Jake Roberts was a recent guest on the Talk Is Jericho podcast where he discussed his career in the wrestling business.
He had joined the writing team in WWE in the ’90s. Like most, Roberts had issues with Shawn Michaels and how The Kliq (Michaels, Triple H, Sean Waltman, and Scott Hall) took over the company with politicking.
“When he brought me back in ‘96 he told me, ‘Jake, look around and see where you think the problem is.’ I said, ‘it’s real simple, man, the inmates are running the asylum, The Kliq.’ The Kliq nearly killed the business,” he said. “Everybody says how great they were, well let me tell you something, they drove it to the ground, whatever.”
When the drama took place between Michaels and Bret Hart in 1997, he recalled telling Vince McMahon to fire them.
“I used to have to sit when we were writing television when Shawn and Bret were throwing their pissy fights against each other. We would be trying to write television, and Vince would get on the phone for three hours with those two cats. Trying to get them to wrestle each other,” he said. “I said, ‘Vince, what are you doing? Fire the mother****ers, man, tell them to hit the f***ing road.’”
