Mike Jackson

[7.0] "If your first glimpse of Mike Jackson was his surreal, ageless run on Impact Wrestling, you've only seen the coda of a career that spans half a century. Long before he became a viral sensation for outworking men a third his age, Jackson was a fixture of the territorial era--a reliable, athletic, technically crisp worker who shared rings with the very best to ever do it. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Jackson tangled with a who's who of future hall of famers. He went hold-for-hold with Bob Backlund, fed the fire of Jake Roberts' rising menace, matched speed with Magnum TA, and bumped with trademark precision for Ric Flair at the height of the Nature Boy's reign. He was the kind of wrestler every territory needed: professional, clean, credible, and able to make stars look like stars while still looking like he belonged in the ring with them. And unlike so many of his peers, Jackson never faded away. He just kept going; match after match, decade after decade. His passion for wrestling never dimmed, and his conditioning remained freakishly good. Which is why, well into his seventies, he still appears on indie shows across the South, blowing minds with rope-walks, crisp dropkicks, and cardio that embarrasses wrestlers young enough to be his grandchildren. Mike Jackson is living proof that "enhancement talent" doesn't mean "forgettable, " and that longevity is its own badge of honour. His body of work, his consistency, and his sheer love for the craft have etched him a place in wrestling history that most fans are only now beginning to appreciate. Age may be a number, but in Mike Jackson's case, it's also a punchline he's been defying for decades."

"I can't believe that he is over 70 years old and I had never heard of him before GCW. I am a Mike Jackson mark for sure. If his work now is great, I can only imagine how good he was back in the days."

[5.0] "First introduced to me by Swinger in Impact. Went back and found some of his earlier work. Honestly more impressed by him in Impact as he seemed more like a basic jobber. Respect his longevity for being able to wrestle on national TV in his 70s."

[7.0] "My criteria is "how watchable are they? ". When you do jobs for E V E R Y O N E in the South EVER, over the last how many decades now? You're actually rating southern 'rasslin as a whole, warts n all. Seven point two five rounded down. ps: He looked like a high school biology teacher and wore the same singlet my whole lifetime (probably)."

[7.0] "Guy has been consistently jobbing since the 1970s, anyone who became a somebody in the world of wrestling has worked with this man, a true veteran of the sport."

[4.0] "A good jobber who still can do his job even at the age of seventy. He should be respected for his hard work and loyality to wrestling"

[5.0] "Definitely not a 10 but a good jobber nonetheless who always got his little bit of offence in and made the bigger star look good, still an achievement that he was wrestling into his older years"

[3.0] "I disagree with 10. He is not that good. Even though he works hard and still wrestles close to 70 is impressive. His in style is boring and just useless. The most notable peak of his career was in CWF in Florida and jobbing in WCW. He is one of the pioneers of Crusierweight wrestlers but he does not do much high flying. He has been the Junior heavyweight champion in Alabama and Georgia. If this guy can wrestle over 70 that would be great. This man has faced Ric Flair, Bob Backlund, Jake Roberts and Eddie Gilbert. He is a legend in Georgia."

[10.0] "OK I know what you're thinking, a 10 for Mike Jackson? Let me explain. The role of a jobber back when Mike was wrestling was to make the stars look good on weekly television. Mike could do that better than anyone. He had the ability to put in a top flight match every week on t. v. taking the bumps to make the stars look top flight all while getting in enough offense to make ya think he just might have a chance. Heck if Ric Flair always wanted you to wrestle him on television 'cause you made him look like a million bucks every match and those throw away t. v. matches looked like they could of been in packed arenas, well to pull that off you get a 10 any day in my book."