WWE legend Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts has recalled a frightening story involving an alligator.
The icon, who was a popular figure in WWE during the 80s and 90s, no doubt has some interesting tales to tell from his decades in and out of the ring. He recently told a rather bizarre one on his Snake Pit podcast, which involved him and a group of wrestlers.
On one of many trips, they came across what they thought was a dead alligator and decided to pick it up and put it into their wagon. “We back up and get out and make sure it’s dead, and throw it in the back of that f****** car,” the WWE Hall of Famer said.
"We were just going to take him home man, it’s like a seven or eight-foot alligator or something. There was room for it right there, you can reach over the seat and pat him and everything. All of a sudden we hear it, that mother****** wasn’t quite dead, no he was coming back. So we had to go ahead and kill it, man.”
While the days of Roberts as an in-ring competitor are over, he is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling and had been the manager of Lance Archer.
At the start of this month, along with WWE legends Mark Henry and the Big Show, Roberts was named a special advisor in AEW's community outreach program, titled AEW Together .
Roberts sees many wrestlers up close and has seen how the industry has changed since his heyday.
During an appearance on the Cheap Heat with Peter Rosenberg podcast, the opinionated 67-year-old insisted fans soon won’t remember most of the current performers. “They don’t listen to me at all. Their idea is like, ‘I got a fat f****** contract and we’ll ride this.’ I get it," he said boldly.
“10 years from now, half those guys — you won’t even remember their names. I say 85 percent of ’em — you won’t even remember their names because they’re flash in the pans and they don’t have any character.
“Jake ‘The Snake’ has not been in the ring since 1997, 2000? That’s 20-something years, and I’m so friggin’ busy now, man, I’m barely keeping my head above the water.
“I’m being buried with people wanting me to do things. I don’t see these young kids doing signings, and you know why? Because nobody knows who the f**** they are.
“They go, ‘oh wait, I’ve seen him on TV.’ And then they see how little they are. Holy s***, they’re really blown away then.”
