WWE Hall of Famer Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts has said he deliberately broke an opponent’s biceps as a receipt for a stiff clothesline.
Speaking on the ‘DDP Snake Pit‘ podcast with Diamond Dallas Page, Jake recalled working a program with a wrestler who would frustrate him during matches until Roberts made him stop:
“A guy was giving me a clothesline every night and it was freaking ripping my head off, and I was recovering from having neck surgery. And in wrestling, you can make it look like you tore the guy’s head off or you can tear the guy’s head off. And of course, making it look like it is much better because then the guy can sell it properly. When you tear somebody’s head off, there’s no selling it, man.
“I called him out, you know, ‘hey dude, you’re killing me. What the hell?’ And he looked at me and said, ‘well maybe it’s time you get out of the ring’. So the next time we wrestled, he clotheslined me and I did a little maneuver and snapped his bicep in half with intent. And when he went down, he was grabbing his arm, the bicep rolled up on his shoulder, it looked pretty awesome.”
When the injured opponent pleaded for the finish of the match, Roberts started squeezing the damaged muscle, saying he’s “not proud of it.”
After problems with substance abuse, Roberts seems to be in a better place now thanks to his work with DDP, and regularly appears for AEW.
