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 meeting Fritz Von Erich.
Roberts said, “Yeah, I met him when I was a kid. My father wrestled for him, and, Yeah, I’d met him.”
He commented on the reputation of the Von Erichs not being reliable.
“It was crazy. You didn’t know what the hell you were going to do, and you didn’t know why you were going to do it. Most frustrating time of my life. Absolutely, without a doubt. You couldn’t follow anything. Because the boys were f***ing doing whatever they wanted. And usually, that meant your shoulders to the mat. One, two, three.”
Roberts recalled how the Von Erichs treated him.
“They were like little kids, man. They were like. They were like 15-year-olds. Oh, man. You know, they didn’t have, they didn’t understand responsibility. They didn’t understand anything. They were just young, very young. And they’d been pushed into this position and the demands were huge. Huge. They didn’t want the responsibility. None of them did.”
Roberts also talked about if he resented the Von Erichs.
“Yeah, absolutely. You know, you’re out there busting your ass and you’re worried that you’re going to get hurt because they’re f***ed up, you know? And. It’s just really hard. I mean, I remember one instance. Ric Flair came in, and he was wrestling. In Fort Worth, and Carey was so f***ed up. And he couldn’t even put his boots on. so they were laced. They laced his boots up for him. And sitting in the ring. He was wobbling and everything else. And the way they got through it is they said that he had 105 fever, but he didn’t want to let the fans down.”
You can check out Roberts’ complete podcast in the video below.
