Jake Roberts Wishes AEW Would Use Him To Help Talent With Interviews

Jake Roberts wants to help out more in AEW. 

Roberts joined AEW in March 2020 and was immediately paired with Lance Archer. Roberts has been by Archer’s side throughout his AEW career, but has missed stretches of television time due to health issues or Archer not being on television. 

Roberts said in November that he was off oxygen, but Archer has been in Japan for World Tag League at the end in 2022. 

Speaking on his The Snake Pit podcast, Roberts said he would love to help AEW talent with promos.

“There’s not much interaction with the younger talent. There are a few guys at AEW that welcome me being there. Everyone is kind, don’t get me wrong, but that’s it. I’d like so much more,” he said. “I wish AEW would use me in a position where I was helping people with interviews because I do know how to do that and I can certainly help a few people that are struggling, and there are a few that struggle. You can always get better on interviews, you’re never great. Dory Funk once told me, ‘If you ever think you had the perfect match,’ and this is how I feel about interviews, ‘then you should go backstage, take off your trunks, take off your boots, put them in a pile, spray lighter fluid and burn them. You don’t deserve to be in the ring anymore if you think you’ve had a perfect match. There is no such thing as a perfect match, you can always make it better.’ Same thing with interviews.”

The conversation began with Roberts noting that he didn’t speak to any young talent in WWE when he returned in 2014 for an episode of WWE Raw. 

Roberts was asked about Jon Moxley as he famously laid a snake on Moxley (Dean Ambrose in WWE) on the Throwback WWE Raw episode in January 2014 and Moxley has drawn comparisons to Roberts on the mic. 

“I saw that he had command of the mic and knew what he was doing. He’s never asked me for help, and that’s okay too. He’s in a good spot and is handling it. He’s done a couple of interviews that I thought were unbelievably over the top good,” he said.

It is unknown when Roberts will return to television. 

Archer recently commented that he would be willing to rebuild in AEW and would still like to work with Roberts. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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