The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released just now and features WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts.
You can find some of Jake and Eric’s comments transcribed below.
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JR: The other bad time I had with Randy (Savage) is when they had me slap Elizabeth. You can imagine what that was like.
EB: Ughhhh.
JR: Yeah. That wasn’t even funny. That angle that we did with the snake bite and Elizabeth should have went on. We should have gone to WrestleMania with that but we didn’t. I was like, “Why in the hell isn’t this being strung out?” Bottom line was Elizabeth’s grandparents and parents weren’t smart. Ok? Randy had promised them that Elizabeth would never, ever get physically involved or hurt during his wrestling career and yet she just got slapped. Randy and her went back to visit her grandparents and the old man pulled a gun on him and said, “Don’t you even think about coming in the house!”
EB: Woah!
JR: “Don’t come back! Don’t come back! Our little girl did get hurt!” “Be a man of your word!” All of that stuff. Randy got kicked out and he had to make it up to them right away and that meant cleaning my clock.
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling starts with Eric giving his take on a couple of stories from around the business of pro wrestling from this past week including:
- The announcement that former WCW World Champion Diamond Dallas Page will be joining the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2017
- The passings of George “The Animal” Steele & Ivan Koloff
- The New Day hosting WrestleMania 33
- The Rock’s in-ring phone call to CM Punk this past Monday after RAW
- Kendall Jenner rocking an NWO Wolfpac shirt
- More…
Eric then welcomes his guest for this week WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts! During his appearance Jake speaks candidly to Eric about:
- Getting to work with Stu Hart and Stampede Wrestling in Calgary
- Bill Watts being hard on him in Mid South Wrestling
- Where the idea for Damien came from
- Vince McMahon’s vision for the Jake “The Snake” Roberts character
- Working with Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat
- Being asked to do a move to Ricky that he was uncomfortable with
- Piper’s Pit vs The Snake Pit
- Working with Hulk Hogan
- A bad joke he played on Rick Rude
- What about Andre The Giant’s drinking surprised him
- Why he made Miss Elizabeth’s family angry during his feud with Randy Savage
- Working with Randy and an actual cobra
- Almost taking over creative for the WWF in the early 90s
- His leap from WWF to WCW
- What tease he’d like to leave for part two of his interview next week on Bischoff on Wrestling
- More…
Today’s show then wraps up with an extended edition of the #BischoffOnWrestling mail bag segment
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