Jimmy Jacobs recently appeared on Straight Talk Wrestling to discuss a wide range of topics, which included the current AEW producer giving his thoughts on being inducted into the GCW Indie Hall of Fame.
Jacobs, who previously worked for IMPACT and WWE in a creative position, admitted that he had mixed feelings about being an inductee in the Indie Hall of Fame because it felt like he sort of never made it to the big time even though he’s worked for all the top companies.
Yeah, it’s interesting man (going into GCW Indie Hall of Fame) and I touched upon it in my Hall of Fame speech. I don’t know if people understood exactly what I was saying at the beginning of it. But, as a wrestler, we’re all our own worst critics on some level. Actually, when I first got the text from Brett (Lauderdale), I thought he was gonna ask me to induct Alex Shelley. I thought that was what he was going to ask me first and then he said, ‘Would you wanna go in this?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ But then I had a lot of different feelings about it. It’s like the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame. There’s no bigger consolation prize for mediocre careers than out of all the guys that didn’t quite make it on the mainstream level, you’re at the top of that. It’s like a real back-handed compliment to the insecure part of you, right?
He later says that he felt like there were plenty of people who should have gone in ahead of him before realizing that he worked hard to earn that honor.
And then you go, well, there’s like 100 guys that should be getting in this before me. But then you just go, well it’s cool. It’s cool that someone is acknowledging you and I think on some level, that’s all-all of us want, right? We all just wanna be seen by the people in front of us. We all just want a certain amount of validation. Sometimes it comes from a place of lack but sometimes it’s just what we are. We’re the kind of beings that want to see other people and be seen by them. I say that in the Avatar sense. I see you, capital ‘S’, in the sense of namaste. The divine in me sees the divine in you. I see past all the insecurities and the walls that we build up and I see the unique expression that you are, right? Because we’re all unique expressions of this one consciousness that underlies reality and I think we all just want that. We all just want for the people around us to go, hey, you’re okay. You go, yeah? Am I okay? Yes? I am? I don’t have to keep putting on a show for you? I don’t have to bring out all my coping mechanisms? I don’t have to put on this face and pretend I’m this character anymore? I can just be with you and my existence is just enough? Just me being me? And I think that’s all we want and so in that sense, it’s a long way of saying, it was nice to be acknowledged and you don’t know how the people see you, right?
He ends his rant by saying that it was nice to be acknowledged by his peers in the industry.
You don’t know how the people see your career at all and especially, I’ve got a real complicated relationship with my career. I’ve seen a lot of my friends go on to make a ton of money and perform at the absolute height of the business and I go, I never really did that and it’s like, sometimes I feel like my whole career is a consolation prize of going, oh yeah, but you didn’t quite, but you didn’t quite and so it is nice to be acknowledged even if it is just like, hey, you’re a charity case. Jimmy will appreciate this. Let’s acknowledge him which maybe that’s what it is (Jacobs smiled). I don’t know, right?
The full interview can be found here.
(H/T and transcribed by Post Wrestling)
