Jake "The Snake" Roberts Talks About Buying TNA, Rumble Return, and More

Wrestling Legend Jake “The Snake” Roberts recently joined Wrestling’s Glory Days Weekly to discuss his desire to purchase TNA Wrestling, why he really wants to be in the 2014 Royal Rumble, road stories about the Undertaker, and more.

On Buying TNA Wrestling:

“I want to run an Indigogo and raise the money to buy that son of a b*tch and do it right. Not to be in competition with Vince, but to do wrestling the way I liked it. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won’t. But, now I hear the guy from Smashing Pumpkins is snatching it, so maybe I should just buy the band Smashing Pumpkins and go on with my life and start singing. I got all the thoughts, bro. There ain’t nobody better at that. I would make it simple, there would be good guys and there would be bad guys. There wouldn’t be no bullsh*t and there wouldn’t be twenty minute interviews. We would actually, ‘rassle. the world needs it, man. “

Why a Return at the Royal Rumble is So Important to Roberts:

“All I can hope for right now, you know, I’m trying to get myself in shape to do the Royal Rumble, one last time. You know, I’d like to go out on my own terms with my head held high, I think I deserve that. I’ve had thirty seven years in the ring and it was a wonderful life, it was crazy, insane, I did a lot of things wrong, but I did a lot of things right too, brother. “

Road Stories About Traveling with the Undertaker in the Early 90’s:

“He [The Undertaker] came to me and he says, ‘I hear you know all the great strip joints,’ I said, ‘yes, I do, worldwide,’ he says, ‘I’ll travel with you’. so, he tried to hang with me, and it’s a chemical world, so I was cheating. After about three or four weeks, we went to TV and Vince looked at him and said, ‘Mark, I don’t think you need the makeup today, you look like hell. Jake is killing you and a few days later, he was in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. Finally, I had to smarten him up and tell him how I was doing it, and we then became very, very good friends. I have all the respect in the world for Mark. He has earned everything that he has gotten. He is a unique character, I love the fact that he upholds kayfabe, just a great guy, and of course he was there for the stripper times with me, and we did it well. “

You can listen to the entire interview below.