You likely remember Jake ‘the Snake’ from his time in the WWE. Jake Roberts was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, even though he never won a championship in the company, showing how special he was. In a recent interview with Chris Featherstone of Fox Sports, Jake Roberts spoke about a wide variety of topics. Here were the highlights of the interview, including some interesting comments about Vince McMahon and fellow WWE Hall of Famer Sting.
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Jake Roberts says that he was a big supporter of Steve Austin when he was struggling to find his place in the WWE. He says Vince McMahon at first only thought of Austin as a midcard guy at best:
“I’d been helping Steve for a while, and he would call me and tell me what was going on. I was a big supporter of Steve before anybody else was. In fact, Vince (McMahon) had told me that this guy is midcard at best. I disagreed with him; I said, this guy is gonna be your next ‘blow it out of the water’ guy. I hate when I’m right, but boy, I was right” (Source: Fox Sports).
Jake also said he didn’t enjoy working with Sting in WCW who he felt like was mailing it in during their matches:
“He was very lackadaisical, didn’t want to ramp it up. I didn’t enjoy it. Bottom line. I didn’t enjoy it. It’s one thing to go out there and tip your hat and go at it and try to have a great night. But when you go out there and you know the guy across from you just doesn’t have his heart in it, [get out]! It’s a shame” (Source: Fox Sports).
You can read the full interview here.
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