Sam Houston

A Wrestler Coming to Terms With His Past

Sam Houston has seen the gamut of the wrestling business and life from battling demons and doing hard time in prison. The brother of Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Rockin' Robin now seeks personal salvation, something that will allow him to come to terms with his past.

Early Life

"When I knew I was going to wrestle, I was in the second grade. That’s when I first started knocking around the ring.”

During his junior year in high school, Michael came down with an infection in his throat. Doctors decided to remove his tonsils, which was a common procedure for young people in those days. But what might not be as known is that this type of surgery is quite dangerous.

Michael walked into the office in Tampa, Florida, to talk to Dusty. When he walked back out, he was renamed Sam Houston from Texas, baby, from Waco, Texas (in my best Dusty lisp). He had his first match in front of a crowd the next night against Charlie Cooke, who he knew from his father’s booking days in Louisiana.

Breaking Into Wrestling and Becoming Sam Houston

Working The Territories

Sam Houston would leave the CWF, pursuing the road to new territories like most workers. He made his way to Mid-Atlantic, where the Crocketts put him to work against their top heels at that time.

Marrying Baby Doll and Getting a Shot in the WWF

Sam Houston married Nickla Roberts, better known as the valet Baby Doll to wrestling fans, in 1986. A year later, he got his shot at the WWF in St. Louis, against Sika. From there, his career was off and running.

"I was drinking three-fifths of whiskey a day sometimes. I had been in and out of the twenty-eight-day rehabs, and that didn’t work for me. It was the prison rehab that worked for me."

Sam Houston on His Life Slipping Out of Control and Doing Time in Jail

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