WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts appeared on an episode of his Snake Pit podcast, where he discussed several topics, including the formula of working a match as a heel.
Roberts said, “I think the heel has to be on top more often. Simply because you’re gonna build a match, and to build that match the heel has to be on top.”
On profusely getting busted open by Randy “Macho Man’ Savage:
“No, but it’s been done to me… Yeah, just an accident. Savage got me over the eyebrow, got me for about 26 stitches, something like that. Thirty seconds into a match… It was a cage match, and he ran up the cage, and I went up out after him. And he just swung back with that elbow, and he got me.”
On his reaction to it:
“Ain’t nothing to it, man. It just happened, you know?”
On working in hardcore and violent matches:
“It’s alright with me, man. They’re gimmick matches so it makes them pretty easy to do if you’re smart. A bunkhouse match basically is just a taped fist match with blue jeans on, you know? Basically the same damn match, except you got blue jeans on. Of course, you do have a belt that does come off, and you use the belt to whip somebody with. That’s just one of the tools you have in the ring. So use it.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
