Jake Roberts

Roster
 3-Having the snake bite Ricky Steamboat's arm

## Midcard to Main Event(1985-1986)

Jake Roberts debuted at Superstars 2 wanting the Intercontinental title, Tito Santana came out and they had a match which Roberts won, at SNME May they had another match where Jake Roberts became the first Intercontinental champion, he proceeded to retain the title against Barry Windham. At Summerslam 1985, Roberts defeated King of the Ring winner Jimmy Snuka in a steel cage match, after that, Snuka tried to join Roberts but Roberts wasn't accepting that, Snuka forces it wanting to help Robert whether he wants it or not, this leads to Snuka accidentally costing Roberts the IC title at Superstars 18 to Jim Duggan which infuriated Roberts even further. Somehow, Roberts still accepts to team with Snuka for 1 match only in a Survivor Series elimination match, they win it and go on to have a NO1 contenders match for the tag titles at SNME December where Roberts leaves Snuka and reveals this was all a ploy so Snuka could feel what it's like losing a big chance and he wants to make sure he'll end Snuka's career. They have a loser leaves WWF no DQ match at Wrestlemania 2 which Roberts wins and Snuka is forced to leave WWF.

In the buildup to G1 Finals, Jake Roberts wanted the WWF title feeling like the IC title was now beneath him and said he was coming for Savage, Savage called Roberts nothing more than a overhyped rookie who should stay in the midcard division. At G1 Finals, Roberts defeated Savage to win the WWF title after Roddy Piper distracted the champion, Savage got his rematch in the Halloween Special in a tables match and Piper helped him yet again as they formed an alliance, Roberts' reign was short at 28 days as he was defeated by G1 winner Ricky Steamboat at Survivor Series. At SNME December he got his rematch in a fatal 4 way but was the first man eliminated by Steamboat in 10 seconds.

Jake Roberts argued with Roddy Piper saying he should have been there to help him and Piper proclaimed that if Roberts wasn't a terrible wrestler, he'd still be holding the WWF title, this led to their alliance falling out and it was great promo after great promo, at Royal Rumble 1987 Roddy Piper defeated Roberts in a street fight match.

Roberts blamed Steamboat for taking everything he had from him and they started feuding again, there was a shocking moment during the buildup as Roberts tied Steamboat to the ropes and let him be bit by his snake, at Wrestlemania Ricky defeated Roberts to become the NO1 Contender to the WWF title.

## Snake's Pit(1987-1989)

Jake Roberts got an IC title shot at SNME June and was the only man to refuse to tap out to the sharpshooter during Bret's 728 day title reign as Bret had to finish him off with a piledriver.

At Summerslam 1987, Roddy Piper and Jake Roberts attacked The Naturals and took their spot winning the World Tag Team Titles against Demolition in a shocking reunion. Snake's Pit would rapidly become the most popular tag team defending the titles against The Naturals and Demolition. Their reign ended at Survivor Series against The Islanders lasting 84 days.

Snake's Pit started taunting Tito Santana because his tag partner Rick Martel was injured, they tried to get Tito to join them and form a group but Tito respected Martel too much. When Rick Martel returned, they had a tag team match at Royal Rumble where Strike Force defeated Snake's Pit. Roberts was involved in the 16 men tournament for the WWF title at Wrestlemania 4 and was eliminated in the quarter finals by WWF Champion Ted Dibiase, Roddy Piper was injured during this time and Roberts went back to singles action.

At SNME May, Mr.Perfect defeated Jake Roberts, Roberts was involved in 1988's MOTY in the Money in the Bank match but failed to win, he was also involved in the King of the Ring but was eliminated in the semi finals by Mr.Perfect. At Summerslam, Roberts won an 8 men battle royal to become NO1 contender to the WWF title, Roddy Piper returned in the same show. At SNME September, Roberts was defeated by WWF Champion Ultimate Warrior in 5 minutes, in the same show he tried to save Piper from an injury by Bad News Brown but was too late. At G1 Finals Bad News Brown defeated Roberts as he continued his quest to beat every former WWF Champion, Piper returned after G1 Finals and at Survivor Series he, Jake Roberts, Hulk Hogan and Haku lost to Bad News Brown, One Man Gang, Harley Race and The Mountie. Piper still swore to get revenge on BNB and at Wrestlemania 5 he defeated him with Jake Roberts on his corner.

At King of the Ring 1989, Brainbusters wanted a legit challenge for the tag titles so they challenged Snake's Pit who were defeated, Piper went to film a movie and Roberts got some time off as well due to this, they only returned at Survivor Series where they and Demolition were defeated by Boris Zhukov, Nikolai Volkoff and Colossal Connection. Roberts and Piper mutually agreed to part ways but challenged a world class tag team for their last match together, at Wrestlemania 6 Brainbusters defeated Snake's Pit

## Failing to fit in the New Generation(1990-1992)

Roberts failed to fit in the New Generation moniker as he wasn't used as much during 1990, he felt like the new generation was getting cocky so he joined Dibiase's team. At Survivor Series, the Old Generation(Roberts, Roddy Piper, Ted Dibiase and Jimmy Snuka) defeated the New Generation(Rick Martel, Undertaker, Shane Douglas and Jim Neidhart) mainly because Roberts and Piper still had really good teamwork together. Due to the Survivor Series Lottery, he got a tag title shot with former rival Jimmy Snuka but they lost to Demolition after Undertaker, pissed at his loss, chokeslammed Roberts. Jake issued a challenge to The Undertaker at Wrestlemania but he would be defeated.

