[40], In 2019 during The Road to All Out, Roberts appeared as a dealer at a blackjack table dealing cards to Women's Casino Battle Royale participants, referring to his infamous "you wanna play 21?" Allegedly, the python playing Damien at the time (there were several) didn't eat for months, as Roberts had kept him in a tank and left him there. If you've never seen the film, it follows Jake through an independent wrestling event "I like his snakes, I like his style!" and a failed attempt to reconnect with his daughter, and speaks. On the same video, Roberts also stated that he was conceived when his father, who was dating Roberts' grandmother, raped her 13-year-old daughter (this was also stated in the documentary Beyond the Mat, in which Roberts was also featured). The former wrestler, 67, survived one attempt because he vomited all over himself in his sleep. [19] The feud was advanced when, several weeks later, Earthquake appeared on WWF Prime Time Wrestling and served "Quakeburgers" to co-host Lord Alfred Hayes and Vince McMahon, later claiming that the meat was ground from Damien's carcass. Wrestling icon shot to stardom in the 1980s and early 90s with pet python Damien but turned to drink and drugs aged just 11. . In 1996, Roberts, Vader, and Brother Love appeared on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World for one episode.[52]. That somebody else was criminally underage, and she wound up giving birth to Jake when she barely a teenager. Roberts had a strained relationship with his pedophilic father,[5] and was sexually and physically abused by his stepmother during his childhood, which included vaginal penetration - his father was doing the same thing to his daughters (Aurelian Jr.'s sisters) too. He was released in February 1997. His attack on Randy Savage with a cobra stunned the fans. Smith has been the subject of allegations of repeated sexual abuse of minors, including several of his own children. According to Roberts, on the day the angle was shot, he had to let the cobra bite him on his leg at Savage's request to convince him that the snake had been devenomized and Savage would regularly check on Roberts to make sure he had no side effects from the bite. One of the most distinctive things about Jake Roberts is how seriously he took his "snake" gimmick. After Snake stumbled to the mat, an exasperated Lightning forcefully held him down for an unscripted three-count. The working man's privateer steed, the Jake the Snake is the go-to bike for Cyclocross racers and hard-core commuters alike. Allida is tongue-tied with An Impossible Thing to Say by Arya Shahi, in which an Iranian American teen in Arizonafalls in love with the new girl at school, Shakespeare, and rap music while . Jake was born into wrestling. In 2012, he moved in with fellow wrestler Diamond Dallas Page to seek help in getting his life back on track following years of alcohol and drug addiction, a period covered in the 2015 documentary The Resurrection of Jake the Snake. Jake "The Snake" Roberts WWE While working in Mid-South in 1986 he caught the eye of Vince McMahon and WWE - then the WWF. Roberts derived his nickname for seeming snake-like and untrustworthy. After kicking their decades-long addictions to drugs and alcohol, Jake "The Snake" Roberts (real name: Aurelian Smith Jr.) and Razor Ramon (real name: Scott Hall) will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame next month during Wrestlemania XXX. On the April 23, 1988 edition of WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Rude chose Roberts' real-life wife Cheryl, who refused the kiss and revealed that she was in fact the wife of Jake "The Snake". The segments included Warrior being locked inside a coffin (a reprise of an incident that occurred on The Funeral Parlor, hosted by the Undertaker's manager, Paul Bearer; earlier in the year); the Warrior being "buried alive" in dirt before being abandoned; and Warrior walking through a room full of live snakes to reach a chest containing "the answer". According to the documentary Jake Roberts: Pick Your Poison, after Jake left WWF in 1992, he and WCW had agreed to a mega-deal worth up to $3 million a year. In his promo, Roberts claimed that he had a "client" incoming to AEW to bring him down, hinting that he would be a manager for a new talent. He was the father of professional wrestlers Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Rockin' Robin, and Sam Houston . He is the creator of the "DDT" finishing move and is one of the most well known wrestlers in history. The Kentuckians' biggest rivals were the Assassins, with whom they feuded in matches across the United States. 