Jake The Snake Roberts

Nothing compares to old school WWF, I spent the better part of my childhood watching wrestling, back in the day i used to get hyped how WWF used to book there matches I think it was because you didnt know what was going to happen didnt wrestling seem real then? I still watch Monday night Raw but its not the same. Wrestling has become stale maybe its the investment of character that is lost nowadays, granted wrestling fans of today like any other fans have the Internet at there disposal to get extra or background information, back in the day we didn't have that all we had was what we saw on television. So I was reading on twitter today a discussion btw Pete Rosenberg ,Pumpkin head and Wale about the Blind fold match btw Jake the Snake and Rick Martel at Wrestlemaina 7. So after that I had to re-watch the Jake The Snake DVD Pick Your Poison. The best part of the DvD is the documentary. Jake had a crazy childhood, his dad was dating his grandmother when he had sex with her 13 year old daughter. Jake was raised by his grandparents on his father's side. His grandfather was an alcoholic. When his grandmother died, he moved in with his father. While his father was on the road, his step-mother tried to seduce him. He then moved in with his mother and step-father. His younger sister married a middle aged man while she was still in her teens. She was murdered by the man's ex-wife and her body was never recovered.

Jake the Snake Roberts was that guy even thought he never won a WWF championship. How can you hate Jake Roberts the dude created one of the greatest finishing moves in history the DDT. When asked what the initials DDT stood for, he replied "The End." Throughout his career he was known being a wordsmith Jake Roberts promos,were intense his charisma had underlying dark tones, and i believe he is a founding father of using psychology in matches. Jake Roberts would be kinda like that cool but creepy uncle in your family that hangs with snakes and can kick ur ass if you piss him off.

This is the incident that led to the blindfold match between Roberts and Martel at Wrestlemania VII



WWF WrestleMania 7 Jake The Snake Roberts vs The Model Rick The Model Martel


God this match goes to show how much the wrestling has gone to shit. When the crowd goes ape shit over a match that only had 2 maybe 3 wrestling moves thats something amazing. A whole episode of Raw now can not create that much energy.

lets throw in a jake Roberts Promo for good measure...