As one of many longest-tenured veterans of the wrestling business nonetheless working in some capability as we speak, AEW’s Jake Roberts has run into a variety of attention-grabbing characters. That contains one Bob Backlund, though Roberts had one other phrase to explain the previous WWE Champion when he was requested for any Backlund tales on “The Snake Pit.”
“He’s a f*****g maniac,” Roberts mentioned. “Are you kidding? That man is legit psycho. He’s simply … that man is so robust, it is unimaginable. He’s a freak of nature. He’ll f*****g lose it man, and begin screaming and s**t. He scares the f**okay out of me. He does it at signings. He’ll seize somebody in a f*****g maintain and simply scream like loopy.” Despite the robust phrases, Roberts made it clear he had large respect for Backlund and his off-kilter methods. He then proceeded to inform one Backlund story that proved how crazed, and proficient, he might be.
“I bear in mind again within the late-70s, he got here to Mid South,” Roberts mentioned. “They introduced a child from LSU, who was like 6’8, 350 f*****g kilos to problem a wrestler. And no one wished to get in there. Because in the event you get in there and also you lose, your f*****g s**t’s over. And Backlund raises his hand and says I’ll observe you. And all people’s like ‘Oh, f**okay no man.” But he went on the market, and all he did was seize the man within the f*****g headlock. He grabbed that man in that headlock, and squeezed so f*****g onerous, the man handed out. That was f*****g unimaginable man. And it did not take lengthy both.”
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