Jimmy Jacobs says AEW role ‘really doesn’t involve me writing wrestling TV’

Jimmy Jacobs has clarified his role backstage in AEW.

The 39-year-old was hired as a producer for the company in June 2023 after having been on the Impact Wrestling creative team for over five years. Before signing with Impact, Jacobs worked on the WWE creative team from 2015 until  2017 as well.

Jacobs appeared on the Developmentally Speaking podcast recently and said that his job in AEW doesn't involve him writing television. Rather, Jacobs says he performs more of an administrative role for the company. 

Jacobs said: 

Mostly what I do is I format the shows and I organize information and communicate. It was never supposed to be like a creative role. Like I said, I was burnt out at Impact, I was burnt out writing wrestling television every week.

My job at AEW really doesn't involve me writing wrestling television. It's far more admin. 

Earlier in the conversation, Jacobs opened up about feeling creatively burnt out in Impact Wrestling just before he left the company.

Jacobs said: 

I had done what I was going to do there. It kind of hurt, it hurt me to go. I knew my time there was over before I was going to AEW. I knew intuitively, this is done. I've done what I can do, it's been five and a half years. I felt creatively burnt out and they need new creative blood in the company to get it propelled.