[1991-08-10-WWF-Superstars] Ultimate Warrior and Jake Roberts

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Jake and Warrior are at a graveyard, where Jake has Warrior digging a grave and finding a skull. Jake ends up burying Warrior alive this time around, and this is some really demented, drug-induced shit.

[Dooley]

I remember watching this as an 11 year old and being totally confused by it. Watching as an adult has not made it any easier to understand.

[PeteF3]

I'm a fan of working multiple programs at once but this business of Warrior going through this "training" and also hyping SummerSlam doesn't work at all. It could work easily, if the hype wasn't around Sid Justice and instead around the problems of whether Warrior is reliable in his current state, but I guess the WWF can only work so many storylines into a match at once. Jake regales us with how the Warrior now trusts him, and then we see Warrior digging a grave to what appears to be Hell, judging by the orange light down there. Warrior comes across the skull of poor Yorick--and now Jake says he has to bury the Warrior so he can bury his fear. Warrior is now much more enthusiastic about going along with this than he was about laying in the casket. This somehow was simultaneously the best and most bizarre of these segments.

[Kevin Ridge]

Jake really starting to embrace his dark side. Him and Warrior are hanging out in a graveyard. Warrior is apparently digging his own grave. I was hoping for Jake to smash Warrior in the head with a shovel. Roberts buries Warrior in the grave other then his head which is still visible. This was pretty crazy.

[soup23]

It does feel weird that you have all these multi layer angles going on with Warrior that is weird. They really should have ditched the main event and went Hogan/Warrior vs. Taker/Slaughter or two singles matches between those. I really liked the atmosphere and music of this one.

[garretta]

The fact that they didn't tie this angle in with the SummerSlam main event should tell you in hindsight that all wasn't what it appeared to be (read: Jake's turning heel). It would have been cool if Jake and Taker would have taken Adnan and Sheik's places in the handicap match just to get their hands on Warrior, and it would have made for a much better match. I wouldn't be surprised if Vince at least entertained that notion briefly, but once he started having contract problems with Warrior, I'm sure he just wanted to get the damn match over with and Warrior out of his sight for good (or so he thought at the time).

 

In an alternate universe, I could see Jake playing Kevin Sullivan to a heel stable consisting of Warrior, Taker, and possibly Papa Shango. He certainly sounds a bit like Sully here, although his spiel's much easer to understand. This may sound like heresy, but I think Jake might have gotten Taker over even better than Percy did; there was just a bit too much overacting in the Paul Bearer character for him to be taken seriously as the evil genius they wanted to portray him as.

[dawho5]

Up until now I have believed firmly that Jake could pull anything the WWF wrote for him off. Not everything, just most of it. Especially with the comparison to the Warrior/Hogan/Sid crap that aired on the same show, this does not work.