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OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE STATUS OF FEDERAL WESTERN WATER RESOURCES Once he began coming into his own, he stumbled into his famous DDT when The Grappler stepped on his left foot and he fell flat on his ass. The accident became one of pro wrestlings most devastating and protected finishers and changed Roberts career. Eat as many apples as you can to grow as long as possible. On October 20, 2002, Roberts became the NWA UK Hammerlock Heavyweight Champion in Maidstone, Kent, England by defeating "Vigilante" Johnny Moss. Roberts came to the ring to help Beefcake, who eventually won by disqualification. [5], In 1964, the Kentuckians made a brief stop in the WWWF in the Northeast. That in itself is usually a very bad idea, but how it ended took it from "bad idea" to pure tragedy. The following year, Roberts was arrested on charges of possessing drug paraphernalia, namely a crack pipe. Good news! He was one of the subjects of the 1999 documentary film Beyond the Mat. Although the subsequent feud on the house show circuit saw Andr victorious after most of those matches, Roberts can claim a victory via disqualification over Andr after The Giant attacked special guest referee and former foe Big John Studd at WrestleMania V. Shortly after his feud with Andr had ended, Roberts entered into a feud with Ted DiBiase. It was a rip off. This sister was also a regular victim of Grizzly Smith. After graduating high school (his ever-supportive dad said, "Well, I hope you don't want anything from me"), Roberts attended one of Smith's matches and decided to challenge another wrestler. Its showing them that things are possible., The best insights from the ultimate insiders, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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In the attack, Roberts was (storyline) injured by DiBiase and needed time off to have surgery to repair the damage. In 2008, Roberts was booked against indie wrestler JT Lightning at Firestorm Pro Wrestling, but as TMZ reported, he was done long before hitting the ring. 32. He was not able to get medical attention and almost lost his leg as a result. As Jake recounted in an interview with Slam Sports, he rarely saw his father more than a couple times a year, because the old man was always on the road wrestling. Early that year, Roberts told TMZ he had a cancerous tumor behind his knee that would require surgery. [6] The Kentuckians biggest win over The Assassins came while competing in the Los Angeles-based World Wrestling Association on August 8, 1965, when they defeated their rivals to win the WWA World Tag Team Championship. "The Snake Pit" was patterned after "Piper's Pit", wherein Roberts would conduct interviews with wrestlers or managers to help push wrestlers and get feuds over with the crowd. 4. If Smith had told his son the truth about wrestling, that could've helped Roberts' psyche immensely. This led to a relapse with drugs and alcohol. Randy Savage said he enjoyed his run with Roberts, whose work was impressive. Sid and Jake wrestled on Superstars a week later. [60] Doctors also found an abnormality on his brain which they felt could be a result of all the bumps Roberts took over his long career. Attorney-at-Law Jamaica Labour Party candidate for St. Ann North East On June 14, 2014, Roberts participated in a six-man tag match in the main event for Reborn Wrestling (a Christian wrestling organization in Johnson City, Tennessee), teaming with The Stallion and Alex Cage to defeat E. Z. Jake, untrained and drunk, got battered and stretched worse than he'd ever been. [28] There was a series of gimmick matches on the wheel, but because the wheel itself was not gimmicked, neither Roberts nor Sting knew the kind of match they would be wrestling until the wheel stopped spinning. Roberts next feuded with Jerry "The King" Lawler, who went to great lengths to ridicule Roberts' past alcoholism. As Jake recounted in his documentary The Resurrection of Jake Roberts, the only reason he was born at all was because his father raped a young woman. Aurelian Jake Smith Jr. (born May 30, 1955) is a second-generation professional wrestler best known as Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Slithering to the ring with a monstrous python concealed in a burlap sack, Jake used fear as a weapon as deftly as he used pain. Roberts has a role in the 2019 film The Peanut Butter Falcon. Jake Roberts. They held the belts for several months before dropping them to Gorilla Monsoon and Luke Graham the following January. Despite the fact that he never wore WWE gold, his in-ring exploits made him a champion to his fans forever. WWF president Jack Tunney reinstated Savage as an active wrestler to get revenge for the attack. Roberts made his first television appearance on August 2, 1992, at a Main Event taping in Baltimore, Maryland after coming through