Former WWE writer Jimmy Jacobs was recently a guest on Chris Jericho’s podcast: ‘Talk is Jericho’. Jacobs spoke on a wide variety of topics about his career, including the storyline pitch that got him hired by WWE.
During the podcast, Jacobs also spoke about 205 Live. This includes Vince McMahon’s original feelings about the show and the reasons why Jacobs doesn’t think that it has worked so far.
Here is what Jacobs said:
“Vince was really excited about 205 Live when it first started, but I really think in a lot of ways, but they were in a really tough position, right off the bat. First off, being on at 10 p.m., after 2 hours of SmackDown without any stars, so it is really hard to create stars from non-stars. You need somebody that people know. I need to know that Noam Dar has at least met Chris Jericho, they are in completely different universes”
Jacobs continued, talking about there being no demand for the show from fans:
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“Other thing is that there’s really no demand for the show. Look, this isn’t 20 years ago when WCW at the top of the card was Kevin Nash, Hulk Hogan, Big Show, or Lex Luger; you had Jericho, Rey Mysterio; I mean, the top of the WWE card those guys can go. Seth Rollins does the 205 Live style better than the 205 Live guys do, so where is the demand? Now you see smaller guys, lesser stars, doing stuff not really as good as those on the main roster. John Cena is even doing Springboard Diamond Cutters; that style has really permeated on the main roster. It’s a really tough position they are in. I give those guys a lot of credit from the talents to the Writer’s. It was and is a really tough job.”
An interesting take, what do you think of his comments?
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