Jimmy Jacobs Interview: Talks about surgery, WSX on MTV, much more

Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 9:28 PM EST

The following was transcribed by Andy J. of wrestlingweekly.com:

On April 10th, Wrestling Weekly hosts Doc Young and guest co-host ’Irish’ Pete Doyle were joined by Wrestling Society X and Ring of Honor‘s Jimmy Jacobs. Wrestling Weekly airs every Tuesday at 8pm Eastern at www.wrestlingweekly.com.

The discussion gets to Jimmy Jacobs last match for six to nine months, which is April 14th in Pittsburgh. Jimmy states he pulled his ACL and needs to have surgery, which is scheduled for April 20th. Doc mentions that everytime he sees Jimmy in person, that Jimmy is suffering somehow. Jimmy Jacobs says that despite the injury, he’s looking forward to some time off. Doc notes that Jimmy has gone 2 years straight working a show every week, Jacobs highlights that over the past five years he’s only had a few weekends off. Jimmy Jacobs talks about his injury, saying he didn’t do anything crazy, stating, “it was just normal stuff…wear and tear…". He continues by saying a torn ACL is a fairly common injury and Jacobs notes if he wanted to still wrestle he could and refers to Stone Cold Steve Austin who wore a knee brace for years. One he gets surgery and rehabs, Jimmy Jacobs highlights, “it will be back to 100% and be normal…".

Jimmy Jacobs then talks about Wrestling Society X, and that the exploding cage match finale episode won’t be shown by MTV, but Jimmy says it is “pretty crazy". Jacobs talks about the lack of promotion for WSX, no commercials for the show and no appearances on Total Request Live (TRL), which he notes would have been in the best interests of MTV to have Jack Evans and Teddy Hart on TRL. Jimmy Jacobs mentions the changes at MTV and Doc refers to an interview with Lizzy Valentine where she stated most of the team responsible for Wrestling Society X have been fired. Jimmy talks about the presentation and the matches on WSX being edited and in his opinion mistakes were made like editing five matches down to three, filming the audience instead and the explosions. Jimmy highlights further by saying the explosions looked “really cheesy". The exploding cage match from the season finale is then discussed, which Jacobs says is an awesome match, although “once the explosions happen…, you get the camera shaking and everything, which cheapens it…". Doc mentions that WSX was catered for MTV fans and Jimmy agrees and mentions the matches on WSX Xtra are more for the wrestling fans. ‘Irish’ Pete Doyle talks about when he was WWE working with MTV on ‘Sunday Night Heat’ where he notes, “MTV was so bad at handling and understanding the wrestling business". Jimmy states that Big Vision Entertainment had to explain to MTV how wrestling works. Doc says that Jimmy Jacobs teamed up with Tyler Black in Wrestling Society X for a tag team called D.I.F.H (Doin' It For Her). Doc discusses the tag team with Jimmy in more detail, where Jacobs says he liked teaming with Tyler a lot.

Bryan Alvarez (F4W) is then discussed, who wrestled on the March "Fight Sports Midwest" card along with Jimmy. Jacobs then tells the story about what happened at the show with Bryan. Jimmy Jacobs talks about his match with the late Eddie Guerrero and refers to what Bryan Alvarez wrote about him in his newsletter. Jimmy then discusses travelling in wrestling with Pete Doyle, where Pete states, “if you love this business, you do it".

Doc asks Jimmy Jacobs if he still be involved with the shows and helping out, Jimmy replies saying “absolutely“. Jimmy continues by saying he has almost all his weekends booked for the next couple of months doing managing and color commentary. Jacobs says he is grateful to the people for taking care of him and says he is really looking forward to being a manager. Doc wishes Jimmy Jacobs a speedy recovery and to check Jimmy out on the Ring of Honor DVD’s, which are available on www.rohwrestling.com.
For more on Jimmy Jacobs, visit his official Myspace page at www.myspace.com/jimmyjacobs

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