During his chat with The Insiders podcast, former WWE creative team member Jimmy Jacobs reflected on his removal from the company in 2017.
Featured below are the highlights from the podcast.
On The Bullet Club's "invasion" of Monday Night Raw:
“I knew it wasn’t gonna be received well, that’s for sure. I was in the arena and I think Kevin Owens texted me, ‘Hey are The Bucks there? Are they there?’ And I hadn’t heard anything about it from inside the arena. He goes ‘Yeah, I think they’re outside. I think they’re shooting something.’ So I went out there, and it’s like ‘Holy crap, The Bucks are here,’ and I just saw them, we exchanged pleasantries, and just as I was getting ready to leave I said ‘Hey guys, let’s take a picture,’ and I took a picture, never intending to post it.”
On his decision to post the photo:
“I was in gorilla position during segment 3 or 4 and I just go ‘screw it’ and I just post it. I knew there was a chance people wouldn’t like it. I didn’t care. I look back at it and I really see it almost like a child acting out. ‘I want to get in trouble.'”
On the idea behind his decision to post the photo:
“I wanted to get in trouble and them be like ‘well he’s good at his job, so let’s keep him around.’ I wanted to just expand my wings. I wanted to go [exasperated sigh] ‘let me just be how I am, however weird that is,’ so I took the picture.”
On getting a call to visit the Human Resources office:
“I remember going ‘if I make it through today I’ll be fine.’ Then first thing in the morning, an administrative assistant comes to me and is like ‘yeah, can you come meet Dave in HR office.’ I remember being by the elevator and thinking ‘this is it, this is the day I’m getting fired from WWE.’ Like what a day! ‘What an exciting, noteworthy day today is.’ Not every day is like that. So yeah, they fired me. It was mostly a relief.”
