WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts took to an episode of his Snake Pit podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including the WCW angle where “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair was sent to a mental hospital.
Roberts said, “[I thought] ‘Wow.’ They actually put that on the air? What the f**k, man? I’ve never seen anything worse. That was just f***ing horrid… Are you guys forgetting we’re supposed to be wrestling? That’s the whole idea, this is a wrestling show. So let’s show wrestling. I’ve never been a fan of wasted time and God damn, that was wasted f***ing time.”
On WCW making Jim Duggan clean toilets for a storyline in 1999 where they tried to have him denounce the USA for Canada:
“Some sick f***ers out there man that just want to bring you down, you know? Let’s think about that for a moment. That does nothing to promote wrestling, it does nothing to promote Jim Duggan. All you’re doing is laughing at him. He’s cleaning the s***ter. What the f**k, man? What does that have to do with anything?”
“They wound up, you know, making him go to Canada, denounced the USA. That’s just ignorance. You’re trying to destroy a character and guess what? It didn’t f***ing work, because the people didn’t buy it. That’s just desperate people, doing desperate — they were trying to make him quit. That’s what they were trying to do. He had a nice contract, and they were trying to make him quit. Didn’t work.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
