Jimmy Jacobs Opens Up About Signing With AEW

Jimmy Jacobs recently appeared as a guest on AEW Unrestricted for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling. During the discussion, Jacobs commented on coming to AEW:

โ€œAEW is great. Itโ€™s a madhouse. Welcome to madness, though. For the last year, I was living in Georgia. I bought about seven acres out in the middle of nowhere. Working for IMPACT Wrestling, thatโ€™s just a couple weekends a month. I was working on a farm a couple days a week. I was living that life and I was like, โ€˜This is a little too mellow for me. I need to get thrown in the blender and whirl around into chaosโ€™, and apparently thatโ€™s what Iโ€™m best adapted for, so AEW is my home right now.โ€

โ€œItโ€™s what Iโ€™ve been doing most of my life up until 2020 when things slowed down. Thatโ€™s the first time things slowed down for me in my career since I was about 18. Iโ€™m used to it. Iโ€™m used to the chaos. I revel in the chaos.โ€

โ€œAs far as how I got here, Bryan Danielson called me and said, โ€˜Hey, weโ€™re starting a second show and we need someone in the chaos.โ€™ Iโ€™m great in the chaos. They needed someone who was going to be at all the shows, like someone who has the aptitude that I have. There are others who have the aptitude I have that can do what I do. Iโ€™m not particularly special, but also I have no life. So it was like, โ€˜Hey, can you just be on the road whenever.โ€™โ€

You can check out the complete podcast below:


(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)