They continued to pursue the belts and regained them later that month, holding them until a loss to The Spoilers later that year. ", turning Roberts heel for the first time since 1987. Between weeks' worth of clothes, wrestling gear, and the giant snake, it's quite possible Jake's body was hurt more by traveling than getting thrown around the ring. Roberts, livid at having lost to him and having received two of Savage's flying elbow drops (one of which after the match), was helped backstage. Then in April 1993, he toured Europe, particularly Austria and Germany. In August 2014, Roberts fell ill during a flight from Atlanta to Las Vegas, where he was scheduled to attend a birthday event for fellow wrestler Nick Cvjetkovich. [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. Watts voided Jake's contract, forcing him to sign for a mere $200,000 per year. [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. Jake "The Snake" Roberts is widely known as one of the greatest minds in wrestling and a master of psychology in the ring and on the microphone. Later that year, he became less fine, coming down with double pneumonia because he's a big guy and one pneumonia simply wasn't enough. 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He was diagnosed with the flu two weeks earlier and ignored doctors' advice of rest and continued to travel to events. I stayed there for some period of time. And it's going to be a long journey. In fact, he's been dealing with adversity from day one, thanks to his father. In fact, he's thriving, because 60 years of misery was apparently his limit. McMahon wanted to add a live snake to his persona. 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. Jake Roberts. Roberts came to the ring to help Beefcake, who eventually won by disqualification. Roberts always had a complicated family reality because his father was a pedophile with young women. They both contend that the resulting emotional trauma is responsible for Roberts' substance abuse and his sister's mental health problems. [5] He has a half-brother, Michael Smith, and a half-sister, Robin Smith, both of whom also became wrestlers. The feud continued with Steamboat winning most of the matches (losing only one because he threw Roberts back in the ring before the 10 count, while not beating the count himself), most notably a Snake Pit Match (ostensibly a no-DQ match) at The Big Event in Toronto, and the rematch on the October 1986 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event XII. In 1984, Roberts entered World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) joining up with "Gentleman" Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez in their feud against the Von Erichs, winning the WCCW Television title and 6-Man Tag Team title (with Adams and Hernandez). Roberts attempted to go to rehab, but it wasnt until 2012 that he hit rock bottom. 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If that wasn't enough, Jake also had to deal with said grandmother dying of cancer, his beloved stepfather being electrocuted to death, and constant abuse from his stepmother. You start getting involved, go to church with the kids, do this with the kids, and become involved in what theyre doing and not what youre doing, he said. Her areas of practice include general legal advice, probate . 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. On the March 11, 1989, episode of Saturday Night's Main Event XX, Andr got involved in a match between Rick Rude and Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, siding with fellow Heenan Family member Rude. [38] Regarding his Hall of Fame induction, he later said, "It wasn't at all what I expected it was more about healing between a man and his family. During the post-SummerSlam wedding reception of Savage and Miss Elizabeth (in reality they had been married since 1984), Elizabeth opened a gift package containing a live cobra. 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. To prevent Roberts from sustaining a further injury, he was quickly defeated by Austin; in a post-match interview, Austin mocked his recital of the biblical passage John 3:16 by saying "You sit there and you thump your Bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere! In January 1967, the Kentuckians showed up in Japan's International Wrestling Enterprise. [63] He missed AEW tapings on December 16 and 17, citing this illness. Smith and Brown formed a tag team known as The Kentuckians, and the pair used the gimmick of a pair of hillbillies. After spending over a year in hiatus, Roberts returned to WWF at the Royal Rumble in 1996, as a Bible-preacher. Nobody knows what else he's gotten away with except the Snake himself. As he explained, "I never wanted you to trust me.". Jake "the Snake" Roberts was among the most famous professional wrestlers in the world. On television, Rude's lower body was blurred outintimating that Rude was stripped nude. That in itself is usually a very bad idea, but how it ended took it from "bad idea" to pure tragedy. Recognizing his microphone skills, Roberts was given his own talk segment called "The Snake Pit", which debuted on the first episode of WWF Wrestling Challenge in late 1986. His father, Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith (19322010), also a wrestler, left his mother when she was 17 by which time she had given birth to another child. The WWE icon was hit in the head with chairs and guitars and once broke his arm so badly during a match his bone was sticking out. [21], Smith retired from wrestling and moved to Louisiana, where he shared a house with his son Michael (Sam Houston) in Metairie. Jake, perhaps finally sick of his old life, gave the program a shot between that and actually eating real food for once, he dropped 40 pounds in just a few months and dedicated himself entirely to the program. Harry Smith Involved In Incident With Jake Roberts At WrestleCon By TS Staff Published Apr 10, 2018 Harry Smith didn't take too kindly to some things Roberts said about his late father, Davey Boy Smith, so he confronted Jake The Snake at WrestleCon. After the ordeal, his father laid into him: "I'm ashamed of you, you're gutless, and you'll never amount to anything.". 