECW

Shortly after that, in 1997 Al Snow was sent over to Extreme Championship Wrestling, which had a partnership with WWE. There, he famously developed the “Head” gimmick that would make him a fan favorite, but he was also encouraged by the locker room to make a T-shirt out of his J.O.B. Squad idea.

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He decided that the shirt would be the opposite of WCW’s New World Order tee, an uncool white shirt with black text, and began selling them online. It turned out to not only be popular with “the boys,” but also fans, who bought the shirt in droves.

7 Introduced In WWE By Road Dogg (Kinda)

Fans going back and watching Attitude Era episodes of Raw may be surprised when they get to the 3/30/1998 episode of the show, which aired post-WrestleMania 14 and featured the New Age Outlaws officially joining the D-Generation X stable. In the episode, Road Dogg wears a J.O.B. Squad T-shirt, which may prove baffling to fans unaware of the ECW element given that the group didn’t form in WWE until about eight months later. However, the choice to wear the shirt got even more eyes on Snow’s efforts, which resulted in even more T-shirt sales.

6 Also Inspired By Get Smart

In WWE, the J.O.B. Squad officially formed on the 11/8/1998 episode of Sunday Night Heat, with Al Snow cutting a promo about how the J.O.B. Squad was a secret group in WWE combating the evil rival group P.U.S.H., “because none of us are getting one.” While there’s actually no P.U.S.H. to speak of, this somewhat underrated aspect of the group’s gimmick was inspired by the 1960s Mel Brooks comedy series Get Smart, which followed the spy agency CONTROL, which opposed the villainous KAOS.

5 Duane Gill Was The First Addition To The Group

The initial lineup of J.O.B. Squad was Al Snow, Bob Holly (before he was Hardcore), and Scorpio, but the group soon expanded to bring in career WWE jobber Duane Gill. While Snow and Holly would go on to become decorated performers and Scorpio was already accomplished before coming to WWE, Gill was arguably the most successful member during their shared time in the group. In November 1998, he’d score an upset win over Christian to capture the Light Heavyweight Championship, after which he’d adopt his famous Goldberg parody gimmick Gillberg, and his ensuing 448-day reign would make him the longest reigning champion to hold the belt.

4 Had One Ridiculously Successful Night

That Duane Gill win over Christian happened on the 11/22/1998 episode of Raw, which would go down as the greatest night in the J.O.B. Squad’s short history. On that same episode, the Squad would help Mankind win a triple threat against Corporation member Big Boss Man and Ken Shamrock, setting up even more shenanigans later in the show.

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Later that night, Bob Holly and Scorpio would team up against the New Age Outlaws in a match full of interference from not only Mankind, but also Shamrock, Boss Man, and the rest of the J.O.B. Squad. However, the Squad would prevail, scoring a win over Road Dogg and Billy Gunn.

3 Scorpio Was The First To Be Released

Before WWE, 2 Cold Scorpio was an innovative high flyer, but in WWE was repackaged as “Flash Funk” before quickly becoming an afterthought. His stint in the J.O.B. Squad gave his character a new sense of purpose, but it wouldn’t last long as personal issues would lead to his dismissal from WWE. This would be the beginning of the end for the J.O.B. Squad, as Gillberg disappeared from television and Blue Meanie moved on to an angle with Goldust.

2 Al Snow And Hardcore Holly Feuded To Break Up The Group For Good

The final nail in the coffin of the J.O.B. Squad would happen on the 2/13/199 episode of Raw, wherein Al Snow had a hardcore match against himself. Bob Holly came out to intervene in Snow’s weird public bout of self-harm, but it only served to kick off a feud between the two to break up the group. Their big match would happen the next night at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House, a violent affair with Holly adopting his best known moniker, Hardcore Holly, and defeating Snow for the WWE Hardcore Championship.

1 Reunited On The Indies

It’s not uncommon on the indie wrestling scene for former teammates to enjoy the occasional one-off reunions, and the J.O.B. Squad was no exception. In early 2006, Al Snow and the Blue Meanie reunited in the UK based One Pro Wrestling (sometimes called 1 Pro Wrestling), wrestling four matches between January and May. Three of those matches would be against Tracy Smothers and Chris Hamrick, while the final one would be a three-way against Ring of Honor’s Generation Next (Roderick Strong and Austin Aries) and Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Takeshi Morishima and Mohammed Yone, with the J.O.B. Squad getting one last win together.