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How DDP is helping Jake "The Snake" Roberts

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dabom88
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3483 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-26 20:57:55
January 26 2013 12:19 GMT
#1
Ever since former WCW fan-favorite wrestler "Diamond Dallas Page", or DDP, has retired from in-ring competition, he's been working on a Yoga/Workout program and as a motivational speaker. His "DDP Yoga" has helped several wrestlers with their aches and pains, along with many members of the general public. Around July/August of 2012, he contacted another old veteran, Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Jake is an old-time wrestler who used to be considered pretty great, both in the ring and on the mic. However, years of alcoholism and drug abuse have left his body in bad shape. In October of that year, DDP decided to move in with Jake in an attempt to clean up Jake's life, and film a documentary about it.
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Former WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page has worked with several pro wrestlers on their aches and pains via his DDP Yoga system.

But Monday he begins perhaps his biggest challenge when Jake “The Snake” Roberts moves in with Page in a home Page recently bought in Atlanta. Roberts, whose wrestling career was derailed multiple times by substance abuse issues, will train with Page while cameras roll for a planned documentary. The idea is to get Roberts, 57, back in good enough shape for one more run in the wrestling business.

Page, 56, told newsday.com Sunday that he called Roberts -- whose weight had ballooned up to 302 pounds -- in Roberts’ hometown of Gainesville, Texas three months ago.

Full article:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/pro-wrestling/jake-the-snake-roberts-to-move-in-with-diamond-dallas-page-train-for-one-last-pro-wrestling-run-1.4163588


Things didn't go smoothly off at the start. Shortly after, Jake showed up drunk to an Independent Wrestling show and caused a scene.
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PWMania.com previously reported that WWE Legend Jake “The Snake” Roberts was moving in with Diamond Dallas Page on Monday. The plan is for DDP to use his yoga program to help get Roberts back in shape for one more run in the ring.

Roberts was booked for an independent show in La Marque, Texas on Saturday night for the Coastal Wrestling Federation where he was set to face a wrestler named Johnny Blade. According to fans in attendance, Roberts had been drinking and got upset when he felt his opponent was getting too much attention, more than Roberts himself.

Roberts reportedly confronted Blade during a mid-show promo in the ring. The story goes that Roberts ordered a confused referee to the ring, hit Blade in the head and then fell on top of him for a quick, sloppy pin. Roberts then reportedly walked straight from the ring to his car and left.

There were about 300 fans in attendance and the promoter issued an apology for Roberts’ action.

Full article:
http://www.pwmania.com/jake-the-snake-roberts-reportedly-shows-intoxicated-indy-event-scene#ixzz2ApBVv0XM


After this, DDP instituted a zero tolerance policy on alcohol. He also said that Jake should go back to A.A. Jake went, but went to Dallas, admitting that he needed help.
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On his recent inebriated appearance at an Indie Event: “When I got down to Atlanta, DDP was like ‘OK, the first thing we need to talk about is your drinking…why do you drink?’ and I was just like ‘Well, I like it’…so I’m like OK,OK,OK I’ll play your silly f*cking game and I said well how about a couple of beers? So he agreed, we’ll try sticking to two beers. Well that lasted about a week…

“I went out on an autograph thing on Rhode Island. Did really well, didn’t drink for a two or three days during the signing, and I spoke to a lot of people and they were just patting me on the back, saying how much better I looked with all the weight I had lost, saying ‘damn Jake you haven’t looked this good in years, keep up the good work’…well, you shouldn’t tell a drunk or an addict these things. Like everything else in life, I use whatever situation I am in to get drunk or get high. In this instance it was ‘man you deserve a reward’. Man, I’m not a god damn dog that did a trick, but that’s the way I treated myself. The next thing I know, I’m getting off a plane in Atlanta…and Dallas is there, I don’t know why Dallas is there. We get back to the house and I find out I had been pretty stupid and ridiculous, and basically had gone through a four hour blackout. Blacked out. Didn’t know what I had done, what I had said, who I had offended…thank god I wasn’t in jail. I think if Dallas hadn’t been at the airport I would have ended up in there.

“Next morning, we get up and Dallas is saying ‘last week you did really well, then you go out this week and totally screw up…so here’s the new deal. Absolutely no alcohol. And at that point I’m like, you are absolutely right…because the sh*t isn’t doing you any good. Then he was like ‘you should go back to A.A…so two days later I went back…but then I went to Dallas and was like ‘I agree with the no drinking thing, but you’re gonna have to help me’…so we went to a doctor and got set up with something called anti-buse. Brother, if you drink alcohol with that stuff it will drop you like a gunshot. It will make you so violently ill, that you will not think about drinking. But it’s a crutch for me. It’s a safety line, and being here with Dallas, he’s making me change my way of thinking about things.”

