fall of a hero

[CJDude]

Ok, by now you have probably figured out that i am a huge Mark for pro-wrestling (a mark is a smart fan that knows about the inside of the buissness). I love to watch old matches and old shows, i like to see the old boys go to work and one of my faverit old boys to watch is perhaps one of the best to never hold a world title Jake the Snake Robberts. Now i have met Jake, and he is a sad sorry shell of his former self, in his hay day he had one of the best minds in the buissness, now he is a drunk and a drug additctt.

When i met Jake he was a cool guy, i was wrestling on a pre show card, thats a few matches that happed during the day at a big show, we where at the Doncaster Dome in Doncaster England, Jake watched our matches and came out for a Q&A/shoot interview with the 30 or so in attendance. Man he was smart as hell. we talkd breifly when he came back stage, he told me that he enjoyd my work, but i should be more aggressive in my comeback, some thing i took onbored and have never forgotten, hell its not every day one of the best wrestles alive gave you advice right? well he was wrestling on that nights main show, in the main event no less, he spent the afternoon getting drunk and demanding that one of the local wrestlers score him drugs. This is sadly the real Jake the Snake, and their are thousands of similar storys floating round out their about him but when it was time for his match and if he was partnerd with a talented wrestler they where usually able to pull out a servisable match and send the crowd home happy, which troothfully is what you mostly want out of the old guys on the indys.

so fast fowerds a few years, Jake has been to rehab. he spent some thing like 6 months in an Atlanta Rehab facility paid for by the WWE, who offer free drugs councilling and rehab for any one who has been contracted to them over the years. He did really well their, he got sober and he started to think like he used to, he was apparently being considerd for a position on the WWE's creative staff. and since getitng out of rehab the rings of the US indipendent wrestling curcit has been blessed once again by one of the most creative minds in the buissness.

untill, that is, last friday night. Jake was set to main event a year aniversary of a company i dont even know the name of, some where in ohio. Jake reportadly showd up early and was looking good. he even gave a speach at the production meeting before the show telling the regulars that they had a huge oppertunity to get people talking about the organisation and draw some new fans out of the reported 5000 people in attendance, all their to see Jake. it is hear that we wave good bye to sober Jake and Drunk Jake reares his ugly head for the first time since getting out of rehab. He suposadly downs several miniture bottles of vodka and goes front of house to the bar and has some drinks with the fans. When they finally get him back stage he forgets every thing that was layd out for the match and starts to lay some new stuff out, his opponant that night all ready seeing the writeing on the wall goes to find the promoter telling him Jakes wasted, if i can get a match out of him i will, if not im pinning him and getting the hell out of dodge. Meinwile the semi main event is going on, some sort of concept match with 4 or 5 guys compiting over the company title, jake goes out to teh anounce position and calls one of the wrestlers in the ring an big Ni&%*$.

so match time come jake comes out and gets on the stick, and he is so fuckd he cant even talk properly let alone get into the ring, which takes him 2 attempts to lift his leg over the middle rope. His opponant comes out and they lock up... nothing! the guy hits Jake... nothing, jake is not selling any thing. the guy seeing the writing on the wall shoots jake down to the mat and demands out loud to the point you can hear it on camra to the ref to count jake out. 123 match time 30 seconds.

Jake then drops trow and shows the fans his one eye trouser snake, their are kids in that audiance!

i cant belive it, i obviusly wasnt their, but i have seen the vidio and read the reports from the net marks and even the bloggs from the wrestlers involved in the dabacle. Jake Roberts was a hero of mine, he went from hero to zero in litterally 4 minits, i am actually hart broken!


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[Markme]

omg... that guy seams like a complete douche now.
he needs to get his self respect and his mind back.