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Jim Johnston Says He Was Pushed Out Of WWE, Recalls Final Meeting Where He Was Fired

March 18, 2019 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

– Jim Johnston spoke with the Total Engagement podcast with Matt Koon about his WWE run, being released from the company and more. You can check out the highlights below (transcript per Fightful):

On knowing that this time in WWE was coming to an end: “I was getting cut out. That was by design. Not necessarily Vince’s design, but other folks. It’s his company, he can do whatever the hell he wants with it. It isn’t like he owes me a job. I knew this was coming to an end and particularly maybe for the last year, I knew the writing was on the wall. This guy has pushed me out, but you know I was so discouraged by it all and I wasn’t doing what I want to do, which is to write great music and I am a worker. I don’t want a job where I don’t have to work. There wasn’t ever a millisecond where I thought, ‘Wow, isn’t this great? I’m really not doing that much music, but they’re continuing to pay me! Oh my God, what a great deal!’ It was awful. I hate that. I hated that feeling. I’ve got handcuffs on, I can’t contribute and I eventually told Vince that as well. I said, ‘this is not right.’ I also told him at the time, ‘Hey, if you’re unhappy with me, fire me. Fire me right now. You can fire me right now. I’m taking the pressure off. Go ahead. Fire me.”

On his final meeting with McMahon: “I had my one meeting with Vince and ultimately nothing changed and then suddenly I got a meet and planner one day that I had a meeting in Vince’s office the next afternoon and I knew in an instant, ‘Okay tomorrow at four, I’m being fired.’ It was a scary time, but it was a very brief event because after he said his piece I was like, ‘okay’ and I stood up and left.”

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