Full article:
http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2012/1123/558190/jake-roberts/index.shtml


After that incident, Jake seems to have been getting much better. DDP seems to be having a good effect on Jake's life.
December 4:
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On this Monday morning, the news of Roberts’ friend’s death is tough, but it doesn’t overshadow all the good things that are happening. Roberts had just returned the day before from an appearance at a pro wrestling show in Las Vegas. A couple of weeks before Roberts had suffered a setback – an alcohol-induced blackout returning from an appearance in Rhode Island -- and he wasn’t taking any chances in Sin City.

When he got off the plane in Vegas, good friend and fellow grappler Sinn Bodhi – who portrayed Kizarny briefly in WWE – met Roberts at the airport and watched him take antabuse, a drug that makes a person violently ill if he has any alcohol.

“A lot of this is making sure you do the right things when you’re stepping into the danger zone,” Roberts explains. “I’m not going put a gun in my mouth anymore, spit in the chamber and see if I get lucky. I wanted to have all the cards stacked against failing.”

Roberts laughs when recalling the scene of him drinking water with his friend in a Las Vegas club.

“I’m in Vegas drinking water,” Roberts said. “I’ve ruined my life.”

To confirm that Roberts is clean, he will travel with Yu that afternoon for a drug test – and Roberts can’t wait.

“I’ll get high by passing this test in a way, in a good way,” Roberts says. “Instead of hiding from a drug test I’ll be dancing when I go there.”

Full Article:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/pro-wrestling/24-hours-in-diamond-dallas-page-s-accountability-crib-with-jake-the-snake-roberts-1.4289421


January 12:
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On his sobriety and the struggle: It's really cool, you walk into my bedroom here at the Accountability Crib, that's what we're calling it (DDP's house), and right to the right there's a big frame, a real nice frame, no money spared on that, and inside is my first drug test that I've passed. And I've got many more. Many more. I'm sixty-seven days clean and I'm not missing it at all, man- there's been a couple of moments where I'm like "Sonofabitch, I'd like to have a drink," you know. One was yesterday, I had to do an MRI, and I'm claustrophobic... you're in the gigantic machine, it drops down to about an inch above your face, and all the noises start, it's really horrible, man. It's really funny, when you hit something that really bothers ya, damn, it bothers ya, clean or dirty. And those things bother me. It'd been twenty-something years since I had the last one. It was a tough moment for me, and I shouted "gosh darn it, I need a drink.' But I didn't mean it. I was just playing with my mind. 'Cause sometimes you gotta lie to yourself to keep from running from the truth.

Full Article:
http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe/Jake_Roberts_Interview_Living_With_DDP_Getting_Staying_Sober.html


Some fun videos of DDP and Jake interacting:
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However, an old shoulder injury resurfaced and Jake Roberts became unable to continue his workout routine. It required surgery, and Jake could not afford the apparent $9200 it would cost. He was on a good roll, but it seemed as if Jake had run into a stumbling block in his recovery. DDP actually made a personal phone call to Paul Levesque, aka WWE Superstar "Triple H", who knows what is going on between them, to see if the WWE might be able to give some financial assistance. However, Triple H said that the only medical benefits they give to former superstars no longer under contract for free is Rehab, and surgery did not qualify (even if some surgeries are actually cheaper than rehab).

DDP, however, didn't give up. He started an indiegogo.com campaign to help raise money for Jake's shoulder surgery. It's a crowdfunding site, much like kickstarter.

http://www.indiegogo.com/jakethesnake

You can see the story of what then happened on the site and their reaction right here:


Apparently, wrestling fans had not forgotten about Jake Roberts or DDP. They read the story of what he's been going through and how DDP has been trying to help him. And those fans responded in full. Within a single day, fans donated $7000 of the $9200 goal. There are still 29 of the 30 days left, and as of this writing, the pledges have reached $14,853, well above the goal. Any donations above the goal are said to be going to dental work Jake has been needing for many years but has been unable to afford.

Sometimes, the Pro Wrestling fans are seen as a bit of a joke. But seeing stories like this make me glad that there are fans like this. They see someone that entertained them. They remembered him. They remembered the awesome matches he wrestled and the great promos he cut. And when they saw that his life was in a rut and an opportunity to help improve it, they responded in spades.

