James Ellsworth squirmed under the spotlight while he awaited his opponent. His eyes darted around the ring. His hands slid up to a defensive position.
The skinny, pale Ellsworth stood a foot shorter than Braun Strowman, the man assigned to beat him into the mat that July night on WWE Raw. As Strowman stared at his foe, he looked like a grizzly bear eyeing a rodent foolish enough to stand in its path.
It was Ellsworth's job to showcase this bearded, massive monster. He was to take a pounding in order to highlight Strowman's destructive power.
That's the duty of a jobber, a low-level wrestler scripted to lose time and time a...
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