Jimmy Smith: We’re Going To See Exactly How It Works At The Executive Level Of WWE
Jimmy Smith is curious to see the results of the investigation.
Jimmy Smith wants no association with the investigation of top WWE executives.
Much like Pat McAfee, Jimmy Smith doesn’t really know what’s going on with the Vince McMahon investigation. During the 6/17 edition of Smith’s podcast, Unlocking The Cage, he commented on the ongoing situation and made it very clear that he doesn’t want to be associated with the investigation.
“[There are] two places you can be in a production meeting. You can sit next to Vince McMahon or you can sit across from Vince McMahon. I am one of the people that sits across from Vince McMahon, all of the producers and commentators, we all sit on one side and [the other side] goes over the matches. People are sitting next to Vince and people are sitting across from Vince. What is going to get investigated over the next couple months is the culture and the communication between the people who sit next to Vince McMahon. That is what is going to get looked at. Why? A culture is hard to hide. You can hide an act, you can do something and make a mistake and you can make amends for that mistake and all of these things, you can do that. It’s what is going on communication wise behind the scenes. They’re going to be looking at the executive culture of the WWE. The good news, from my perspective, is that I have spent five minutes total talking to any executive in WWE. They don’t really have any reason to talk to me. It’s one of those things where people ask me all the time, ‘Oh, what’s Dana White like?’. How should I know? I never spoke to Dana White. I talked to him for a grand total of five minutes for the whole year I was there. He doesn’t have any reason to talk to me. Have I heard much more from Vince McMahon? Yeah but it’s all been about hey, Money In The Bank is this date da-da-da, make sure to say this and that. It’s all about the nuts and bolts of the show. It’s never ‘Hey, let’s hang out and get something to eat’. It doesn’t work that way folks. I never did that with anybody. Not Dana White, not Scott Coker. There’s a real line in sports and sports entertainment to the people sitting at the top, the executives, and the people doing their job in a particular place.”
Smith went on and noted that he has only interacted with people like John Laurinatis and Bruce Prichard on a handful of occasions.
“John Laurinatis is another guy who’s obviously been named in this article that may be involved in this or whatever. Hey, nice guy in the two times I’ve spoken to him and shook his hand and went ‘Hey, how ya doing?’. Bruce Prichard, nice guy. The handful of times I’ve had to speak to [him] about something and ask him a question, really nice guy. He’s on Dark Side Of The Ring. If you’ve seen him talk, nice dude. But I don’t know how it works, I’m not on the private jet, I’m not doing any of that stuff. So as an employee/fan, I’m really curious to see what’s going on. Because we’re not gonna see what’s going on for a couple of months until this investigation is complete. Once they look and once they hire an outside investigator, someone not part of the company, which they did. They hired an outside law firm, it’s up to them to due their due diligence. They don’t wanna do a sloppy job because it reflects on them. We’ll see what comes out and we’ll see exactly how it works at the executive level of the WWE. That is going to be under a lot of scrutiny over the next couple of months.”
Jimmy Smith hasn’t been shy about commenting on WWE controversies before, as he recently gave his thoughts about Sasha Banks and Naomi walking out of WWE. Click here to learn more.
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