Jake The Snake Roberts announces retirement

Butch Cassidy

Jake's hanging up the snake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ImhrcaY0

I don't know what Jake got up after his WWF DVD a few years ago. Was he able to kick the scag does anyone know?

Jake The Snake scared the hell out of me during his slightly demonic heel run of 1991. That snake chomping down on Randy Savage's arm was one of the first images of wrestling I ever saw and years later in a basketball arena I totally marked out like a spa when I saw him at the IWW show.

D2D

What a promo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzwIo5O99vc

McConnon

Only got round to watching his DVD a few nights ago but jesus christ.. they don't make them like Jake Roberts any more.

I realise he's had some problems in the past but if he said good-bye to the drink and drugs he could teach the younger wrestlers of today so much.

Here's hoping he'll make it to the HOF one day!

Dean820

About time.

flahavaj

He is in his hole retiring. No wrestler ever retires until they're dead.

He'll be flashing his c*ck to crowded gymnasiums while demented in the ring again in no time.:pac:

Butch Cassidy

I don't know bout that Flah. It looks like it was one of these gymnasium crowds he's announced it to. Usually wrestlers milk their "retirements" for all they can. If he's kicked the smack and was able to put a few quid away then maybe it is the last of the snake.

Maybe he's got a certain famous "Hall" lined up or around the corner or something...

flahavaj

Butch Cassidy wrote: »

I don't know bout that Flah. It looks like it was one of these gymnasium crowds he's announced it to. Usually wrestlers milk their "retirements" for all they can. If he's kicked the smack and was able to put a few quid away then maybe it is the last of the snake.

Maybe he's got a certain famous "Hall" lined up or around the corner or something...

I for one never believe any wrestler when he says he's done. If they thought there was a pay cheque in it form them they'd all come back in a flash - and repeatedly do so.

Butch Cassidy

flahavaj wrote: »

I for one never believe any wrestler when he says he's done. If they thought there was a pay cheque in it form them they'd all come back in a flash - and repeatedly do so.

Is there still going to be a pay cheque in it for Jake though? I too am forever skeptical about these retirement announcements especially when the wrestler doesn't have a nestegg to retire on like Shawn Michaels* does. Maybe Jake will get that office job in WWE HQ or maybe he does have a few quid put by.




*incidently enough I think Michaels probably did the retirement gig just about the best way you can. In your final year revive a rubbish stable for the purpose of selling merchandise, do a DVD and then headline a WrestleMania.

flahavaj

Butch Cassidy wrote: »

Is there still going to be a pay cheque in it for Jake though? I too am forever skeptical about these retirement announcements especially when the wrestler doesn't have a nestegg to retire on like Shawn Michaels* does. Maybe Jake will get that office job in WWE HQ or maybe he does have a few quid put by.




*incidently enough I think Michaels probably did the retirement gig just about the best way you can. In your final year revive a rubbish stable for the purpose of selling merchandise, do a DVD and then headline a WrestleMania.

I'm probably over-cynical, but I reckon Michaels will be back as well, not anytime soon, but 2-3 years down the line. These guys can't help themselves - once you have the bug its hard to shake.

Gerard.C

Michaels will be back to fight Daniel Bryan at Mania in 2/3 years. IMO

flahavaj

Gerard.C wrote: »

Michaels will be back to fight Daniel Bryan at Mania in 2/3 years. IMO

I'd be doing a fair amount of this if that happened.:pac:

Gerard.C

flahavaj wrote: »

I'd be doing a fair amount of this if that happened.:pac:

Good lord wouldnt we all

geeky

Butch Cassidy wrote: »

Maybe he's got a certain famous "Hall" lined up or around the corner or something...

Would be well-deserved too IMO. Even if he was never a main-eventer, he was such an iconic character that he should be recognised. Would be absolutely wonderful to see him and Savage* go in the same year.

