Jakes Roberts Drops Charges Against Harry Smith
Who knew Bret Hart was the excellence of diplomacy?
The venom between Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and Harry Smith seems to be over - thanks to the intervention of WWE Hall of Famer and all-round good lad Bret Hart.
Roberts had previously filed charges against Smith after an incident at WrestleCon during which the son of The British Bulldog made an almost literal mug out of 'the Snake', pouring coffee on him and his daughter. Smith was aggrieved at comments Roberts made with regards to his father on an earlier podcast.
The intervention of Smith's uncle Bret Hart seems to have smoothed over the matter, and both parties are now understood to have made private apologies to one another. Smith went full-on 'bigger man' in issuing a public mea culpa ahead of a tag-match in Kunamoto earlier on Sunday:
"I'd like to announce publicly and officially that I spoke with Jake Roberts on the phone today and we squashed heat we have for what happened at the WrestleCon event," wrote Smith Jr. about squashing his beef with Roberts. "I apologized and said I would apologize publicly as Jake agreed he would be dropping any charges pressed against me."
Bret Hart: master of diplomacy. There's a reason it only took him eight years to make amends with WWE.