In November 2020, Roberts was taken to the hospital after feeling breathless during a long period of persistent coughing. [53], In 2007, WWE started a policy of paying all expenses for its former performers who wanted to start drug rehabilitation programs. 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. He was apparently passed out in the locker room, with mere moments to go before he was set to wrestle. With his trademark snake companion at his side, Jake created and mastered the "DDT," a deadly maneuver used regularly today by wrestlers all over the world. "[39] After his induction, he would continue to make sporadic appearances, and would also be a regular on WWE Story Time, even making an appearance on the show after his AEW debut. Their match was determined via the Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal gimmick. He is best known by his ring name of Jake "The Snake" Roberts, and often brought snakes into the ring, including a boa constrictor named Damien and even a de-venomed cobra, named Lucifer. 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. After being woken up and angrily demanding an 8-ball, Roberts stumbled into the arena and began mumbling at both the fans and Lightning. According to the Pick Your Poison DVD, Roberts had initially signed a lucrative contract under Kip Allen Frey, who was running WCW at the time. Jake always carried a snake in his bag which, he usually used on his opponents. His most famous son, Jake the Snake, was the result of Smith's rape of his mother. Roberts moved from the feud with Rude into a feud with Andr the Giant who was also managed by Bobby Heenan. It is the first time we hear some of his kids feelings about the pain his absence caused and the healing that has brought him back into their lives. For that, and presumably for other reasons, Roberts ended his panel talk by calling Watts a "sorry piece of sh*t" without "a good bone in his body." Unfortunately, Jake's life outside the ring has largely been filled with tragedy, and much of his life has not been happy. Me and the boys, we go fishing and all sorts of things, Roberts said. That theres hope, Roberts said when asked what he wants people to take away from the documentary. Roberts responded by flashing the crowd, punching a wall, breaking his hand, and running out into the streets crying. Jake "The Snake" Roberts WWE While working in Mid-South in 1986 he caught the eye of Vince McMahon and WWE - then the WWF. Everyone was scared of the snake, and that's exactly what I wanted. Wash on gentle, cold water. [56], In October 2012, while financially distressed and having resumed abusing alcohol and drugs, Roberts moved in with former wrestler Diamond Dallas Page in Atlanta, Georgia, a time which was chronicled in the documentary The Resurrection of Jake the Snake. While Vince McMahon and booker George Scott were adamant about wanting the DDT to take place on the floor, Roberts initially refused until Steamboat told him that he would be able to adequately protect himself from injury. Rogers was knocked out when Roberts stuck the snake in Roger's pants. Roberts, 67, said there are still moments where I get really down on myself when I realize how much I missed because he was on the road wrestling and later in his life battling addiction. 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. 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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. 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) . The Snake had truly hit bottom, and even then it would take four more years before he found what would save his life. He was born Aurelian Smith Jr., but wrestling fans know him by his more famous, far catchier ring name: Jake "The Snake" Roberts. In 2018, Roberts embarked on his a series of spoken word shows dubbed The Dirty Details Tour, subtitled "Tales From The Pit". 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. Roberts always had a complicated family reality because his father was a pedophile with young women. Around the same time, the WWF had also tried to set Roberts up as a nemesis to then fan-favorite WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan, and challenging him for the title. The documentary also claimed that Aurelian Jr. was conceived by the rape of his mother. Jake "The Snake" Roberts was afraid of snakes. Years later in a 2015 shoot interview, Roberts jokingly thanked the fans for ruining what would have been the biggest (and most profitable) run of his career as at the time Hogan was the biggest and most popular babyface and a run against Hogan would have meant main event television and pay-per-view matches. 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! After the match, Roberts mounted an offensive against DiBiase and Virgil and then began giving away DiBiase's "money" including giving some money to actress Mary Tyler Moore who was seated at ringside. He'd slither into the ring, pepper . 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. Phone: 360-642-2188 Admission: Free. Jake and his two half-siblings all even wrestled in the WWF at the same time in the 1980s. Aurelian Jake Smith, Jr. (May 30, 1955) is a second-generation semi-retired American professional wrestler, the son of former wrestler Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith. [5] During filming, Roberts had shoulder surgery which was paid for through crowdfunding. Cheryl would remain on the road with Jake as his pseudo manger/valet. During the summer of 1997, Roberts debuted in ECW. The World Wrestling Entertainment (Previously WWF . This sister was also a regular victim of Grizzly Smith. "[59] In July 2014, he announced that he was cancer-free after various surgeries. The pair lost most of their possessions in the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In 1999, Roberts was unflatteringly featured in the wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. In a response to the article, Roberts was quoted as saying, "If the devil can't defeat me, cancer doesn't stand a chance in hell! [5] He was inducted by Diamond Dallas Page on April 5, 2014. On October 6, 2007, he lost to Scott Hall at Juggalo Championship Wrestling. The feud ended on Saturday Night's Main Event XXX, with Savage getting the win. Her areas of practice include general legal advice, probate . 