Oh, Lordy. I knew it was bad...

[thebitterguy]

But apparently Jake "the snake" Roberts will be working a show in Napanee.

My hometown.

Man.

I don't know what shape he's in now. I don't know if he's clean, or if this is just a chance for him to score some rock money. But Napanee?

Admittedly, I haven't seen the Strathcona centre, so it could be a large facility that'll draw them in from Deseronto to Odessa.

It's the same night ANOTHER UWA is holding a show closer to home in Mississauga. Man.

I like how the Napanee show says "no refunds under any circumstances".

Man. Jake Roberts playing Napanee. Mind you, 20 years ago that would have been cooler than Elvis, but 20 years ago I didn't understand Kayfabe, and he probably would have been on a bill with Ricky Steamboat.

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[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... understand: I am not a follower of The Wrasslin. But, this strikes me as kinda like, say, BTO playing CasinoRama? Sorta makes one shake one's head in sadness, a bit, no?

[thebitterguy]

Actually, I think Casinorama has more prestige. I think it's more like Great White playing a skeezy sports bar in New Jersey somewhere.

Now, I'm not 100% up on my indy feds, so this UWA he's wrestling for may be big in Eastern Ontario, and the Strathcona Centre may be a really good venue.

But from what I know, he's been on hard times for most of the past 15 years (what I saw of his sequence in Wrestling with the Past was heartbreaking), and Napanee has never been a significant stop on any circuit.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

In 1999, I met Brutus the Barber Beefcake. He was "playing" the parking lot of a pizza parlour in Hagersville.

No one came to see him.

I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. McMahon.

[thebitterguy]

There's nothing quite as sad as someone wrapping themselves in faded celebrity. It's why I almost always cry after going to the Motor City Comic Con.

Some middle aged guy going "Hey, look at me! I did this!", responded to with a resounding cry of "who cares?" is heartbreaking to me.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

I don't know what shape he's in now.

You don't remember him coming out last year as part of the hype for Randy Orton's Wrestlemania 21 match with The Undertaker? Randy fought a bunch of the guys 'taker had destroyed at WM over the years.

Yeah, he looked like shit, our Jake did. See, I am a long time fan of Jake... but Jake has fallen too far, physically and emotionally and mentally, to be worth seeing. Sure, when Jake's music hit and he came out, I was like a school girl at a Sailor Moon live action movie premeire...

But he was Sad. Yes, with a capital 'S'. :(