the crowd to attack Sting. If you dont like it, it dont go. And I said, Yeah. Were investing three years of hard work and filming. It likely happened before the industry was ready for one. Since he still loved to wrestle, he did not make this transition well. That's not bad at all, except he never saw that money. In early 1997, the WWF wanted Roberts to wind down his in-ring career and to join the backstage side of the company. The reason why haunts Jake to this day. February 26, 2023. Sadly, few if any higher-ups told him to get help until it was almost too late. It was in Georgia Championship Wrestling during 1983 that Roberts became part of Paul Ellering's stable, the Legion of Doom, and began a feud with Ron Garvin over the NWA World Television Championship that lasted into 1984. When Roberts was dissatisfied with the answers, he hit Bearer with a DDT and, after jamming Undertaker's hand in a coffin, began hitting him with a steel chair; however, Undertaker got up after each chair shot and eventually chased Roberts backstage dragging the coffin behind him. [26] In the DVD documentary, Old School with Rockin' Robin, Robin details how she was sexually abused by her father, beginning at age 8. It's a tale about trauma, tragedy and redemption. Smith and Houston took on jobs performing maintenance in a cemetery near New Orleans' French Quarter. Stream WWE on Peacock in the U.S. and on WWE Network everywhere else. Roberts went so far as to wear white contact lenses to "prove" his blindness. -Jake "The Snake" Roberts is called one of the most authentic personalities in wrestling history. His last match with WWF was at Shotgun Saturday Night on January 25, 1997, against Salvatore Sincere in a winning effort. After the ordeal, his father laid into him: "I'm ashamed of you, you're gutless, and you'll never amount to anything.". After several days, he was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Thanks for contacting us. On Wednesday I drink a six pack. It was at this time that Roberts' problems with the discs in his back were publicly acknowledged, as DiBiase attacked Roberts after a victory over his bodyguard Virgil on WWF Superstars of Wrestling. [33] On June 15, 2014, Roberts was an entrant in the CWF Hollywood Red Carpet Rumble which was won by Willie Mack. Roberts appeared on The Funeral Parlor to demand answers from the Undertaker about why he stopped him from attacking Elizabeth. The bout ended after Roberts was able to "locate" Martel and deliver a DDT. You might think hitting rock bottom in front of everybody would be the wake-up call Roberts needed to turn his life around, but you'd be wrong. Sa fortune s lve 2 000,00 euros mensuels Before Aurelian Smith Jr. ever stepped in a ring he hoped to be an architect, having a love of working with wood and buildings. But at the time, whenever the fans started chanting DDT and I was with Hogan that was not a good thing and it cost me a lot of money. Jake Roberts' life didn't take long to turn tumultuous. But Grizzly Smith would have had to give a damn about Jake, which he obviously didn't. DAYS OF THE WEEK On Monday I drink instant espresso with fake sugar. Afterward, you just got to know that its not you, its them thats sick.. Their match was determined via the Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal gimmick. Forever ditching his birth name of Aurelian Smith Jr., Jake "The Snake" Roberts becomes lost in the character he's playing in the ring, often to his detriment. Roberts was present at Wrestlecon 2018, where he was . Jake's father was a wrestler named Grizzly Smith, who was a cold, uncaring monster in every sense of the word. He's known for having innovated one of wrestling's most inspired finishing moves in the DDTa swift symphony of high impact offense where an opponent's head is held in a front face lock before. OCTOBER 19, 2020 BACK IN 1999, the 15 or so women who called themselves Sisters With Books, or SWB for short, were all strangers to me. Ive built guns, Ive built all sorts of things, Roberts said on Zoom call sitting in front of a wooden china hutch he built at 18. I always kept it very, very real. All this, according to Jake, is why he played his untrustworthy character so well: It wasn't a character. [7] Later in 1966, Smith and Brown won the American Wrestling Association's Midwest Tag Team Championship.[8]. In February 1993, he took part in a tour in Australia. 6. [5] After 18 months, he had lost over 50lb (22kg) and regained mobility.[5][57][58]. Roberts also made an appearance in An Almost True Story: TOXIC TUTU in 2015, as himself, in a scene with Jonny Fairplay from Survivor. Though he never won a world title or headlined a WrestleMania, he's just as much an '80s WWF icon as Hulk Hogan or Randy Savage. 