Roberts was involved in 1991's King of the Ring but was eliminated in the semi finals by British Bulldog. At Survivor Series, Ted Dibiase chose him as one of his partners because of his help last year but him, Bret Hart and Money Inc would be defeated by Rick Martel, Koko B.Ware, Undertaker and Bob Backlund, Roberts had had enough and chairshotted Undertaker backstage. At Royal Rumble, Undertaker defeated Roberts and afterwards he bowed down to him having joined forces in a weird turn, during the next few weeks Jake tried to adopt Undertaker's whole shtick by coming out to gongs and lights going out, they challenged Legion of Doom to a match at Wrestlemania 8 but the joining forces was just a ruse to play mind games on Taker as he DDT'd him during the match, Taker immediatly got up and did a triple chokeslam, one hand for Roberts and the other for both of LOD as he got the win handicapped.

After this loss, Roberts played more of a backstage role not showing up all of 1992 as he tried to figure out his role in the New Generation.

## Mind games on Smackdown, intercontinental champion and departure(1993-1994)

Roberts returned in the smackdown after Wrestlemania 9 attacking Randy Savage with a chair by Sycho Sid's orders. Roberts was announced as the newest member of Empire but Jake revealed that he only attacked Savage because Empire gave them a lot of money for it, he's only here to defeat The Undertaker and win the world heaviweight title.

Randy Savage understood Roberts' reasoning and shook hands with him but Roberts DDT's him right after, Roberts says that while he only came here for Taker, he didn't come to make friends either, he will do anything to put Savage out of action since he's a contender for the title. He tried to win the MITB but failed as Doink the Clown choked him out, Roberts tried to align himself with Empire just to fight Doink but Sid was smarter than that and turned on Roberts before he could turn on him, at In Your House 8 Roberts defeated Sid, in that show Randy Savage an Miss Elizabeth's wedding took place but had to be stopped as there was a snake on the cake which bit Savage right on the arm. Savage was furious at Roberts but Roberts was just making sure there were no contenders left, Heenan still made him compete in a triple threat NO1 Contendership against Sid and an injured arm Savage which Roberts easily won. He feuded with Undertaker as both men did great promos against each other, at Summerslam 1993, Savage interfered on Roberts vs Taker to make sure Roberts wouldn't win, Roberts damaged Savage's arm even further putting him out of action.

Roberts was ok with losing to Undertaker and he was happy that he had gotten rid of Randy Savage with people wondering if it was his plan all along to get in everyone's heads, but he starts challenging intercontinental champion Razor Ramon. At G1 Finals, Roberts won the intercontinental title and Savage returned with a bandaged arm but he took his bandage off and brawled with Roberts even putting him on the announcer's table and elbow dropping him to confirm he's completely healed, Savage doesn't care about the Intercontinental Championship, he's probably nearing the end of his career and just wants a match against Roberts, Roberts accepts and promises to leave Savage alone afterwards, he's done with his mind games but that's a lie as the next week a snake shows up on Savage's locker room. At Royal Rumble 1994, Randy Savage defeated Roberts to end this feud.

After Roddy Piper became Smackdown's new GM, Roberts came out demanding to know who was his challenger at Wrestlemania, Hakushi came out and had a match with Roberts which ended in a DQ chairshot by Roberts who refused for him to be his challenger. The week afterwards Mr.Perfect debuted on Smackdown and won a fatal 5 way to face Roberts at Wrestlemania, they talked about their matches in 1989 when Mr.Perfect debuted on WWF and kept defeating Roberts but Perfect wants Roberts in an extreme rules match this time, Roberts accepts going back to his extreme rules match at Wrestlemania 2 against Jimmy Snuka. At Wrestlemania 10, Roberts managed to defeat Perfect and retain the title

Roberts was traded to RAW after Wrestlemania and on his first night he lost the Intercontinental title to Rick Martel, Martel and Roberts mutually agreed that their next match would have the stipulation if Roberts won, Martel would leave RAW; if Martel won, Roberts would leave WWF. At RAW 121, Rick Martel defeated Jake Roberts to retain the intercontinental title and Roberts was oficially out of WWF.

## WCW(1997)

At Nitro 160, Roddy Piper got a CITL qualifier match but he didn't have a partner until Jake Roberts made his debut and they reunited Snake's Pit as they defeated Dancing Fools, Roberts had one last match at Nitro 162 where he defeated Chavo Guerrero, Booker T and Johnny Grunge in a fatal 4 way, this result made people mad as Roberts was an old-timer who had been reported to have already gotten drunk twice at house shows. At Bash at the Beach, Snake's Pit were scheduled to be in the Cash in the Ladder tag match but Roberts got drunk a third time and fired from WCW as they were removed from the match

## Post-retirement appearences(1997, 1999)

Jake Roberts made a surprise return in the 1997 Royal Rumble match at number 22 but was eliminated by Shawn Michaels.

He was inducted into the 1997 Hall of Fame by Ricky Steamboat where he said he wanted to try and return to WWF at least in a part time schedule as he wanted to fight the new stars, this led to nothing as Roberts joined WCW in June.

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(1 time)
* Intercontinental Championship(2 times)
* World Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Roddy Piper
* 24/7 Championship(1 time)
* Match of the Year(1988) vs Hulk Hogan, Honky Tonk Man, Sting, Jacques Rougeau, Haku, Mr.Perfect and Ultimate Warrior