You got your st right.. 25 talking about this. [34] After Roberts took his snake out of a bag, Brother Runt told him to put it away. 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. [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". He then went to the camera man and screamed; "Your God he giveth, and he can taketh away. Jake the Snake Roberts, Biography. On May 2, he defeated Tony Anthony to win the SMW Heavyweight Championship; the title change aired on May 14. 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. Nobody knows what else he's gotten away with except the Snake himself. After all, if people get close they may sense weakness and vulnerability, two parts of Jake's personality he wasn't ready to confront. Smith began wrestling in 1958. I didn't see a way out. In realityRude had on thong underwear. Its a moment he doesnt take for granted. [15] This began a heated feud throughout the summer of 1988, which escalated after Rude began wearing a pair of tights emblazoned with a visage of Mrs. Roberts, which an irate Roberts tore off. Jake Roberts' life didn't take long to turn tumultuous. 5. 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. This episode, entitled In the Shadow of Grizzly Smith, was most definitely not for the faint of heart. After doing such things as pretending his snake was a penis and stroking it like he was masturbating and attempting to kiss the snake with his tongue, the show's promoter sent King Kong Bundy and Yokozuna, who were supposed to compete in the other main event match, to the ring and made the main event a tag team match with Roberts teaming with Yokozuna against Bundy and Neidhart. 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). Jake The Snake Salary: Roberts was making $500,000 per year when he was wrestling in the WWF in the late 1980s. While working in Mid-South in 1986 he caught the eye of Vince McMahon and WWE then the WWF. Throughout the '80s and '90s, Roberts entertained millions of fans with his creepy antics, giant snake, and championship-caliber mullet. However, after Roberts hit Hogan with a DDT during an episode of The Snake Pit, fans responded positively to the attack by chanting "DDT" rather than for Hogan, and McMahon abandoned his plans for a feud between them. Jake "The Snake" Roberts. In May 1989, Roberts found himself arrested at a WWF show and charged with aggravated battery according to the Orlando Sentinel, he punched out a man in a Florida bar the previous December. If you're not an Amazon Prime subscriber, the immersive documentary is also available to rent on Vudu ($2. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. 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. I was praying it would happen soon. In Jake's case, however, he and the law had a long-running feud that wasn't nearly as fun as his WWF rivalries. 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. 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. In fact, he's thriving, because 60 years of misery was apparently his limit. 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. Then "El Diablo" unmasked revealing himself as Jake. 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. 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. But when you get to the bottom, brother, its a lonely cold place. Sadly, this is what can happen when someone who hates snakes is in charge of one. 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 actual match lasted maybe a minute. Aurelian Jake Smith Jr. (born May 30, 1955) is a second-generation professional wrestler best known as Jake "The Snake" Roberts. I built a house full of furniture for my first marriage, but I loved working with wood. Following a brief feud with Bad News Brown in the summer of 1990, Roberts also feuded with Rick "The Model" Martel throughout late 1990 into early 1991, after Martel (kayfabe) blinded Roberts by spraying his cologne "Arrogance" into his eyes. So when Dallas brought this to me, the first thing I did was scream, No way! 3 Jake "The Snake" Roberts has opened up on his drink and drug demons Credit: Getty 3 [17][18][19], Smith was born in Houston, Texas and grew up with a brother, who died at age nine, and two sisters. 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. After surgery and recovery, he was just fine. 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. 32. Roberts has been praised for his ring psychology. via playsleague.com Roberts performed a DDT on Runt instead. That in itself is usually a very bad idea, but how it ended took it from "bad idea" to pure tragedy. JakeSnakeDDT Roberts has a role in the 2019 film The Peanut Butter Falcon. All this, according to Jake, is why he played his untrustworthy character so well: It wasn't a character. I probably would have been able to go further with it [during the Attitude Era], Roberts said. I had given up on life completely, I was just waiting to die. 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. Smith's daughter stated that he had sexually abused her as well. [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. Phone: 360-642-2188 Admission: Free. 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. Roberts scored a pinfall victory over Sting, which built their feud further. 3 Too Popular To Feud With Hogan. 