10 Things You Didn't Know About Brodie Lee

10. The Jake Roberts To His Brother's Rick Rude

While the two were never aligned in AEW, it must have been some thrill for Brodie Lee to be able to rub shoulders with Jake 'The Snake' Roberts. The influence of Jake was clear in The Exalted One, a willingness to fill all of the space provided by an evil persona. They were both sinister, violent, manipulative and downright sleazy, from time to time.

The link between Brodie and Jake goes way back, all the way back to the former's formative years in Rochester. A big WWF fan from a young age, Brodie used to wrestle with his older brother, although there was a predictability to it all. Brodie was Jake while his older brother was 'Ravishing' Rick Rude. The winner? Rude, more often than not.

But then Brodie began to grow, and grow, and grow. All of a sudden, his brother wasn't so interested in wrestling anymore. Short of opportunities to wrestle, the young Jon Huber made the decision to take it a little more seriously, stepping inside a training school ring and falling head over heels in love with the industry that would be a cruel mistress for the rest of his life.