Aurelian Smith Jr.

Known for ActingBorn 1955-05-30 (age 71)Gainesville, Texas, USA

Aurelian Smith Jr., better known by the ring name Jake "The Snake" Roberts, is an American actor and professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).s a second-generation American professional wrestler, the son of former wrestler Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith. He is best known by his ring name of Jake "The Snake" Roberts, and often brought snakes into the ring, including a boa constrictor named Damien and even a de-venomed cobra, named Lucifer. Roberts is best known for his two stints in the World Wrestling Federation—the first between 1986 and 1992, and the second between 1996 and 1997—though he also wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance in 1983, World Championship Wrestling in 1992, and the Mexico-based Asistencia Asesoría y Administración between 1993 and 1994 and again in 1997. He appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling during the summer of 1997, and has made sporadic appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2006 through 2008. Throughout his career he was known for his intense and cerebral promos, his dark charisma, his extensive use of psychology in his matches, and has been credited as inventor of the DDT maneuver. Roberts was also one of the subjects of the 1999 documentary film Beyond the Mat. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Roberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man

At What Cost? Anatomy of Professional Wrestling

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1

Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection

WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event

WWF Summer Flashback!

Deadly Venom: The Best of Sting

2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars

WWE SuperTape: Volume 3

WCCW Thanksgiving Star Wars '84

Legends of Mid-South Wrestling

WCW Halloween Havoc 1992

WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden

The History of WWE: 50 Years of Sports Entertainment

WWE: Undertaker 20-0 - The Streak

It's Good To Be The King: The Jerry Lawler Story

Tuesday Night Titans

WWE's Most Wanted Treasures

WWE SummerSlam 1996

WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies

WWE King of the Ring 1996

WWF Prime Time Wrestling

AEW Revolution 2024

Heroes of World Class

WWE: Jake 'The Snake' Roberts - Pick Your Poison

Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time

AEW Fyter Fest

WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time

Dark Side of the Ring

WWE: The Ladder Match

WWE WrestleMania VI

WWE Survivor Series 1987

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

Boy Meets World

AEW Fyter Fest

AEW Beach Break

All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite

WWE WrestleMania VIII

WWE Survivor Series 1988

AEW Double or Nothing 2020

WWE's Greatest Moments

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997

All Elite Wrestling: Collision

WWE The Big Event

WWF Superstars

Ricky Steamboat: The Life Story of the Dragon

AEW Dynamite Anniversary Show

WWE Survivor Series 1989