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Backstage Secrets of Jake 'The Snake' Roberts at WWE WrestleMania

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the real reason behind Jake "The Snake" Roberts' absence from WWF television during the 90s. Discover the backstage story involving his personal struggles and how Ted DiBiase was part of the storyline to write him off. This is a fascinating look into a difficult period of wrestling history and wwe stories.

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0:00.0

Of course, you want to see this match.

0:01.1

I wanted to see that.

0:02.0

These two are the greatest in the golden era, especially around this time.

0:06.6

Now, the storyline, they play you a video package.

0:09.7

It's very weird because they show you like eight months ago,

0:13.0

the million-dollar man took Jake to Snake Roberts out.

0:15.2

He doesn't return for another like seven months after that.

0:18.8

The real backstory to that is Jake had a problem with substance abuse, so they had to get

0:23.3

him off television somehow and a million-dollar man taking him out.

0:27.2

But that's a long time, though, for a very popular wrestler to be removed from television and not

0:32.0

really feeling the burn of missing one of these characters.

0:35.1

What was it like seeing a wrestler like this,

0:40.1

Jake the Snake Roberts, who clearly all these wrestlers are doing something backstage that aren't legal?

0:43.6

But Jake the Snake, he's one of those stories

0:45.6

that you hear more than others.

0:47.8

Why is that the case?

0:49.9

Well, somebody, you know,

0:51.5

and you know, have known people throughout your life, too, that, you know, they call people like social drinkers that can do that kind of thing.

1:02.8

You could say at the time, you know, everybody was doing something.

1:06.3

Yeah, there was a lot of all kinds of stuff happening on the road and these guys doing what they had to do

1:13.1

to get into that ring to get into the squared circle uh others were just better at dealing with it

1:21.5

there were a few exceptions that took it more seriously and stayed away from things like that and

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