Hacksaw Jim Duggan

vs.

Jake The Snake Roberts

Round One Matchup

The first match in the newly-restored Hasbro wrestling ring featured good friends and one-time comedy partners Jake The Snake Roberts and Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

 

Instead of attacking each other at the outset of the match, Roberts and Duggan decided to shake hands like men, and wish each other the best of the luck in the first-round tournament match.

 

Unfortunately, there was one thing Duggan forgot... never trust a snake!

 

Before Hacksaw could figure out what hit him, The Snake suckerpunched his so-called friend in the gut.

 

Doubled-over and in pain, Roberts took his time measuring Duggan with lefts and rights, keeping the native of Glens Falls, New York down.

 

Then, when Duggan was most vulnerable, Jake used the ropes as a foreign object, choking Hacksaw with them and more and less ignoring the referee's instructions.

Finally, Hacksaw couldn't take any more. Infuriated that he'd been betrayed by The Snake, Duggan began rallying with a crazed look in his eye.

 

With Roberts on the offensive, Duggan hammered his opponent with fists and clotheslines. Then, in a fit of rage, Duggan scooped up Roberts and placed him upside down in the corner. Hacksaw began kicking The Snake in the gut until the referee separated the two. 

 

Duggan felt he was ready to put Roberts away....

Hacksaw stood back and waited for The Snake to recover. As Roberts got to his feet, Duggan stomped his feet and prepared to tackle his opponent from his patented three-point stance.

 

But something happened as Duggan charged -- The Snake moved out of the way! Woozy and out of his element, Duggan was pulled into a short-arm clothesline by Roberts. Then The Snake put Duggan into a front face-lock, briefly posed for this photo, and slammed down with a devastating DDT.

 

One.... Two.... Three! Your winner.... Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

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