30 years later, Roberts has lost nearly everything to his inner demons. The World Wrestling Entertainment (Previously WWF . [23] A series of matches were planned, but the feud was canceled after the Ultimate Warrior was fired by the WWF the night of SummerSlam. If youre like a lot of wrestling fans, you love the infinitely quotable 1999 pro wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. After his wrestling career ended, he served for a time as a backstage official in the World Wrestling Federation and a road agent in World . Use the arrow keys to control your snake and spacebar to pause. On the Pick Your Poison DVD, he says he got his nickname by copying Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken "The Snake" Stabler (of whom he was a fan). He also hoped to, one day, finally hear his dad say he was proud of him. [13] He then worked for Bill Watts in the Mid-South territory[14] until being fired during a disagreement over wages. Its a moment he doesnt take for granted. Shortly after agreeing to the contract, WCW hired a man named Bill Watts to run the place. Jake The Snake Height: Jake The Snake is 6 feet 5 inches (196 cm) tall. He wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance in 1983, World Championship Wrestling in 1992, and the Mexico-based Asistencia Asesora y Administracin between 1993 and 1994 and again in 1997. Roberts no-showed several defenses, forcing SMW to give the title back to Anthony on July 5. He was apparently passed out in the locker room, with mere moments to go before he was set to wrestle. The legendary Jake the Snake features race-driven geometry in a tough yet light aluminum frame and a full carbon flat mount disc fork and is accompanied by tubeless-ready wheels. 4. In November 2002, Roberts started his own wrestling promotion in the UK, called "Real Stars of Wrestling". [15] After Rude began insulting Roberts, Cheryl slapped him, angering Rude before Roberts ran out for the save. Smith had a strained relationship with his son Aurelian Jr. (Jake Roberts), which Roberts stated was partially the result of his father not informing his children of the scripted nature of professional wrestling. RA Rates: Major Fun Save to My Sights More on Marsh's Free Museum In the spring of 1994, Roberts returned to the United States to wrestle for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). 145k Followers, 1,155 Following, 1,539 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jake 'THE SNAKE' Roberts (@jakethesnakeddt) 145k Followers, 1,155 Following, 1,539 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jake 'THE SNAKE' Roberts (@jakethesnakeddt) . Me and the boys, we go fishing and all sorts of things, Roberts said. He teamed with Eric Chapel and CraziiWolf (Crazii Shea and Greywolf), defeating the team of Salvatore Sincere, Steve C Wrestling and Pretty Ugly (Jimmy Dream and Adam Ugly). Then "El Diablo" unmasked revealing himself as Jake. As he explained, "I never wanted you to trust me.". Sadly, it didn't happen. First reports indicated that Roberts had fallen unconscious, but his manager/lawyer, Kyle P. Magee, confirmed that Roberts was alert and awake during the flight and notified the flight attendant of his pain and shortness of breath. Being a traditional architect was out the window. Just as Roberts was about to swing the chair, he was stopped by the Undertaker; Roberts was distracted long enough for Savage to hit him with the chair instead. Fortunately, he's on the rise again, thanks to old friends unwilling to give up on him no matter how much he gave up on himself, but that doesn't change how often the man's been through the ringer, essentially since birth. After spending over a year in hiatus, Roberts returned to WWF at the Royal Rumble in 1996, as a Bible-preacher. Roberts has been praised for his ring psychology. His rivalry with Randy Savage made him popular among wrestling fans. After Pat Patterson stepped down from his post on the writing staff stemming from the recent sexual harassment scandal, McMahon decided that, out of respect for Patterson, the spot would be left vacant. Smith, who was wrestling under the ring name Ski Hi Jones, and Jonathan held the title from March 25, 1968 until the following month, when The Assassins regained the championship in a rematch. [48] Roberts would accompany Archer to the ring during Archer's match with Wardlow on the April 27, 2022 episode of Dynamite. During the summer of 1997, Roberts debuted in ECW. It was severe enough that he lost consciousness in the hospital several times, but he wasn't interested in dying or giving up. He described it as living in a sthole and youre not sure if you have enough money to eat for the week or pay the rent. He also stated that the cobra died a week after the angle and he joked that the cobra must have got the venom