In my first fight, I acknowledged it. I’m a professional wrestler, this is who I am, who you know me as. But guess what, I’ve also been wrestling since I was 5 years old – real wrestling – amateur wrestling, Olympic wrestling. Jake Hager Read Quote
I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background. Jake Hager Read Quote
From the beginning, make no mistakes, I’m a prizefighter and doing this for the money. Money first. And then championships. Jake Hager Read Quote
I’ve heard that I’m a wrestler and not a real fighter, but I have nothing to prove to anybody. Jake Hager Read Quote
I am Jack Swagger. My background, it’s there for the world to see, and you look at MMA today, you look at boxing today, you look at professional kickboxing today, you need that entertainment value. You want people to relate to you as a character, as a personality. Honestly, that’s what they’re going to remember. Jake Hager Read Quote
In addition to being gifted athletically and being the strongest guy in the room, Cesaro is very smart upstairs. He can go in the back and wrestle a match out in his head, then he’ll add his Cesaro-isms in the ring to really make the match special. He knows exactly where to put things and make a match explosive. Jake Hager Read Quote
MMA is very difficult; you can’t just be good at wrestling. You need striking, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu and countless other things. Jake Hager Read Quote
I’m a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, ‘Oh my God, here’s another TV character trying to run for the presidency.’ They didn’t really take him seriously. Jake Hager Read Quote
