Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer “The Snake” Jake Roberts who is also a former two times NWA World Television champion recently looked back at being troubled by a stalker and revealed how dealt with this awkward situation.
Jake Roberts is vastly considered as one of the most underrated stars in professional wrestling history. He was extremely talented but unfortunately he never got the right treatment from the world of professional wrestling, not from any promotion ever.
Jake Roberts Remembers Dealing With A Stalker
He started his professional wrestling career way back in 1974 and had a really long career in the world of pro wrestling. In 1986 he joined WWE for the first time in career and spent 6 years in the promotion. He featured in feuds with some of the biggest names in WWE history. He even faced the Undertaker at WrestleMania VIII.
In 1992 he left WWE and had a very short career in WCW. In 1996 he returned in WWE for only one year time. Since 1999 he is active on the independent circuit and he still makes sporadic appearances for independent rings. He appeared in WWE for a number of occasions too. In 2014 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Roberts has joined the All Elite Wrestling upon the formation of the promotion and he is going quite strong. He is still active in the independent circuit and he is doing really good in the ring even at the age of 67.
“The Snake” Jake Roberts who is also a former two times NWA World Television champion recently spoke on his DDP Snake Pit podcast where he looked back at being troubled by a stalker and revealed how dealt with this awkward situation. He said;
“Plenty of stalkers, but the weirdest and worst was there was a guy that looked something like me and he was following me around the country. He must have had an incredible booking agent or whatever because this guy was doing personal appearances as me. Like if we wrestled in Phoenix on Tuesday, he did the appearance on Wednesday after we’d already left out. So he was doing that.”
“Then I get a phone call from Vince asking me, ‘What the f**k have I done? Jake, I can’t believe you did this.’ Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.’ ‘What are you talking about Vince? I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ ‘You married his fu**ing girl in Detroit?’ ‘What?’ This guy married a girl in Detroit, went on a honeymoon with her, drugged her, robbed her, and left her, as me.
“Just so happens, she was connected to the mafia. They called WWF telling me that I was a marked man and they were gonna fu**ing kill me. So I had to carry paperwork with me. I’m like, ‘Vince, I don’t feel good about this. It’s not like I’m gonna ask a guy with a gun to please read this paper before you fu**ing shoot me because I don’t think he’s gonna read it. He’s gonna shoot, boom, done.’”
“Then the guy went to Baltimore, and while in Baltimore, he called the hospital and convinced them to send a masseuse over to him that he had severe back spasms and couldn’t be moved. When the girl got there, he tried to rape her. Then they finally caught him. He was at a bar and he drank a lot, posing as me, and walked out with a $300 bar tab. They called the police and he got pulled over, and they caught him for DUI. Then he claimed to be me, but could not produce any paperwork. I don’t know what happened to him. I know he went to jail.”
H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription