Practically born on a mat, Bellator’s Jake Hager feels his path to MMA will work out best

The former college football player and wrestler, best known as WWE’s Jack Swagger, debuts in MMA at Bellator 214 while also wanting to stay in pro wrestling. In many ways, you can say Jake Hager was almost a born wrestler, since he competed in the sport since the age of five.
But after a dozen years away from competition — many of those years spent performing as a professional wrestler — he’s trying to reclaim the instincts he developed from childhood, but adapt them to