In the latest episode of his podcast, “DDP Snake Pit,” Jake Roberts covered a wide variety of topics.
During it, the WWE Hall of Famer discussed the most excruciating injury he sustained while competing, which was a torn pectoral muscle sustained while attempting a clothesline against Andre the Giant.
“I remember going down and I thought I broke my shoulder,” said Roberts. “I’m just holding my shoulder and I’m wiggling my fingers, you know, trying to get the feeling back in them; and Andre reached down, and grabbed me by the hand and jerked me to my feet, which stretched that back out again. At which point, I decide I’m going to sleep. I passed out from the pain and when I woke up, Andre’s got me in a bearhug and he’s singing to me.”
Roberts also commented on suffering a broken sternum (twice) in two matches against Vader.
“He crushed me in the corner and broke my sternum,” said Roberts. “A broken sternum is real painful because it takes a long time to heal; and if you sneeze or cough, you want to rip your eyeballs out. It hurts so bad.”
