Chris Jericho Comments On WWE Firing Jimmy Jacobs (aka The Man Responsible For ‘The List’)

Chris Jericho was recently interviewed on Metal Injection’s ‘Squared Circle Pit’. During the interview Jericho spoke about the recent firing of WWE writer: Jimmy Jacobs. If you missed the news last week, Jacobs was rumored to have been fired after taking a photo with the Bullet Club during their ‘invasion’ of RAW.

Jacobs also happens to be the guy who Jericho credits for coming up with ‘The List’.

Here is what Jericho had to say about WWE firing Jacobs:

“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.

Jericho says that Jacobs played a massive role in his most recent run with WWE, serving as his main writer:

“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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