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. 3 Too Popular To Feud With Hogan. (Matsuda later recommended Smith's daughter Rockin' Robin to work for All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling in the 1990s). I never got a nickel out of that. Jake "The Snake" Roberts. It's not perfect, wrapped up in a bow, but a work in progress. A short feud with Sid ensued when Sid was scheduled to wrestle "El Diablo" and the Undertaker came out and accepted the challenge to face Sid. [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. [6], Roberts started his career in 1974 in the Louisiana area, as a referee and wrestler, making his name in Mid-South Wrestling, Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling. On the November 2 episode of Saturday Night, Tony Schiavone conducted a sit-down interview with Roberts regarding the decision of Bill Watts to ban his bringing of the snake to ringside, and his impending first-round match against Dustin Rhodes in the first round of the King of Cable tournament. I didn't want anyone to get close to me. Attorney-at-Law Jamaica Labour Party candidate for St. Ann North East Clearly, he succeeded. 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. Smith and Houston took on jobs performing maintenance in a cemetery near New Orleans' French Quarter. As the match went on, the arena lights were turned off. The Snake's still here, so clearly he beat it. Advertised as "a grueling 40 city campaign" containing pretty girls, wrestling, amazing circus stunts, and a fist fight, the tour features Jim Rose and wrestler Sinn Bodhi as "Team Jake". He was the father of professional wrestlers Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Rockin' Robin, and Sam Houston. This led to a relapse with drugs and alcohol. Jake "The Snake" Roberts was afraid of snakes. 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. Unfortunately, the courts could never prove a murder took place since they never found the body, meaning the ex-wife only got ten years in prison on the kidnapping charge. This sister was also a regular victim of Grizzly Smith. 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. They won the match and the title belts but were stripped of the championship later that month. In the late 1980s, Roberts made a guest appearance on the DJ Kat Show on Fox, challenging DJ to a match after the Kat had badmouthed the profession. He also hoped to, one day, finally hear his dad say he was proud of him. 6. There they feuded with Gorilla Monsoon & Klondike Bill and the Graham Brothers. 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). During the summer of 1997, Roberts debuted in ECW. In October 1999, Roberts was one of several former NWA, WWF, and ECW wrestlers brought in to compete in the first Heroes of Wrestling event in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Somehow he overcome that when he stepped out into an arena. To explain the absence of the cobra, Tunney "banned" Roberts from ever bringing a snake to the ring again. They challenged Antonio Inoki and Hiro Matsuda for the NWA World Tag Team Championship twice but lost by disqualification both times, although Inoki was able to pin Smith in the second fall of the second match. 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. As he told SI, "The snake was something to hide behind. Almost as well known is the dark side of Jake's life. Best Match Powered by Whitepages Premium AGE 60s Marsha G Smith Tiger, GA View Full Report Addresses Parker Hollifield Rd, Tiger, GA Instead of fighting for the Intercontinental Championship, the prize of the feud was DiBiase's own Million Dollar Championship. Because something would just happen because when I would walk out of that damn locker room, it was like a switch being clicked and, I was no long Aurelian Smith, I became Jake The Snake Roberts then and Jake The Snake didnt give a fk about anything.. Being a traditional architect was out the window. On May 18, 2013, Roberts returned to the ring for First State Championship Wrestling, a Delaware-based wrestling promotion, as part of an eight-man tag team main event. Professional wrestling was lucky to have Jake "The Snake" Roberts then, as an entertainer, and it's lucky to have him now, as a source of knowledge. Were going to put it together. She was admitted to practice law in 1997. After Snake stumbled to the mat, an exasperated Lightning forcefully held him down for an unscripted three-count. The Resurrection of Jake the Snake is now streaming for free on Prime Video! Roberts made his final British appearance at WAW's October Outrage show in Canvey Island, Essex, once again teaming with Steve Quintain against the UK Pitbulls. 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." So it was he posed for a "Just say no to drugs" poster, even if he couldn't say no himself. [2][22] Smith died of Alzheimer's disease on June 12, 2010 in Amarillo, Texas.[21][23]. Smith's feud with The Assassins also took him to Western Canada, where he teamed with Don Leo Jonathan to defeat The Assassins for the Vancouver version of the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship. During the latter segment, the Warrior opened the chest, only to be immediately bitten by a king cobra (actually a rubber prop). 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. 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". On the November 23 (taped October 21) edition of WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Roberts goaded Savage into the ring and brutally attacked him, eventually tying Savage into the ropes and got the king cobra to bite his arm; the snake was devenomized and, according to Roberts' DVD Pick Your Poison, he had trouble getting the cobra to release his bite. Roberts was set to wrestle Jim Neidhart, but a pre-match interview showed he was in no condition to wrestle, or do anything really. It likely happened before the industry was ready for one. 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