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. He also hoped to, one day, finally hear his dad say he was proud of him. In late 1986, Roberts began to enjoy an upsurge in fan popularity, despite the WWF's attempts to cast him as an unpopular villain. By 2012, Roberts was a total mess. [28] To go along with his new gimmick, his new albino Burmese python was named "Revelations". It's paid off immensely, as WWE fans saw for themselves in early 2014. 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. Jake 'The Snake' Roberts' Tragic Real-Life Story. In 2018, Roberts embarked on his a series of spoken word shows dubbed The Dirty Details Tour, subtitled "Tales From The Pit". But Grizzly Smith would have had to give a damn about Jake, which he obviously didn't. [5] His weight had ballooned to over 300lb (136kg) and he was having trouble doing simple tasks such as walking without becoming short of breath. 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. Hours: Su-Th 10-5, F-Sa 10-6 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access. As I understood it from my grandparents, the things Grizzly Smith did were a sort of open secret among people who were around during that time and it always bothered me that the same . She says things were so bad in 1998 she was grateful when he stayed away. Roberts, who still has four of his kids who currently dont want him back in their lives, said it was a gradual process getting accepted back by the other four starting with asking for forgiveness. Jake "The Snake" Roberts, 59 -- The Lowest Point It was a long journey - it's been almost three years now. But while most fans know he's been an addict since at least the '90s, the truth is he started much earlier, long before anyone knew who he was. She was educated at Brown's Town Primary School, Westwood High School, Brown's Town Community College, the University of the West Indies and Norman Manley Law School. [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. Its showing them that things are possible., The best insights from the ultimate insiders, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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That theres hope, Roberts said when asked what he wants people to take away from the documentary. 4. Roberts was so intoxicated that during the course of the night, he slurred his way through a promo before the match and staggered to, from, and around the ring during his entrance. You couldnt see through my st.. Unfortunately, Steamboat was unable to stop his head from hitting the concrete and was rendered unconscious, sustaining a concussion. 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. Be careful not to hit the wall or eat your tail! From there, he went to Mississippi to work with promoter George Culkin. 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. Roberts appeared on The Funeral Parlor to demand answers from the Undertaker about why he stopped him from attacking Elizabeth. After all he's been through, it's shocking that Jake Roberts isn't dead. In 2016, he went on his Unspoken Word tour. 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.. 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. The Resurrection of Jake the Snake is now streaming for free on Prime Video! Marsh's Free Museum Address: 409 Pacific Ave., Long Beach, WA Directions: Along the main drag. Never trust a snake. Roberts did not appear at the Royal Rumble event, but was announced as part of the 2014 Class of the WWE Hall of Fame. Washing Instructions: Turn shirt inside out. Unexpectedly, Jake gets a visit from an old friend who returns in an effort to repay him. 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 . Roberts made an appearance on the October 19, 2006 episode of TNA Impact!. We went to great lengths to show how far down I went and the road to recovery.. Roberts made an appearance on March 14, 2005, on Raw, where he confronted Randy Orton, who was preparing to challenge The Undertaker at WrestleMania 21. In September 1993, he took part wrestling a tour for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Other types used were a reticulated python named Lucifer, an unnamed devenomized cobra, and an albino Burmese python named Revelations (during Roberts' Christian conversion gimmick in 1996). 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. 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. Her solution was to run off with a 55-year-old man when she was just 18. At that point, you watch it. On October 6, 2007, he lost to Scott Hall at Juggalo Championship Wrestling. [34] Roberts then gave a "mumbling" promo. I always kept it very, very real. Following the loss to Sting he continued his feud, facing him on several house shows immediately after the event. When you eat an apple, your tail grows by four blocks instead of the usual one. 