The True Story Behind The WORST Wrestling Show In History
It was another beyond tedious effort that had graduated uni and had kids by the time it was over.
And then the double main event became, in an impromptu scramble, a tag team match because a pissed out of his skull Jake Roberts couldn't do a damn thing.
He couldn't stand up straight. Playing with his hair and clenching his eyes shut to stave off nausea, Roberts commenced his infamous speech: "You don't wanna play cards with me because I'll cheat," he said, in what, at another time, may have become the grand, poetic, themed promos for which he was celebrated as one of the best. This was not that; a slurred, inexplicable mixing of metaphors, Roberts was, to be cruel but accurate, a drunk talking sh*t. It was a hideous scene that only cultivated disgust because it could be found in each direction; the exploitative promoter and the unprofessional worker. Roberts was pitiable too, of course, but it was difficult to feel too much sympathy. The acts he inflicted on his snake were abusive.
Stone combined Jim Neidhart vs. Jake Roberts and King Kong Bundy vs. Yokozuna into one match sooner than he had intended with the original angle. It featured an ageing, effectively unconscious alcoholic relapsing in real time, a grotesquely overweight man, and two well past their prime workers trying to pull something together under the most disastrous and upsetting of circumstances. It was still exponentially better than that Iron Sheikh match.
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