Jimmy Jacobs Details What Happened The Day He Was Fired By WWE

It was a matter of minutes before Jacobs’s photo came to the attention of various WWE officials. 

“25 minutes later, Michael Hayes, Road Dogg, Dave Kapoor (fka Ranjin Singh) come to the room,” Jacobs explained, “they kick everybody else out. Dave’s like ‘why am I seeing this?’ I’m like ‘yeah well I wasn’t thinking.’ Hunter’s pissed about it.” 

Jacobs says that he went to Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s office, where the now-WWE Chief Content Officer was “cool” about the situation, though also stern. “He wasn’t happy about it but he was cool about it. Hunter’s a reasonable guy. Hunter’s a smart guy too. It was Hunter’s vision that saw independent wrestlers could be successful and really started to target them. Hunter’s a smart guy and he’s a reasonable guy but he was upset about this. So I talked to him, he seemed fine with it.” 

Jacobs says that he then continued traveling to WWE tv broadcasts, and didn’t end up back at the main WWE office until a week and a half after the photo. “I remember going ‘if I make it through today I’ll be fine,'” Jacobs confessed. “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.” 

Jacobs says that the relief came from the freedom that came with his release. “I didn’t have to think about how I was gonna leave ever, and feel trapped there. All that sort of stuff.”

Looking back on the incident, Jacobs believed he was acting out so that he no longer had to ‘feel confined’ like he was during his tenure in WWE.