From the sounds of him in the speech, he's completely beat up, so I'm actually inclined to think it's real. I hope he's set himself up, or has it together mentally to take on some creative position. The fact that he didn't seem off his face or ramble during the speech is probs a good sign.

Props to D2D for the 'Legends of Wrestling' promo :pac:. the sad thing is that, had he been sober, it would have been absolutely ace: 'You don't wanna play cards with me - because I'll cheat'. Even half-cut he can come up with some great stuff :pac:


*now he's been able to establish some kind of working relationship with the 'E.

Wolfe Tone

Probably doing a Foley esk "retirement" here.

Riddle101

I didn't even know he was wrestling. But meh, it's not so surprising either. But I would have liked him to have one last run in WWE. Maybe fued with Randy Orton or something. I definately want to see Jake in WWE's Hall Of Fame someday.

sky88

just watched his dvd on youtube holy crap he was awesome at promos i forgot just how good he was

Butch Cassidy

flahavaj wrote: »

I'm probably over-cynical, but I reckon Michaels will be back as well, not anytime soon, but 2-3 years down the line. These guys can't help themselves - once you have the bug its hard to shake.

Maybe he will but the key difference between Shawn Michaels and just about every other wrestler ever to retire is that Michaels stayed around a few years extra working big time matches so he must surely have a lot of money to retire on. Other wrestlers like Flair or Foley didn't - I think Flair blew his on some failed finance business or something? and Foley was pretty young considering.

Terry Funk is another that didn't seem to have built up the nest egg the likes of a Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin or Undertaker will have.

geeky wrote: »

Would be well-deserved too IMO. Even if he was never a main-eventer, he was such an iconic character that he should be recognised. Would be absolutely wonderful to see him and Savage* go in the same year.

As far asI know there are some cynical people on internet wrestling forums who don't think Roberts is worth the steam of their piss cause he never headlined a Mania and never held a WWF world title. Yeah sure his matches were uniform and whatever but christ those promos! Though some people dismiss him as merely a promo guy.

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

Probably doing a Foley esk "retirement" here.

Absolutely not. Couldn't be further from the truth. Mick Foley retired in 2000 as his body was beaten to shit. Roberts had debuted in 75 I think and Foley some time in 1983. Foley tried to retire early - a virtual oxymoron in wrestling unless you end up paralysed - so he could spend time with his kids while they were still young and were of playable age. He obviously still had mileage left and there was money to be made.

Foley tried retiring on a high at WrestleMania after having made a good few quid that previous year - headlining with the Rock for the WWF title plus endorsements and stuff and then the Cactus Jack return. Jake Roberts has just announced his retirement to a PE hall of about a hundred people or something. Big money got Foley back into the ring whereas Jake Roberts has been wrestling in basketball arenas for years. Foley's a family man whereas Roberts has/had a few addictions to feed.

They're not the same.

Riddle101 wrote: »

I didn't even know he was wrestling. But meh, it's not so surprising either. But I would have liked him to have one last run in WWE. Maybe fued with Randy Orton or something. I definately want to see Jake in WWE's Hall Of Fame someday.

I'd have liked maybe a small run myself. They had Randy squash him around the time his DVD came out I think. I'm sure he's got at least one or two good promos left in him maybe.


Anyway time will tell if he's finished. I doubt either TNA or WWE will be chomping at the bit to get him back in to wrestling but a HoF spot must surely be on the cards....

Wolfe Tone

Foley has to be loaded being the cheap **** he is.

Butch Cassidy

I'd say after 2000 he had enough money for any normal man to rest on comfortably. He'd had a number 1 book, TV ads for some tinned foods and other stuff. Yeah he was grand. Then either he wanted more, blew it on his gym, his wife blew it or they wanted more money for the subsequent child they had.

I wasn't suggesting he was hard up but if you compare Foley's retirement in 2000 to Shawn Michaels' retirement last year one certainly eclipsed the other both in terms of figures and significance. Or did anyone ever watch 'Mania 2000