12 Most INSANE Things Wrestlers Have EVER Said On AEW TV

7. Jake Roberts Gets Sexual

Jake Roberts
AEW

It started very well for Jake Roberts in AEW.

His first promo, which he cut on Cody Rhodes on the Dynamite following Revolution 2020, was excellent episodic TV. Channelling the old sinister magic, Roberts talked about a secret client who was ready to annihilate Cody. This sparked intrigue, conversation, speculation - the exact sort of thing AEW is missing in 2025. Roberts continued to impress when narrating vignettes.

Archer quickly settled into a fun if familiar Monster of the Week arc. His aura drained away within months. Jake, meanwhile, wasn’t great in the live setting - and that’s because he kept saying a lot of odd sh*t.

At All Out 2020, Archer won a Casino Battle Royal held to determine the #1 contender to the AEW World title. This was built on Dynamite with various face-to-face confrontations between the bigger name wrestlers in it, and in one such segment, Archer and Roberts came out to compete in a pissing contest with Team Taz. It was cool to see a rare heel versus heel interaction - at least until it got distractingly, unintentionally funny.

“Let me tell you somethin’,” Roberts said. “You’re just a couple of squirrels trying to get a nut. Well, you’re not gonna bust a nut any time we’re in the ring. D’you see what I’m sayin’?”

Not really mate, no.

God knows what Jake was getting at here. He once compared successful crowd psychology to sexual intercourse, saying that a wrestler shouldn’t pop too early. Perhaps by “busting a nut”, what he really meant was “You won’t win in the end”. Or maybe he just wanted to make Archer corpse.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!