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. "NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes: Grizzly Smith, Class of 2008", "Southeastern Wrestling News, Notes, and Nostalgia: 11/13/2008", "NWA United States Tag Team Title (Tri-State)", "Mid-South (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi)", "Sam Houston talks about his life after wrestling", "Sam Houston and Grizzly Smith rebuild their lives", "Cauliflower Alley Club: Remembering those we have lost in 2010", "Beyond the Mat - Pro Wrestling Documentary", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grizzly_Smith&oldid=1142379244, This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 02:14. Use the arrow keys to control your snake and spacebar to pause. According to Jake, Smith had gotten her pregnant three times before turning 18, so it's no surprise she would try escaping that situation through any means necessary. Roberts stated in a shoot interview with Jim Ross that the feud with Savage had to end early because Elizabeth's parents were upset with Savage for not protecting Elizabeth when Roberts kayfabe slapped her. (358) 7.8 1 h 36 min 2015 PG. He'd slither into the ring, pepper . But at 18, he decided to give wrestling a try to prove his toughness to his infamous father Grizzly Smith. Oct 19, 2020 | By Marsha Smith | Los Angeles Review of Books. The initial plan was for Roberts to win the Intercontinental Championship shortly after The Honky Tonk Man's win over Steamboat and begin an angle with "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, but because of the injuries from the guitar shot, the decision was made to keep the belt with The Honky Tonk Man.[14]. His gimmick also mirrored his real life, as Roberts had recently become a born-again Christian and had been preaching around the country.[28]. 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. In the spring of 1994, Roberts returned to the United States to wrestle for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). 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. The following year, Roberts was arrested on charges of possessing drug paraphernalia, namely a crack pipe. 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. But behind the scenes he was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and haunted . . Aurelian Smith (August 6, 1932 - June 12, 2010) was an American professional wrestler better known as Grizzly Smith. After a childhood lived under a cloud of sexual abuse, that night set him on a path to creating one of the best personas in wrestling history while helping build some of the companys top stars in the process. His attack on Randy Savage with a cobra stunned the fans. Shortly after agreeing to the contract, WCW hired a man named Bill Watts to run the place. He said the most important thing was creating new habits to replace his destructive ones, something he didnt feel traditional rehab provided. [2] Together, they won the Georgia version of the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship in 1962 and held them until dropping them to Lenny Montana and Gypsy Joe on November 23 of that year. Throughout the film, he made confessions about his tragic past, including the murder of his sister by her husband's ex-wife and the collapse of his marriage. Jake "the Snake" Roberts was among the most famous professional wrestlers in the world. All garments are made to order, please check size chart before ordering . 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. That in itself is usually a very bad idea, but how it ended took it from "bad idea" to pure tragedy. Moss regained the title the next night in Ashford, Kent, though. He had dropped enough weight that he looked largely like he did in the '80s (minus the mullet, sadly), and appeared lucid as could be. Ultimately, Roberts estimates that he went from making about $3.5million a year to approximately $200,000 a year.[26]. In the summer of 1991 there were a series of televised vignettes featuring the Ultimate Warrior turning to Roberts for help in his feud with The Undertaker. Thanks for contacting us. The team never won the tag titles and went back south. It led to him praying to the devil to help him one day become a bigger wrestling star than his father. The documentary opens with Roberts, who has eight children, fishing on a boat with two of his sons, Derek and Dustin. 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. His most famous son, Jake the Snake, was the result of Smith's rape of his mother. Life as Grizzly Smith's kid wasn't easy, but the man only made it worse when it came to how he made his living: professional wrestling. I try to get involved with the grandkids and Ive just truly been blessed.. Stream WWE on Peacock in the U.S. and on WWE Network everywhere else. The only problem. Once he reached the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in March 1986, he would bring a Burmese python (most were named "Damien") to ringside in a canvas bag. After the match, Roberts placed his snake on Raven. [63] He missed AEW tapings on December 16 and 17, citing this illness. Jake "The Snake" Roberts was afraid of snakes. Jake The Snake Roberts once had a dream other than becoming one of the biggest professional wrestling stars ever. After executing a DDT for the pin, he would place a python on the opponent, to various reactions. He weighed well over 300 pounds and could barely walk. After SummerSlam, Roberts was placed in a feud with Randy Savage. [18] In reality, Roberts' bag contained hamburger meat intended to look like a snake and a small mechanical device to depict movement. He was drunk out of his mind, slurred an incoherent speech about how he cheats at blackjack, and could barely stand up. They won the match and the title belts but were stripped of the championship later that month. The Snake had truly hit bottom, and even then it would take four more years before he found what would save his life. 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