‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage was immensely paranoid regarding the infamous snake-bite segment he was a part of, Jake Roberts has revealed.
The segment in question saw Roberts use his snake Damian to bite Savage. Prior to the segment, Roberts had shown backstage that the snake was not venomous.
On a recent edition of the “Dark Side of the Ring: Unheard” podcast, Roberts recalled Savage getting ill not long after and blaming the snake. He said,
“Randy convinced himself that he was getting sick. Then he wounds up getting a staph infection, so his arm blows up. [He’s] like, ‘God damn that f**king snake, look at this f**king sh*t man,’ so in his own mind convinced himself that, ‘That f**king snake had done that,’ wasn’t the f**king snake that did that Randy. You don’t get staph from a snake, you get staph from dirt.”
Savage passed away in 2011 at the age of 58. These days, Roberts works for All Elite Wrestling and recently re-signed with the promotion.