I've always liked DDP. I was never a WCW guy, so I never watched him in his prime. But I did see him in WWE, and have occasionally followed the things he did after he retired. After seeing this though, I have so much more respect for him. I really hope that Jake remembers everything DDP and his fans have done for him, and hope he never falls off the wagon again. Not much else I can say.

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Clemz
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States70 Posts
January 26 2013 13:01 GMT
#2
Fantastic blog. Unfortunately, the issues Jake dealt with are far too common in that business. I've been a fan of wrestling since I was a child, Jake was on his way out at the time, at least I don't really remember watching too much of his stuff when he was relevant. DDP on the other hand, I was more a WCW guy and he was(and still is) one of my favorites from that time. It's amazing. Going to borrow something from one of the wrestling blogs I visit, called With Leather:

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It never stops being hilarious and inspiring that a guy this shoot gross looking could have it together more than anybody else in this gallery and be a yoga instructor in 2013.

Read more: http://withleather.uproxx.com/2013/01/the-best-and-very-very-worst-of-vintage-wcw-promo-photos-part-2#ixzz2J5O9jYpt


A lot of current superstars are also on the DDP Yoga bandwagon, Chris Jericho is also a huge proponent of it and says he feels better than he ever has since starting it.

Still though, there's so many others like Jake from this business that will never get the help they need, whether they can't afford it, or simply won't accept it, and it's a shame really. Scott Hall, one of my all time favorites, has been all but written off as dead so many times. It's great that WWE offers the rehab programs for past employees, but it's really up to them if they take advantage of it or not.
emythrel
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom2599 Posts
January 26 2013 15:35 GMT
#3
Loved Jake, such a great performer.

That whole dental thing perplexes me, thank god for the NHS... max we pay is like £150 and for that they will fix pretty much everything, give you new false teeth and everything. 9k for dental repairs, holy cow! glad thats hes getting them tho, cause teeth hurt when they are broken like no other pain i have experienced.
When there is nothing left to lose but your dignity, it is already gone.
tshi
Profile Joined September 2012
United States2495 Posts
January 26 2013 17:49 GMT
#4
I watched the documentary on Razor Ramon™'s drug problem. It's really quite amazingly depressing seeing stuff like that. There are too many passed wrestlers that deal with huge substance abuse problems; hopefully DDP & JtSR's situation can shed light on it more and help in a positive way.

Great blog, btw, very concise!
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dabom88
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3483 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-26 21:06:20
January 26 2013 20:57 GMT
#5
On January 27 2013 00:35 emythrel wrote:
Loved Jake, such a great performer.

That whole dental thing perplexes me, thank god for the NHS... max we pay is like £150 and for that they will fix pretty much everything, give you new false teeth and everything. 9k for dental repairs, holy cow! glad thats hes getting them tho, cause teeth hurt when they are broken like no other pain i have experienced.

$9200 dollars is for the shoulder surgery. Any extra money donated above the $9200 goal is going to dental work.

On January 26 2013 22:01 Clemz wrote:
Still though, there's so many others like Jake from this business that will never get the help they need, whether they can't afford it, or simply won't accept it, and it's a shame really. Scott Hall, one of my all time favorites, has been all but written off as dead so many times. It's great that WWE offers the rehab programs for past employees, but it's really up to them if they take advantage of it or not.

On January 27 2013 02:49 tshi wrote:
I watched the documentary on Razor Ramon™'s drug problem. It's really quite amazingly depressing seeing stuff like that. There are too many passed wrestlers that deal with huge substance abuse problems; hopefully DDP & JtSR's situation can shed light on it more and help in a positive way.

Great blog, btw, very concise!

Yeah, it's really something when even Kevin Nash, who was Scott Hall's best friend and tag team partner for so many years, has given up on him.
You should not have to pay to watch the GSL, Proleague, or OSL at a reasonable time. That is not "fine" and it's BS to say otherwise. My sig since 2011. http://www.youtube.com/user/dabom88
dabom88
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3483 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-14 21:21:39
February 14 2013 21:15 GMT
#6
Valentine's Day update:


In going along with the Scott Hall references in this topic, it's good to report that DDP and Jake have actually reached out to Scott Hall. They did it at the request of Sean Waltman, aka X-Pac and the 1-2-3 Kid. That video was apparently shot a while ago. Hall is actually moving in with them on Monday, and according to DDP, has been 16 days sober.
You should not have to pay to watch the GSL, Proleague, or OSL at a reasonable time. That is not "fine" and it's BS to say otherwise. My sig since 2011. http://www.youtube.com/user/dabom88
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