All Elite Wrestling Star Lance Archer recently appeared on “The Wrestling Perspective” podcast, where he talked about what it’s like to have WWE Hall of Famer and pro wrestling legend Jake Roberts as his manager and how Jake Roberts is a guy that everyone knows and can associate with as well as how he is someone who could cut a promo and tell your story even with being physical.
Lance Archer said:
“A couple of different people were brought up, and Jake was the one that I felt matched the most with me just physically and style and things like that. I understood it.”
“The fans are a lot smarter, and we did have a lot of fans that knew the New Japan product. But AEW was still an American product, a Western product. There were a lot of fans that hadn’t watched New Japan, and I’ve been out of the American wrestling scene for nearly nine years. Even when I first started, people were like, ‘Oh, is that the dude from Rock and Rave?’ That’s how far back they were thinking. They’re like, ‘Oh my God, that was like 12 or 15 years ago that happened.’ So they hadn’t seen me. They didn’t know me. They didn’t know this version of me.”
“Jake is a legend. He’s somebody that everybody knows and can associate with one way or another generationally, and he can talk like no other. I like to believe that I can cut a pretty decent promo, and I’ve gotten a lot better at it, but that was never my strong suit. My strong suit was being that intimidating force in the ring. Jake was a guy that could cut that promo and tell your story without even doing anything physically.”
You can check out Lance Archer's full comments at this link. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
