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WWE really likes to keep its fans on the edge of their seats and on their toes.
Jake Hager
Fans
Edge
Likes
WWE
Really
Toes
Keep
Seats
All Elite Wrestling completely changes the entire landscape of pro wrestling.
Jake Hager
Changes
Entire
Wrestling
Pro
Landscape
Elite
I love being a family man.
Jake Hager
Love
Family
Man
I Love
Family Man
Being
I've heard that I'm a wrestler and not a real fighter, but I have nothing to prove to anybody.
Jake Hager
Nothing
Fighter
Wrestler
Real
Prove
Heard
Anybody
As a fighter, I'm not one of those people that wants to prove I can go out and throw strikes.
Jake Hager
People
Fighter
Strikes
Those
I Can
Out
Throw
Prove
Go
Wants
I feel like being a professional wrestling has definitely made me a better MMA fighter.
Jake Hager
Me
Better
Made
Fighter
Definitely
MMA
I Feel
I Feel Like
Wrestling
Feel
Like
Being
Professional
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
Country
Programs
Background
Prolific
MMA
More
Most
Up
Grew
Successful
Fighters
When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months - and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training.
Jake Hager
Finance
Training
Opportunity
Job
Degree
College
Nothing
Teammates
Interviews
Months
Oklahoma
MMA
Wrestling
Had
Like
Ready
Real
Leaving
Lot
Real Opportunity
Graduate
Getting
Moving
Really
Meanwhile
Started
If you go back and look at WWE Magazine, they asked me when I was going to win my first world championship and I told them WrestleMania XXVI, so I was only a couple days off.
Jake Hager
Me
You
World
Win
First
Back
Magazine
WrestleMania
Only
Days
Look
Couple
First World
WWE
Go
Off
Going
Them
Asked
World Championship
Championship
Pro wrestling is all about staying fresh.
Jake Hager
Staying
About
Wrestling
Fresh
Pro
When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the point where, 'Oh my gosh, man, this is a lot.'
Jake Hager
Man
Anxiety
Remember
College
Before
Oklahoma
I Remember
Wrestling
Point
Almost
Gosh
Matches
Always
Lot
Getting
Oh
Where
Competing
Wrestling for wrestling fans is an honor.
Jake Hager
Fans
Honor
Wrestling
My junior and senior year in college is when I first realized what MMA is and really started liking it. I went the other route - I went into the entertainment field and started wrestling professionally, and I did that for about 11 years.
Jake Hager
Entertainment
College
First
Year
Field
Other
MMA
About
Wrestling
Liking
Years
Junior
Did
Senior
Senior Year
Realized
Really
Professionally
Route
Started
I have a lot of experience with the lights on bright - a lot of people watching and performing on live television.
Jake Hager
Experience
People
Live
Television
Lights
Performing
Lot
Live Television
Bright
Watching
In this world, I feel like we all need to be nicer to each other.
Jake Hager
World
Other
I Feel
I Feel Like
Feel
Like
Each
Nicer
Need
I've been wrestling since I was 4 years old, so I have over 30 years in some form of wrestling, non-stop in my life. For me, it's who I am.
Jake Hager
Life
Me
I Am
Old
My Life
Some
Wrestling
Over
Since
Non-Stop
Am
Been
Years
Form
Who
Growing up in Perry, Oklahoma, there's not a lot going on, so we would go wrestle anywhere and anyplace we could. It really is who I am.
Jake Hager
I Am
Oklahoma
Would
Wrestle
Could
Am
Go
Lot
Perry
Up
Going
Anywhere
Really
Who
Growing
Growing Up
People think I look like a P.E. teacher or the principal.
Jake Hager
Teacher
People
Think
Like
Look
Principal
That's one thing I found out about myself when I left WWE: I'm that guy that needs to be pushed full throttle. That's when you're gonna get the best out of me.
Jake Hager
Best
Myself
Needs
Me
You
Out
One Thing
About
Guy
Pushed
WWE
Left
Get
Gonna
Full
Found
Thing
Big risk means big reward. I want that.
Jake Hager
Reward
Big
Risk
Want
Means
I would love to fight Fedor Emelianenko in Russia, maybe we can make that happen.
Jake Hager
Love
Fight
Would
Russia
Make
Maybe
Happen
You know, there's not a lot of guys who don't like Jack Swagger. It's a good problem to have.
Jake Hager
Good
You
Problem
Guys
Like
Know
Lot
Jack
Swagger
Who
As cool as Jack Swagger was, he felt choreographed.
Jake Hager
He
Felt
Jack
Swagger
Cool
I need to wrestle, I need to compete.
Jake Hager
Wrestle
Compete
Need
I'm making MMA great again for pro wrestlers.
Jake Hager
Great
MMA
Wrestlers
Making
Pro
Again
I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.
R-Truth
Good
Me
I Am
Energy
Everything
Bad
Absorb
Makes
Am
Who
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