WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts took to an episode of his Snake Pit podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including Dynamite Kid.
Roberts said, “Oh, he was unbelievable, man. You know, just a breath of fresh air. Just something that you’d never seen before. The things that he was doing, you’d never seen them before. And in fact, when I left Calgary I tried to get Bill Watts to hire him. And Bill Watts asked me how big he was and I told him. He said, ‘Are you f**king kidding me?’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m not kidding you man, this guy is nothing but money.’ But Bill Watts blew him off.”
On his interactions with Kid:
“He was alright with me. He was alright with me, in fact his apartment was above mine.”
On working with Hercules Ayala:
“I do remember him. And Hercules Ayala also went to the Mid-South. He went to Mid-South after he left Calgary. Yeah, he’d been around. He knew what he was doing in the ring.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
