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[1994-06-18-SMW-TV] Interview: Dirty White Boy / Interview: Jake Roberts / Jake Roberts vs James Atkins / Dirty White Boy and Fake Kendo


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  • 2 months later...

Tony Anthony is doing the best work of his career in this feud. Another fantastic promo.

 

Jake responds back at the TV taping. He appears on SMW TV with no hair after the AAA match. Now DWB is making Jake raise *his* game on promos, and that is when you know you are seeing an awesome feud. He works his bald head into the DWB feud seamlessly. Everything Jake does is gold.

 

Jake then works a really fun squash and has Kendo the Samurai bring out a snake. However, Kendo refuses and DWB comes out and we see now that Tony is trying to play Jake's game. Jake heads back to the dressing room and we see that the real Kendo the Samurai has been tied up in the back. Everyone is out and we have ourselves a brawl.

 

After the angle, DWB does an interview back on set where he takes off his eyepatch to announce he is 100% and does another good interview.

 

This is possibly my favorite feud of 1994.

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Both these guys deliver some of the best promos you will see. These guys have talked up the best fued on the set. Dirty White Boy continues to impress me on his promos but Jake takes it to another level and manages to nail one better. Jakes wins a squash match and we have these dueling masked men involved on the side. Didn’t need those guys out there giving involved in this feud. But damn were those promos good.

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Two outstanding promos from DWB and Jake here. The mind games are on and Jake wins a quick squash followed by some mind games from DWB involving two Kendo's. DWB cuts another great promo after a short brawl and reveals that he no longer needs an eye-patch. Jake also revealed that he was bald earlier too. This is just a tremendous feud. Excellent stuff.

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"You like to play mind games, Jake...let's do it then." DWB is still filled with self-doubt and remorse, but now for the first time it comes off as though Jake is fucked.

 

Jake sans hair is out to rebut, and he finally has the title belt with him. "If this were a battle of wits, I would be fighting an unarmed man." This is one of Jake's strongest SMW promos yet, as he junks the smartassery and is back to being the purely cold-hearted evil bastard who tormented Randy & Elizabeth like he's tormenting Tony & Kimberly. Jake espouses the instant gratification of running with the Devil. Hey, Daryl Van Horne, take note: this is how to cut a promo in the Bible Belt and come off as genuinely believing it rather than a guy trying to say the most shocking thing he can on broadcast TV to get a reaction. They do a pretty masterful job of trying to make sense out of Jake's haircut.

 

The fake Kendo stuff is pretty clever, but it's not quite the hellfire and brimstone brought upon Jake that you might hope for. Tony follows up by taking off his eyepatch, which is a cool moment.

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The Dirty White Boy is out in the countryside sat down leaning against a tree. Whenever he gets problems or has to think things through, here is where he comes as it is peaceful, quiet, no-one can bother you and you can just sit and think. He’s been doing a lot of thinking, as right now he has a lot of problems that go by the name of Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts. Never has he ever begged anyone for anything, but he begged Jake Roberts at the Volunteer Slam to DDT him and not his wife, but like a snake he went ahead and did it anyway. The White Girl is going to get better, but Jake took his self-respect and he can no longer look his wife in the eyes. He’s been sat outside thinking for the best part of a day when he heard something, looked down and saw a black snake come crawling by. If you don’t go head on at a snake the snake won’t bite you, but if you attack that snake or go head on at it, it’s either going to bite you or slither away. That’s when everything started to come clear to him. Jake likes to play mind games, so let’s start playing mind games. He watched that snake for a while, eased up from behind on it, reached down and then grabbed it right behind the head. He had the snake and it couldn’t do anything, it was at his mercy. The only way he’s going to get his self-esteem back, be able to hold his head up high and face his wife is by playing games, he’s going to have to start acting like a snake. From this point on Jake better be ready, because if he wants to play games, he’ll play games!

 

Back in the studio and Bob Caudle can’t believe a giant of a man in the world of pro wrestling like Jake Roberts would DDT a little lady like the Dirty White Girl. Jake says that once you step in the ring you’re fair game and the only person that’s safe in that ring is the referee. He’s heard ‘Tony’ say he’ll pay his game, but if it’s a battle of wits he’d be fighting an unarmed man as when it comes to turning screws on someone or putting a gun to their head, that’s exactly what he’ll do. When you are born into this life you have a decision to make right off the bat, do you want to walk with the man that gave us the book or do you want to run with the devil? Everybody says if you follow the man with the book you have eternal life, but when you run with the devil its instant gratification. You get what you want when you want it, but when you choose to run with the devil you’ve got to be ready to take that extra step no matter when it is or what it is. You’ve got to stay one up on the game, you’ve got be willing to sacrifice anything just to play the game with someone else’s mind. Jake then takes off his bandana to reveal a shaven head (the result of losing a ‘hair vs hair’ match to Konnan in AAA) and says that’s just an example of how far he’ll go to mess with someone’s mind. His hair has gone and whilst the Dirty White Boy’s hair has almost gone, he’ll take the rest of it and if he’s already done what he did to his wife, what will he do to him? If he wants to come play games, come play with the snake, but be careful because you will get bit.

 

We then get a Jake Roberts squash against James Atkins. After the match Jake motions for someone to come down to ringside and Kendo the Samurai comes out carrying a bag. Jake tried to get him to give him the bag but he won’t, when out comes Tony Anthony who puts his arm around Kendo. Jake’s unnerved and uncertain about what’s going on and heads back to the dressing room where he finds the ‘real’ Kendo the Samurai tied up back there. Jake frees him and the two of them return to the ring, but come out on the short end against the White Boy and fake Kendo.

 

The Dirty White Boy is with the fake Kendo and says let the games begin! Jake the Snake wanted him at 100%, ‘no excuses’, and he takes off his eye patch to reveal that he is at 100% and he doesn’t need it anymore. At Summerblast they’ve got a cage match, nobody can get in, there’s no running, no hiding, he owes Jake something and he plans on collecting.

 

What's to say about these segments? The Dirty White Boy interview was phenomenal with him finally coming to the realisation what he needs to do to get the better of Jake. Roberts then tops him and the revealing and explanation of his bald head is masterful. Nice little angle with the fake Kendo and Jake may have writted off the Dirty White Boy quicker than he thought. Wonderful stuff!

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