WWE Corridor of Famer and present AEW expertise Jake “The Snake” Roberts completed a lot all through his decades-long profession, which began again in 1974, together with working alongside an precise snake, however there’s one hardcore stipulation the legend stated he would have appreciated to have competed in. On an episode “The Snake Pit,” Roberts answered questions from followers, and stated he did not suppose there have been many gimmick matches he hadn’t accomplished all through the years.
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“Possibly a TLC [match,]” he mused to co-host Marcus DeAngelo. Roberts stated he would have gone by means of a desk if a match required it when DeAngelo introduced up an unintentional desk spot he knew the legend took in his profession. Although he has watched a deathmatch involving extra unconventional weapons, it is nothing one thing Roberts is taken with proper now.
“No thumbtacks. No glass. None of that bulls***. No baseball bats,” Roberts stated. “That is simply, yeah, you are placing your profession on the road.”
Roberts stated, nonetheless, if he was nonetheless 24 or 25 years outdated, he would take a light-weight tube for a large payday, “so long as he did not must die” in a deathmatch. The 69 12 months outdated’s closing match occurred in Unhealthy Boys of Wrestling’s No Limits occasion, the place he defeated IamThePROVIDER in September 2018. His final match in WWE, then nonetheless generally known as the WWF, was at “Shotgun Saturday Evening” in opposition to Salvatore Honest, in a successful effort in January 1997. Roberts, who continues to be signed to WWE on a Legends deal, debuted for AEW in March 2020. On display, he’s at present the supervisor of La Faccion Ingobernable, and behind-the-scenes, he serves as a particular advisor for AEW Collectively, the corporate’s neighborhood outreach program.
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