JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS.

After the ceremony at SummerSlam they moved to a nearby hotel for the wedding breakfast and reception. After cutting the cake and performing the first dance, Randy and Elizabeth moved over to the presents and began to open them. After opening a couple of presents, Elizabeth pulled the next one to her and began to unwrap it. The paper came off ... the lid came undone .... to reveal a cobra - courtesty of Jake "The Snake" Roberts. After knocking Randy out cold, Jake appeared and taunted Elizabeth with the snake until one of the guests "Sid Justice" intervened.

Randy was by this time retired and had started a new career in the broadcast booth on the weekly show "Superstars Of Wrestling". Jake came to the ring for his weekly match and quickly took care of his opponent, before turning his attention to Randy in the booth. At first, Randy sat and listened as Jake called him "yellow belly" ..... and a "gutless, stinking coward who hides behinds his wife's skirts". Randy made his way to the ring (despite fellow broadcasters Vince and Roddy pleading with him not to ... "I'm just going to gt a closer look" said Randy), and after a few more insults slid into the ring to face Jake down.

One knock down later saw Randy tied up in the ropes with Jake bearing down on him with a king cobra in his hands. After a couple of seconds more taunting, Jake released the snake on Randy, it sinking it's fangs into Randy's arm. (Jake pleaded innocence to then WWF President Jack Tunney that he thought the snake had been de-venomised - Tunney had no choice but to believe him). Elizabeth came running to the ring but the fear of both Jake and his cobra kept her outside the ropes. It was Randy's fellow broadcaster "Rowdy" Roddy Piper who eventually came to Randy's aid, getting into the ring and releasing him.

In the following few days, Elizabeth got behind her husband's bid to be reinstated, as she put her case to Vince McMahon that Jack Tunney should allow her husband to return to the ring. After public pressure, polls, letters and phone calls to the Federation's Titan Towers, Tunney relented and sanctioned a match for a pay-per-view called "Tuesday In Texas" which was to take place on the 3rd December,1991 in San Antonio. The match had the stipulation that all reptiles were to be barred from ringside and was over pretty quickly, which left Jake plenty of time to slide underneath the ring and collect the snake bag he had left there. Elizabeth (who had been backstage during the match) came to the ring and pleaded with Jake to leave them both alone. Jake (who had beaten Randy unconcious) grabbed Elizabeth by the hair and struck her across the face (unheard of in those days).

The links below take you to photos of the cobra attack on Randy, Elizabeth putting her reasons for Randy's reinstatement to Vince and still from "Tuesday In Texas".

The Wedding Reception.
The Cobra Attack.
Tuesday In Texas 1 - 3.
Tuesday In Texas 4 - 6.
Tuesday In Texas 7 - 8.
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