“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.”

American slap fighter and professional wrestler

Donald Jacob Hager Jr. is an American slap fighter, semi-retired professional wrestler, retired amateur wrestler, and mixed martial artist. He is best known for performing in WWE as Jack Swagger and later in All Elite Wrestling as Jake Hager. In mixed martial arts, he was signed to Bellator MMA and competed as a heavyweight. His career has moved between wrestling and combat sports, with his best known work coming in major professional wrestling promotions under the names Jack Swagger and Jake Hager.