Nov 02, 2024
Jake Roberts Criticizes Modern Steel Cage Matches: “They Screwed It Up” - PWMania - Wrestling News
WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts took to an episode of his Snake Pit podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including how wrestling promoters screwed up the Steel Cage Match.
WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts took to an episode of his Snake Pit podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including how wrestling promoters screwed up the Steel Cage Match.
Roberts said, “Well you know, I always like the cage match until they f***ed that up… by allowing people to escape from the cage. I mean, when the cage was first introduced to wrestling, it was a situation usually where the babyface couldn’t get his hands on the heel. The heel keeps running, getting out, you know, taking a disqualification, whatever to hold on to a title, usually. And you want to stop that, so what do you do? You want to stop all outside interference, too. If that’s the situation, then the perfect thing would be a cage. It means there must be a winner. That’s a fight to the finish. But they screwed it up by allowing yourself to escape from the cage.”
On the Long Island Coliseum fans:
“Yeah, the brutality the fans put on your fans. The fans were brutal there, man. They’d throw all sorts of s**t at you. Batteries, oh man those hurt… get one of those off your noggin, see how you feel.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)