{"id":49871,"date":"2017-10-24T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=49871"},"modified":"2017-10-24T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:36:58","slug":"interview-highlights-jimmy-jacobs-says-ready-got-ears-re-pierced-fired-shortly-thereafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/10\/24\/interview-highlights-jimmy-jacobs-says-ready-got-ears-re-pierced-fired-shortly-thereafter\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Highlights: Jimmy Jacobs says he was ready to be himself again, got ears re-pierced, was fired shortly thereafter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2215794480\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>In his first interview since his release from the WWE, Jimmy Jacobs spoke to The LAW podcast to discuss the circumstances surrounding his release, his time with the WWE, and his upcoming appearance for the Lucha T.O. card in Toronto this Sunday.\u00a0The full interview is available <a href=\"http:\/\/fightnetwork.com\/law\/exclusive-interview-jimmy-jacobs\/\">HERE<\/a>. The following excerpts were supplied to PWTorch by The LAW&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On being hired as writer and not as a wrestler to WWE:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<\/strong>I had a very, what\u2019s the word, spiritual experience. Honestly, probably a couple months before you and I talked back in October 2014. July 2014 I had a bit of a spiritual experience and decided or was called to, however you want to put this, that being creative was where I was meant to end up. So, in that level of things, I mourned my career, my wrestling career, and I was completely at terms and ready to go and move on and work behind the scenes. Now, that was all well and good for maybe the first six months I was there and wrestling was completely behind me, the idea of being in front of the camera completely behind me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, one day I\u2019m producing a backstage with Chris Jericho and Shane McMahon, I believe, and we were just getting the cameras ready and, as we\u2019re setting up, we\u2019re camera-testing the shot and I stood in for Chris Jericho for a like second, just to see how the whole thing would look, I stood in for him and then Shane comes in and we start doing this promo for the first ten seconds of the promo just to see how it\u2019s going to look and then we go and play it on the screen and then I see how I look on the monitor and I was like I look good on that monitor, don\u2019t I? That was the first seed of like, &#8220;Oh man, you know what would be nice?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-tag\" data-ad-name=\"pw_incontent_2\" data-ad-size=\"300x250\" ><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/tags-cdn.deployads.com\/a\/pwtorch.com.js\" async ><\/script><br \/>\n<script>(deployads = window.deployads || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, there was moments like that. It certainly wasn\u2019t overwhelming like a driving force throughout my two-and-a-half years there, but there were definitely certain moments like that, there were certain moments of frustration where I\u2019m working on promos with guys and I\u2019m like no, just do it like this, here\u2019s how I\u2019d do it, that, do it like that, and it\u2019s like there\u2019s one too many people in this process. It\u2019s almost just like, just let me go out there and cut the promo. So, there were moments like that. There were times that were bittersweet but at its best, it was a great time there too, but I\u2019m good with it now, I\u2019m good.\u201d<strong><\/p>\n<p>The talent accepting him because of his wrestling background:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cAutomatic no. The truth is that when you come to WWE, it kind of doesn\u2019t matter what you did before then, you know? Everybody there is proving themselves all over again. A guy like A.J. Styles who had his great debut on Raw has to prove himself all over again, everybody does so I was to prove myself all over again and in a different capacity. Certainly I had a bit more of rapport with the guys that I\u2019ve worked with for years, but look at it this way; I go in there and work with, let\u2019s say, Seth Rollins. I mean, how many times has Jimmy Jacobs opened Monday Night Raw with a promo? Zero. Seth Rollins has done it dozens and dozens and dozens of times so it\u2019s hard for me to actually speak with authority. Certainly, it\u2019s not off the bats with, &#8220;Hey, maybe this, maybe this, maybe this,&#8221; that\u2019s something that\u2019s earned still. So while I did have it a bit different, I think there were people that were happy to see somebody with a wrestling background on the writing team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did have to prove myself and that\u2019s not to say anything. I do want to say this and I don\u2019t want to talk all about WWE stuff, that\u2019s about the truth, but I think there\u2019s a certain perception of what the writers are in WWE and who they are and they have no experience in the wrestling business. The fact is they do have a lot of experience in the wrestling business because they\u2019re in the wrestling business and they\u2019re in the TV business and they\u2019re in the entertainment business, they\u2019re in the business we\u2019re in. It took me probably about an hour my first day in the writer\u2019s room and then I realized like oh man all these guys are super smart, all of them are, and everybody\u2019s got their different things that they&#8217;re skilled at and proficient at and good at; some guys are better at comedy, some guys are better at straight up hardcore meeting promos, some guys will give you nice short stuff. I mean, there\u2019s so much content when we write and these guys all have so many different good ideas. The writers there, look, unless you\u2019ve been in that room and unless you\u2019ve walked a mile in those shoes, nobody has any idea what that\u2019s about.\u201d<strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2318894827\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The firing:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not something I\u2019m going to get into but I\u2019ll say this, no mistake was made. I am A-OK with the way that everything went down.\u201d<strong><\/p>\n<p>Picture with Bullet Club as reason for firing:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was given to me as the reason. I read a couple reports from a couple different places saying that there were things leading up to it, that this was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. If it was, I\u2019m not aware of any of that and it\u2019s certainly possible, who knows, but yeah it was because of the picture, for sure.\u201d<strong><\/p>\n<p>If he likes not being attached to WWE schedule anymore:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cI love it. It\u2019s not even just the schedule, I didn\u2019t mind the schedule man, I didn\u2019t mind the work, it wasn\u2019t work, it was life. It was a seven day a week job and it was a life and I didn\u2019t mind it being a life so it\u2019s not the schedule; there\u2019s a certain appreciation of the freedom otherwise. I\u2019ll put it this way, when I started this job, I took my earrings out because you\u2019re supposed to look nice. The morning before I went in to work two weeks ago, I went and I re-got my ears pierced, I got them re-pierced, they\u2019ve been out for two-and-a-half years. Later that day was the day I got fired. My point in saying that is I was ready to be me again.\u201d<strong><\/p>\n<p>If he sensed the firing was coming:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cNo. I was ready to be me again no matter what the circumstances, you know what I mean? If they had not fired me, I was going to walk in with my ears pierced and my hair, you know. There\u2019s a certain way things are done there and there\u2019s a nice freedom now, I\u2019ve got my fingernails painted again, I\u2019ve got my earrings back in and like the zombie coming out of the grave, Jimmy Jacobs, the Zombie Princess, is back from the dead.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3738191693\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-663164343\"><div id=\"pwtor-1610217363\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In his first interview since his release from the WWE, Jimmy Jacobs spoke to The LAW podcast to discuss the circumstances surrounding his release, his time with the WWE, and his upcoming appearance for the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/10\/24\/interview-highlights-jimmy-jacobs-says-ready-got-ears-re-pierced-fired-shortly-thereafter\/\" title=\"Interview Highlights: Jimmy Jacobs says he was ready to be himself again, got ears re-pierced, was fired shortly thereafter\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-interview-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2017\/10\/JacobsJimmy_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49901,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49871\/revisions\/49901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}