Professional wrestler Jack Swagger: biography, sports career

American wrestling show, which is closely watched by millions of people not only in the US, but also in other countries of the world. The combination of high-class martial artists, bright lights, loud music - all this is quite capable of attracting the attention of even the most demanding audience. In this article we will talk about one of the outstanding wrestlers of our time by the name of Jack Swagger. His life and sports career we will consider in the most detail.

Total information

Jack Swagger is a wrestler born in Perry, Oklahoma, on March 24, 1982. The weight of the athlete is 125 kg, and the height is 201 cm. Training for wrestling was held in Deep South Wrestling. Professional debut took place on September 7, 2006. The real name is Jacob Hager.

First steps

Since January 2007, Jack Swagger began sporadically appearing on the wrestling playground called Ohio Valley Wrestling. There he was able to distinguish himself with bright performances in various teams. Also, work at OVW enabled the guy to light up on the well-known RAW show, where he was in the role of a guard during the fight between John Cena and Umagi.

Period 2007-2008

In August 2007, Jack Swagger was transferred to the Florida Championship Wrestling. There, almost immediately he entered into a tough confrontation with Ti Jay Wilson. Already literally six months later, our hero, along with Ted Di Bias Jr., become mandatory contenders for the title of FCW champion. This was made possible by their excellent performance in the battle-royal match. Somewhat later, they met in person, in which Jack came out victorious.

In March 2008, Swagger fought with another heavyweight champion FCW - Miller Heath. That night, both belts were at stake, so Jack, having completed the fight successfully for himself, became the undisputed champion of the organization. After that, he smashed such pretenders as Wilson, Miller, Curtis, Tuft.

This winning series ended in defeat in August on RAW in a dark match. However, later he began to appear on the air before the recordings of television versions of the main weekly, which only meant his unambiguous debut in the main card. As for the FCW title, his Jack lost to Seamus in September.

ECW Championship

On September 9, 2009, Jack Swagger made his first appearance at ECW. Already in the opening match, he overcame one of the local performers. After this victory, he acquired the reputation of a bad guy and began a confrontation with Tommy Drimmer. Finally, their ways broke up after an extreme duel, in which Jack was clearly the best. This victory allowed him to move to the main team.

In December 2008, Jack received the status of an applicant for the title ECW. On January 13, 2009, he was able to defeat the then champion of the organization, Matt Hardy. Then followed a rematch in which again turned out to be the best Swagger. However, already on February 3 the victorious series of our hero was interrupted in a duel with Finley, but the title remained untouchable. Eventually, the loss of the belt fell on a duel with Christian, who passed on Backlash. And although then Jack had two more title fights, he could not return the belt champion.

Speeches on RAW (2009-2010)

The transition to the organization occurred on June 29, 2009. Already in the first fight, Jack met with Randy Orton, who at that time was the WWE champion. The debut was extremely unsuccessful.

In July, Swagger was able to defeat the MVP, which was the beginning of a conflict between them, which soon ended. After that, Jack switched to the title of US champion and in September fought with Kofi Kingston, and quite successfully.

During Hell in a Cell, Jack and Miz conceded to Kingston in a three-way duel for the title. On the Survivor Series, Swagger played in the Misa squad and was defeated by Morrison (Misa's team eventually won).

World Championship 2010

All WWE wrestlers are ambitious people, and Swagger in this matter is no exception. In March 2010, he was able to qualify for a match for the case at WrestleMania 26. As a result, he won the contract. Already on the first RAW show, Jack wanted to use the case on the then champion John Cine, but he could not even stand on his own, so Swaggerg was not given the opportunity to win the title in such a situation.

In this connection, Jack decided to try his luck on SmackDown and there he successfully realized his desire, having crammed the case on world champion Chris Jericho. In April, Swagger was able to defend his belt against Jericho and Edge, after which he also managed to fight off Orton. Then followed a standoff with Big Show, which he lost by disqualification to Over the Limit.

On June 20, Jack lost the four-way match, which also included Ray Mysterio, SM Punk and Big Show.

In the period 2011-2012. Swagger was the champion of the United States. This title he lost in December 2012 Santino Marella. The loss was not the only one, and Jack did not return it to himself.

Return

Aggressive driving and storage of marijuana - on all this caught in February 2013 Jack Swagger. WWE - the organization is quite harsh in relation to the offenders, but she did not begin to remove the fighter from the broadcasts, although it became clear that there could be no question of any serious progress in the tournament.

In early June, he was forced to leave on leave because of a hand injury. But on July 1 he returned to RAW, coming out to fight against Cody Rhodes.

After a while Swagger and Cesaro declared themselves "Real Americans" and began to speak in the same team. Performing with varying success, they still managed to reach the battle for the title of team champions, but lost to his group "Shield".

WrestleMania 30 was the last tournament for "Real Americans". During the competition, Jack was able to endure the fact that Cesar defeated Andre Gigant, and drove the Swiss out of the team.

Today's Day

In 2016, Jack began his performances extremely unsuccessfully, as, indeed, in 2015. In the "Royal Battle-2015" Swagger participated together with Mark Henry. As for the opposition "Jack Swagger vs. Brock Lesnar" at Royal Rumble, the show ended very quickly, because Brock only took 29 seconds to finish his opponent.

Also Swagger was defeated by Chris Jericho on Roadblock. WrestleMania 32 was another fatal tournament for Swarger, as he succumbed to Andre Gigant.

It is noteworthy that this year thanks to "Twitter" many fans of wrestling thought that the fighter finally leaves the ring. And all because he published on his page a statement that ended with the words "last day". Jack Swagger, whose wife later explained the meaning of this phrase, thus, greatly aggravated the minds of many admirers, who began to get lost in conjecture. However, his wife on the page in "Twitter" said that her husband was talking about the last day on his European tour, but not in his career.

These are WWE wrestlers: shocking, emotional, sometimes aggressive and inadequate, but at the same time very beloved showmen, who in every performance risk not only their health, but sometimes their lives.