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Jimmy Jacobs addresses ‘misconceptions’ & ‘lies’ about his AEW role, could return to company
Former AEW employee & creative team member Jimmy Jacobs spoke publicly for the first time since leaving the company last year, airing an litany of frustrations about the online narratives around his…
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Former AEW employee & creative team member Jimmy Jacobs spoke publicly for the first time since leaving the company last year, airing an litany of frustrations about the online narratives around his role there and his future.
Speaking to WrestleMobs/BodySlam.net (video below), Jacobs said there have been “a lot of misconceptions about my time in AEW and my role there,” something he said he experienced even after he left WWE when there was a narrative that he was a leak which he said he “100% was not.”
After joining the company in June 2023 as a producer, Jacobs left AEW in October 2024 as he wanted to take a break from wrestling altogether. He confirmed that he was a member of the creative team, but in an admin role that fans and even wrestlers didn’t understand, even dating back to his time at WWE.
“I would challenge anyone to name one segment I wrote or produced at AEW to then criticize. I didn’t. I was not my job there, like at all,” he said.
Jacobs said his role was being a “channel for information.” He was around Tony Khan all the time and they would talk on the phone during the week. As ideas evolved, his role was to organize those ideas and give details to the appropriate people at the appropriate time, be it talent, producers, technical people, travel, props, etc.
He said he also was in charge of formatting TV scripts and after Khan would provide ideas, he would do a first draft and would help craft TV shows, but that ultimately, everything was up to Khan. He did similar work for TNA, saying he would help creatively with less of coming up with ideas and more managing ideas.
“My creative fingerprints weren’t on (AEW), almost at all,” he said, earlier saying that it was untrue that he was involved in bringing supernatural stories to AEW like he worked on in TNA.
“The record needs to be set straight. I am going to tell the truth. I wasn’t writing AEW TV at all,” he said, later adding he did collaborate with Chris Jericho in his last few months with the company and there was “some creative fingerprints” but not to the capacity people might think when he says that.
Jacobs later said he is likely to go to work with WWE, AEW or TNA in the “fairly near future.” He confirmed he had worked with Scott D’Amore on Maple Leaf Wrestling and if he was available going forward, he would work with him again. He said like with WWE, AEW or TNA, he has never had a contract per se and just a working agreement.
It’s possible that AEW could be that return spot as Jacobs said that Khan was “very kind and accommodating” when he decided to step away and “welcomed me back whenever I want and I deeply appreciate that.”
Jacobs was complimentary of Khan throughout the interview, saying he “has had a positive effect on the wrestling business that can’t be understated” and that it’s the best time to be a wrestler since 1999 due to the amount of jobs and money that is being made.
He said Khan takes his role in the ecosystem very seriously and that “so many jobs revolve around what he does and the decisions he makes. He takes that seriously.”
A quote that originally came out from the interview about how Khan and Jacobs would listen to Jim Cornette podcasts while on the road cannot be found in the interview itself. We are attempting to gain clarity on that.
