Jake Roberts Recalls Getting Busted Open Hard Way By Randy Savage

On the latest episode of The Snake Pit with Jake Roberts, the WWE Hall of Famer talked about the formula of working a match as a heel, getting busted open the hard way during a match with Randy Savage, and more. You can check out some highlights below:

On the formula of working a match as a heel: “I think the heel has to be on top more often. Simply because you’re gonna build a match, and to build that match the heel has to be on top.”

Jake Roberts on whether he was asked to get color by being busted open the hard way: “No, but it’s been done to me… Yeah, just an accident. Savage got me over the eyebrow, got me for about 26 stitches, something like that. Thirty seconds into a match… It was a cage match, and he ran up the cage, and I went up out after him. And he just swung back with that elbow, and he got me.”

On his reaction to it: “Ain’t nothing to it, man. It just happened, you know?”

On working in hardcore and violent matches: “It’s alright with me, man. They’re gimmick matches so it makes them pretty easy to do if you’re smart. A bunkhouse match basically is just a taped fist match with blue jeans on, you know? Basically the same damn match, except you got blue jeans on. Of course, you do have a belt that does come off, and you use the belt to whip somebody with. That’s just one of the tools you have in the ring. So use it.”

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