Lance Cade - Raw spoiler

well, it looks like he is just gonna be a long term replacement for Umaga

I hope Cade and Jericho form an alliance from it.
Instantly reminded me of HBK and Diesel back in the day.
Smaller guy with an enforcer bodyguard.
WOuld bring on Cade loads to work with Y2J too.

Dark Match jobber is pretty strong dont you think Grecian, unless we call everyone who loses a jobber now, I only class a jobber as someone who constantly loses and gets little or no offence, Cade was in a match with a guy many believe to be the best wrestler in America, who knows whats going on behind the scenes with Danielson, he maybe in signing talks with the WWE, I know from listening to what JR said he would love to see him in the WWE so who knows, also as they have both been trained with Shawn Michaels there may have been some kind of friendship there or it could simply have been Shawn himself asking Cade to do him a favour, and for doing that favour he may have been rewarded (allowed to take out Triple H)

Dark matches are just that, they have nothing what so ever to do with TV, the story starts and ends with what is shown on TV, thats why Triple H was off a full RAW, not even an appearance to sell an injury yet as soon as the tape stops rolling he comes out for a fark match main event, same with the rest!

It gives guys who need a run out a chance to shake off the ring rust and it allows WWE officials the chance to see first hand what a guy can do in the ring against a good competitor

Maybe 'dark match jobber' is a strong term, but I stand by it. Danielson may be the best wrestler in the US at the moment, but currently, he is not signed to a WWE contract, and for him to get to make Cade tap-out is a clean win, whichever way you look at it. Danielson appearing on that Raw, even in a dark match, was the biggest story to come out of that Raw, and has been reported the world over. If WWE had plans for Cade, why let a guy who they haven't even signed to beat him? Why not let Danielson beat Trevor Murdock, Brian Kendrick, Paul London... there are plenty of other guys on the Raw roster who could have done it!

Most of the time I've watched Cade on Heat, he's lost in singles competition, he's hasn't appeared on PPV in a while, not even in the Rumble which has 30 other guys, including renowned big names like Tommy Dreamer, Jamie Noble, even Hornswoggle. In fact, after checking on Wikipedia, his last PPV match was at Vengeance 2007 - almost an entire calender year ago...

To put it into perspective, if Funaki did a run-in and laid out Edge and Batista, would you be happy with that?

My whole argument is that the whole angle is incredibly rushed, and while I know that WWE needs new headliners, they are going about it the wrong way. Other posters are saying that 'it's about time they pushed him', or 'I saw something in him..', 'He's a solid worker...' I'm just saying that I have never seen anything in Cade to even think he's a potential IC champ, let alone someone to be pushed up the card.

Incidentally, I see a 'jobber' as someone who loses cleanly and consistently.

To date, he's had a short feud with the Hardys, and split from Murdock, and those are his 2 biggest programmes - a feud with a tag team who hardly (no pun intended) team together any more, and splitting from his 'comedy' partner (albeit 1 with magnificent sideburns). Nothing there to even make me think WWE have had any idea what to do with him previously. I can't remember his run as Garrison Cade, as 'memorable' as it was, and nor can I remember any breath-taking

Like I said in a previous post, if this is a jump strait to main/semi main event, then we will soon be hearing "shoving him down our throats" blah blah blah.

I guarantee it.

I think they tested Cades attitude in prep for his push with the defeat to Danielson.

Had he have argued it or questioned the finish, thats it-Push over before it's started.

Its not the dark match that's the problem for me, I actually agree that they don't matter, no its everything(or nothing to be more precise) that he has done on tv just doesn't lead me to believe "its about time".