10 Classic WWE Era Superstars That Would Still Get Over Today
4. Jake Roberts
If Bray Wyatt has proven anything, it's that there's still plenty of room on the WWE roster for psychotic personalities with a limited (but effective) move set.
The pessimists among us might be tempted to look at that mustache and that DDT finisher and surmise that Jake "The Snake" was simply meant for a much different time - a time that worshipped Tom Selleck and hadn't yet unearthed complicated finishing moves like the F5. Then you look at someone like Big Show and figure, "Well, if someone with who uses a punch to the head for a finisher and walks around with that goofy !*$% goatee still gets over with audiences...why not Jake?"
But truthfully, there was never anyone in the business who did more with less than Jake Roberts. He made you feel like he had an endless arsenal, just because he was so methodical in how he used it.
No, he wasn't going to pull a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker out of his bag of tricks, and that's fine. He was going to pull a snake out of that bag. And it was going to be terrifying and awesome and screw you if you can't appreciate his masterful use of ring psychology.