from him. In 2005, Roberts, along with others, heavily criticized the film for showing him in a negative light, complaining that the depiction of him was "not the real Jake Roberts." Jake "The Snake" Roberts didn't feel pain when he wrestled. I dont mind telling you Im a drunk and a junkie, but that damn movie did nothing but rape me and my family. But he seemed as optimistic as ever: "If the devil can't defeat me, cancer doesn't stand a chance in Hell!" It's still hard for me to watch this documentary and some of the clips, because I have to see just how bad I was. That all changed thanks to events like Heroes of Wrestling, a pay-per-view that exposed the Snake as the near-hopeless mess he truly was at the time. [2] Smith also competed in Georgia, where he challenged Freddie Blassie for the NWA Georgia World Heavyweight Championship but was unable to win the title belt. Money, Reborn Champion Cody Ices and Anthony Brody. My God, he giveth but he ain't got the balls to do nothin' else." One person who doesnt is WWE Hall of Famer Jake The Snake Roberts, one of the films subjects. After the ill-fated night at 18, he learned the business through trial and error and got his ass handed to me often by veterans over his first two years. During a panel at Tidewater Comicon, Jake revealed why Watts did it. Smith began competing in professional wrestling in Texas, but he worked on an oilfield part-time as well. As far as Jake was concerned, his father was always on the brink of getting killed in the ring because his opponent was out for blood. In the 2023 A&E documantary on his son's life, Aurelian Jr., better known as Jake the Snake Roberts, again stated that his father sexually abused minors during his childhood. It's little wonder Jake left WCW before ringing in 1993. Jake Roberts and His Snakes. That theres hope, Roberts said when asked what he wants people to take away from the documentary. Being as good and great as Hulk [Hogan] was there was some corn in that, a little too much in believability. Three of his children went on to become professional wrestlers: Aurelian Jr. as Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Michael as Sam Houston, and Robin as Rockin' Robin. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 5, 2014, and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 2020. Beginning on January 4, 2022, Roberts will take part in a podcast with Diamond Dallas Page and Conrad Thompson titled DDP Snakepit. Also, Smith apparently only went after her because the woman he had been dating Jake's grandmother had passed out, so Smith decided to go into another room and be with somebody else. June 26, 2020. Changes had to be made to the match's scripting as legitimate injuries sustained earlier in the evening in a match with Vader left Roberts unable to engage in the longer, more evenly matched bout originally intended between the men. . Jake "The Snake" Roberts began his career when he became a referee and a wrestler. Roberts returned and feuded with DiBiase throughout the end of 1989 into 1990, including a point where Roberts stole DiBiase's Million Dollar Belt, daring him or Virgil to reach into the canvas sack where Damien was to retrieve it. 7 and was eliminated by Stone Cold Steve Austin. Roberts does believe he may have played better during WWEs Attitude Era. That famous period of wrestling popularity was led by the anti-hero Stone Cold Steve Austin, who Roberts helped create at King of the Ring 1996. In 1999, Roberts was unflatteringly featured in the wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. In wrestling, Roberts got to be someone else when he walked through the curtain and the documentary gives you a look at the journey, which did not include going to a wrestling school. Not wanting to see his trainer and friend waste away any longer, Page pitched his DDP Yoga program, hoping to get Roberts back in shape and discipline him enough to stay sober. He is best known for his two stints in the World Wrestling Federation (later called WWE); the first between 1986 and 1992, and the second between 1996 and 1997. How to Play Snake. He was booked to face Jim Neidhart in one half of the card's double main event in what was billed as a "special grudge match" between the two. McMahon wanted to add a live snake to his persona. You know, Beyond the Mat. [2] He had three children from his first marriage: two sons, Aurelian Jr. and Richard, and a daughter, Jo Lynn (who was kidnapped in 1979). Roberts appeared unannounced on WWE Raw and looked to be in phenomenal shape. [49], On February 1, 2023, it was announced that Roberts, along with Mark Henry, Paul Wight, and Shawn Dean was named a special advisor in AEW's community outreach program, titled AEW Together. 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