Jake Roberts’ time in AEW, working each onscreen as Lance Archer’s supervisor and offscreen as a coach, has given him the chance to reconnect with a number of abilities he labored with over the course of his legendary profession. And a type of abilities is none apart from Dustin Rhodes, who Roberts wrestled in each WCW and WWE and who aldo finds himself within the twin function of on and offscreen performer.

On the newest episode of “The Snake Pit,” Roberts and co-host Marcus DeAngelo rewatched one in all Roberts’ outdated matches with Rhodes throughout their WCW run. Roberts got here away impressed upon viewing the bout once more, which was no shock given how extremely he thinks of Rhodes.

“Dustin Rhodes might be some of the underrated wrestlers on the market,” Roberts mentioned. “He can do all of it; he is been doing all of it for years. He will get proper there near the highest, however by no means fairly will get all of it. And so they miss the boat. Typically your finest staff aren’t the fellows in the primary occasion.”

Roberts additionally believes that Rhodes is simply as worthwhile in his teaching function, and appeared to point that Rhodes was a key determine in serving to out with the AEW ladies’s division, to the purpose he could also be irreplaceable.

“He just about runs all the ladies’s stuff,” Roberts mentioned. “That is simply…he is performed an unimaginable job, unbelievable job. It is identical to his ringwork. Unbelievable, unimaginable. So what are you going to do? He is very lucky to be in that spot, and there ain’t no person that is going to succeed him until he desires to get out, ‘trigger these ladies love him. They love him to demise, man.”

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