This WWE Hall of Famer went under the knife recently.
In a new update on her X account, pro wrestling legend Leilani Kai asked fans to keep Jake Roberts in their thoughts “as he goes in for hip revision surgery.”
“Thinking of Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts this morning as he goes in for hip revision surgery. Sending love to Jake and Cheryl Roberts. Wishing him a smooth surgery and a strong, steady recovery ahead,” she posted.
Roberts previously underwent heart ablation surgery in May 2025 to correct an arrhythmia (an abnormal heartbeat). The WWE Hall of Famer also had a bronchoscopy to address complications from COPD and double pneumonia.
Jake Roberts is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling. One of his last appearances for the promotion came when he traded Brian Cage and Lance Archer to Don Callis in exchange for La Facción Ingobernable (Rush, The Beast Mortos, and Dralistico).
Jake Roberts gave WWE’s Cody Rhodes a promo master class
Reigning Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes was a guest on the All The Smoke podcast. Apart from the other things he discussed, he also talked about his favorite wrestler to work with in the ring.
While he said John Cena was an obvious answer, Cody Rhodes named Jake Roberts as someone he loved being in the ring with. Rhodes stated that a single promo segment with the legend helped him learn a lot.
“I mean, John (Cena), obviously John, but I’m trying to think of something that, I’ll tell you one that I learned a lot from in a very short amount of time, was Jake Roberts, Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts.
“I learned a lot from him in just a single promo. In a single promo, I learned how a guy can basically cut your legs, but if you’re strong enough as a character, you can stand to that. But if you weren’t, he was going to move past you.
“The real side of what we do, the competition on who gets to the top, that’s all very, very real. Just the other parts of it are not, and I learned a great deal from working with him. I don’t share that with him enough because it was just one night that we had this interview, and I thought I just got a master class, and had I not had my feet planted in this ground, this guy would’ve just eaten me up and moved on. But he was one that I thought was really special.”
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