During a recent edition of his “The Snake Pit” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jake Roberts recalled Andre The Giant ribbing him in matches, his career-threatening neck injury, and other topics.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Andre The Giant ribbing him in matches: “Oh yeah, he’d sit on me and fart on me and things like that. You know, he used to — it’s just amazing how long a giant can fart. He dropped 30-second bombs on my a*s.”
On working with a serious neck injury in the late 1980s: “[I waited because of] Fear. I was scared that if I got out of the ring that I wouldn’t be able to get back in. And you know, things were going so well in ’87, to step away from it just seemed, you know, ‘What am I doing stepping away from now? I can’t step away from it now. It’s too good.’ You know, things were just too good. So I buried it, you know, which was a foolish mistake. Because you know, I leaned heavily on pain pills and alcohol just to get by, and that’s not a good thing.”
On what happened to make him address it: “It just got to the point that I couldn’t lift my left arm. You know, I was cheating in the matches to, I’d sling my arm up on the guy’s shoulder and tell him to work my arm the rest of the match. That way, I didn’t have to lift it. You know, I could baby it and everything else. So I used a little psychology there. That way I don’t have to use it. So, thank God I punch with my right hand.”
