Jacob "Jake" Hager (born March 24, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he works under the name Jack Swagger on the Raw brand.
Before debuting on the ECW brand, Hager worked in the WWE developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he was the inaugural FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion. In WWE, he is a one-time world heavyweight champion having won the ECW C...
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Jacob "Jake" Hager (born March 24, 1982) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he works under the name Jack Swagger on the Raw brand.
Before debuting on the ECW brand, Hager worked in the WWE developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he was the inaugural FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion. In WWE, he is a one-time world heavyweight champion having won the ECW Championship in January 2009.
Hager was recruited to the University of Oklahoma as a two-sport athlete. Hager played football, and was the second string defensive tackle behind current National Football League players, Tommie Harris and Dusty Dvoracek. Due to his high-school wrestling background, he was asked to join the wrestling team in his sophomore year as a heavyweight, and switched over full-time. During his junior year, he met Jim Ross, who was then World Wrestling Entertainment's Head of Talent Relations, and Ross encouraged Hager to...
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