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. Savage stated in a shoot interview that his arm swelled and he developed a high fever afterward and had to be checked at a hospital. [5] After 18 months, he had lost over 50lb (22kg) and regained mobility.[5][57][58]. 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 . Aurelian Smith Jr. better known by the ring name Jake "The Snake" Roberts, is an American professional wrestler and actor signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he performs as manager to Lance Archer. Moss regained the title the next night in Ashford, Kent, though. As he explained, "I never wanted you to trust me.". Such callousness motivated Jake to pursue wrestling full-time to show his dad how wrong he was. Instead of fighting for the Intercontinental Championship, the prize of the feud was DiBiase's own Million Dollar Championship. [27] His first WCW match came six days later when he defeated Marcus Alexander Bagwell on a house show in Chicago, Illinois. You know, Beyond the Mat. Smith's health had been deteriorating for several years, and he developed a staphylococcal infection after scraping his leg the day before the storm hit. I grew up in the small Texas town where Jake was born (the same town where DDP picks him up at the beginning of the Resurrection of Jake the Snake documentary). In the set-up, Roberts explained to Warrior that, after passing three tests, he would have the "knowledge of the dark side" to defeat Undertaker. After retiring in the late-1970s, he held various backstage positions with promotions including Mid-South Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation, and World Championship Wrestling . As he put it, "it no longer became a choice to [drink]. The reactions he was getting in the ring didnt help either. As he toldone website, "Carrying that 100-pound snake around was brutal on my body." As the match went on, the arena lights were turned off. Jake Roberts and His Snakes. 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. Unfortunately, Steamboat was unable to stop his head from hitting the concrete and was rendered unconscious, sustaining a concussion. He weighed well over 300 pounds and could barely walk. [25] On his Pick Your Poison DVD, Roberts expressed his regret for his actions to get a release from his contract. 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. I dont have to walk around the corner and hide something. The camera crew faded to black immediately, proving they had more sense than whoever allowed Roberts to even attempt wrestling while in his wretched state. WWE legend Jake 'The Snake' Roberts reveals all about being conceived in rape and how he was molested as a child. Roberts warned Orton that facing The Undertaker, particularly at WrestleMania, could be a soul-altering experience; he then fell victim to Orton's "RKO," helping to fuel Orton's "Legend Killer" gimmick. Roberts' first major feud was against Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, beginning on a nationally televised episode of Saturday Night's Main Event VI in May 1986. 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. [11] Smith and The Spoiler continued to feud, however, and The Spoiler regained the Heavyweight Championship in August and the Tag Team Championship in September. He said, If you dont think its a fair toss, then we toss it out the window. Well, I couldnt argue with that.. February 26, 2023. Things got so awkward and bad, the promoter had to send two other wrestlers out to make it a tag team match, simply so Roberts didn't embarrass himself any further. Roberts wrestled for the WWE in the late '80s and '90s and was infamous for bringing a pet snake . 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. Roberts debuted in the Mexican promotion Asistencia Asesora y Administracin (AAA) in April 1993, causing the defeat of Konnan in the career vs. career match at Triplemana I. Roberts' run-in started a feud that lasted until 1994 at Triplemana II-C, in which Konnan defeated Roberts in a hair vs. hair match which Roberts got his long hair cut off and shaved bald. Knowing what Jake's gone through, it's little surprise that the Snakeman eventually turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with life. He said that often instead of following his partners lead he would try something at the wrong place and time during a match. That led to him reaching out to his friend Diamond Dallas Page and living with him for the next two years. The culmination of their feud took place at WrestleMania VI at the Skydome in Toronto, wherein a match where the Million Dollar Belt was on the line, DiBiase gained a count-out victory over Roberts, thus regaining his non-sanctioned title. Roberts also made an appearance in An Almost True Story: TOXIC TUTU in 2015, as himself, in a scene with Jonny Fairplay from Survivor. Apparently, Watts had a deal with WCW where he made a percentage of the money he saved the company, so he was cutting down contracts left and right, including Jake's. 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. 