WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts bought into many controversial storylines as an lively wrestler, typically involving his pet snake. However, nothing he ever did was as broadly panned because the notorious 2002 Katie Vick storyline that featured Kane and Triple H. On his “The Snake Pit” podcast, Roberts reacted to the angle.
Interestingly, Roberts wasn’t conscious of the storyline, and bought to observe Triple H and the Katie Vick model performing what was imagined to be an act of necrophilia. Afterward, he was requested about his response to not solely what he witnessed, however necrophilia as a complete. “Not with it, man … That’s some sick s**t.” Roberts was additionally knowledgeable by co-host Marcus DeAngelo, that the phase was allegedly filmed whereas an actual funeral was taking place within the parlor. After listening to about this, Roberts instantly denounced the angle. “Of course, it was! Oh my God … No respect brother … It’s uh, f*cking disgusting, ought to’ve been banned from tv altogether.”
Despite this, he later joked that he would have finished the angle without cost if requested. “No. I might do it without cost. But I’d do it proper! I’d use an actual corpse! So disgusting…” While followers have typically criticized the phase, Roberts is not the one Hall of Famer to denounce it. Back in 2022, Jim Ross additionally slammed the angle throughout an episode of “Grilling JR.” According to JR, the phase was “embarrassing to wrestling.”
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