Chris Jericho Comments On WWE Firing Jimmy Jacobs

A few weeks ago The Bullet Club invaded Raw, and during the invasion WWE writer Jimmy Jacobs made his way outside the arena to pose for a picture with his friends that he later posted on Instagram.

The picture didn’t go over very well with WWE management, as Jimmy was then fired. He’s since released some new shirts via Pro Wrestling Tees, and he also posed for another selfie with The Bullet Club at Global Wars over the weekend.

Some fans may not be that familiar with Jacobs due to the fact that he worked behind the scenes as a writer in WWE, but he helped to create some of the most memorable segments from Chris Jericho’s most recent run with the company.

During a recent interview with Metal-Injection.net, Jericho was asked about the firing, and while he said that he didn’t think posting the photo was the smartest move, he had a lot of praise for Jimmy’s work as a writer (via PWInsider).

“Jimmy’s good and if I was there I would’ve tried to help him out, but it’s not the smartest of moves. If I work at McDonalds and post a picture of me hanging out with guys from Wendy’s and hashtag ‘Wendy’s is great,’ McDonalds might not be too happy about it. I think Jimmy’s a smart guy and maybe wouldn’t surprise me if he knew something was going to happen. Maybe he was getting sick of it, I don’t know. I just know as soon as I saw that picture, I was just like ‘ooof,’ with the hashtag ‘#BCInvasion,’ you can’t do that man. I mean, you can’t. Was it a fireable offense? Well, it’s not my decision, obviously Vince thought it was, which tells me there was probably some other stuff going on and that was the final straw. And I will say this, last year, 2016, Jimmy Jacobs was my co-writer on all of it. All of it! And the weeks he wasn’t there I was like ‘Ah f**k, I don’t like this, I want Jimmy.’ So he’s very talented, and he really got me. I worked with him a few times and I went to [head writer] Dave Kapoor, I want Scoville, which is his real name, Chris Scoville, on every Jericho promo. No one else. Because that’s how much I trusted his talent, his instincts.”

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