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. As he told Salon, "I felt nasty doing that poster, but you do what you're told sometimes." The team never won the tag titles and went back south. After leaving WCW, Roberts spent his next couple of years wrestling around the world. Jake dealt with this fear (and pain) every night because he saw his snake as a wall to keep people from learning too much about the man behind the slithery creature. In December, he made his debut for Ricky Knight's World Association of Wrestling in Lowestoft. Of Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Roberts no-showed several defenses, forcing SMW to give the title back to Anthony on July 5. The following year, Roberts was arrested on charges of possessing drug paraphernalia, namely a crack pipe. After Snake stumbled to the mat, an exasperated Lightning forcefully held him down for an unscripted three-count. Regardless if that is 100% accurate, in storylineJake attacked rude and ripped the tights right off of Rude in the middle of the ring. Jake 'The Snake' Roberts' Tragic Real-Life Story. Several years later, he's still in great shape, and is growing back the mullet to boot. Roberts next feuded with Jerry "The King" Lawler, who went to great lengths to ridicule Roberts' past alcoholism. Aurelian Smith Jr. (born May 30, 1955), better known by the ring name Jake " The Snake " Roberts, [1] [2] is an American professional wrestler and actor currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he performs as manager to Lance Archer, and he also serves a special advisor for AEW's community outreach program, AEW Together . In November 1986, Roberts challenged Randy Savage for the Intercontinental Championship. His introduction came towards the end of a match between Lawler and Tommy Dreamer, which was the main event of the show. The Resurrection of Jake the Snake is now streaming for free on Prime Video! I never got a nickel out of that. (358) 7.8 1 h 36 min 2015 PG. In November 2002, Roberts started his own wrestling promotion in the UK, called "Real Stars of Wrestling". In February 1993, he took part in a tour in Australia. 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. They held the belts for several months before dropping them to Gorilla Monsoon and Luke Graham the following January. From there, he went to Mississippi to work with promoter George Culkin. 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The Hon. 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. Money, Reborn Champion Cody Ices and Anthony Brody. Roberts debuted in the World Wrestling Federation on March 8, 1986, at the Boston Garden defeating Jose Luis Rivera. After Honky Tonk won the Intercontinental Championship from Ricky Steamboat, Roberts unsuccessfully challenged him for the Championship several times throughout the rest of 1987. He later had two more children, Michael and Robin, with his second wife Marsha. But at 18, he decided to give wrestling a try to prove his toughness to his infamous father Grizzly Smith. I built a house full of furniture for my first marriage, but I loved working with wood. You couldnt see through my st.. 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. 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. 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. 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. Oct 19, 2020 | By Marsha Smith | Los Angeles Review of Books. Reclamation's CVP power facilities, in an average summer, generates 5,000 gigawatt hours (GWh). On Wednesday I drink a six pack. Smith, who had wrestled under the ring names Jake Smith and Tiny Anderson,[4][2] began competing as Grizzly Smith, although he also wrestled as Tiny Smith. Cobras may be scary, but they only weigh 15 pounds. Jake The Snake Height: Jake The Snake is 6 feet 5 inches (196 cm) tall. He was diagnosed with the flu two weeks earlier and ignored doctors' advice of rest and continued to travel to events. Roberts did not appear at the Royal Rumble event, but was announced as part of the 2014 Class of the WWE Hall of Fame. [27] These allegations were also the subject of the season 3 episode of Dark Side of the Ring named "In The Shadow of Grizzly Smith". 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. [3] He often brought snakes into the ring, most famously a python. [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. Jake Roberts' life didn't take long to turn tumultuous. In fact, he's thriving, because 60 years of misery was apparently his limit. Jake The Snake Net Worth: Jake The Snake has a net worth of $3 million. After several days, he was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. And yet, there he was hanging around with a 12-foot python called Damien night in and night out. 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. The working man's privateer steed, the Jake the Snake is the go-to bike for Cyclocross racers and hard-core commuters alike. He was drunk out of his mind, slurred an incoherent speech about how he cheats at blackjack, and could barely stand up. 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.. [5] Notably, although Ambrose's onscreen character was unconscious, he himself was visibly attempting not to smile during the segment as Roberts had been his favorite wrestler during his childhood. Washing Instructions: Turn shirt inside out. 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. After the match, Roberts placed his snake on Raven. [5] Jim Ross said he also stands out for his promo work. Born in 1955, Jake was named Aurelian Smith Junior after his father Aurelian aka Grizzly Smith a noted wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s. He then went to the camera man and screamed; "Your God he giveth, and he can taketh away. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. The bout ended after Roberts was able to "locate" Martel and deliver a DDT. Roberts returned to Mid-South Wrestling for 1985, ending his run there in February 1986 with a feud with Dick Slater after being told by management that he was not considered a top talent even though he was getting the biggest crowd reactions. In Jake's case, however, he and the law had a long-running feud that wasn't nearly as fun as his WWF rivalries. He appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling during the summer of 1997 and made appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2006 through 2008.Throughout his career, Roberts was known for his intense and cerebral promos, dark charisma, extensive use of psychology in his matches, and innovative use of the DDT finishing move (which was later named the "coolest" maneuver of all time by WWE). It was a rip off. 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