2. 'The Snake In The Bag Is Not The Dangerous One'
https://youtu.be/4ZfqJKcUd1Y?list=PL5aGPwyMl3rOTC3Di9JtO0JU2cp780meL 'Trust Me' Jake Roberts is one of the greatest heel characters in the history of professional wrestling. There was something so very sinister about him, something perverse. It seemed to give the man himself a new lease of life. Not to say he had grown lazy, most certainly not, but the vibe of Jake's promos felt more natural when being delivered with the most evil of intentions. Rather than being shoehorned into a cuddly babyface world, rubbing shoulders with vanilla good guys like 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan and Tito Santana, Roberts belonged on the dark side. He was a snake, and snakes rarely take the high road. Jake brought a reptile to the ring with him, but much like Stephen King's IT Damien (and the others) merely gave his opponents something tangible to fear. It was Jake himself that was the true danger. The heel run came at the end of his first WWF stint, and promised great things. His personal issues stopped this from happening, one of the great lost characters in professional wrestling.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.