3 reasons why Jack Swagger will win his MMA debut at Bellator 214

#3 He’s got a huge size advantage

At 6'4" and 260lbs, Hager will be a huge MMA Heavyweight

The world of WWE is very deceptive in a lot of respects, but one area where it’s more deceptive than others is in the size of its athletes. Wrestlers like The Undertaker, The Big Show and Braun Strowman are essentially real-life giants – standing anywhere between 6’8” and 7’0” and weighing well over 300lbs. That means that wrestlers who would be considered large by any regular standards can look far smaller in comparison.

As Jack Swagger, Jake Hager didn’t appear to be a huge man when he was competing in the WWE ring – he clearly wasn’t a smaller wrestler like Rey Mysterio or Daniel Bryan, but he never came across as a giant monster. It might then come as a surprise to learn that for his MMA debut, Hager will likely have to cut weight to make the 265lbs Heavyweight limit.

Billed by WWE at 6’7” and 275lbs, Hager’s estimated true size is somewhere around 6’4” and 260lbs. That’s bigger than UFC Heavyweights like Daniel Cormier, Cain Velasquez and Stipe Miocic, putting him more towards the range of Brock Lesnar’s size when he was competing in MMA. And as a powerful wrestler, that size will definitely come in handy for his fighting career.

Against JW Kiser, it should play an even bigger part given Kiser is reportedly just 6’0” and 220lbs – and judging by photos, he’s not in tremendous shape either, meaning he could probably make 205lbs or 185lbs with more effort. Basically, when the two men step into the Bellator cage on Saturday, Hager should have a huge size advantage over his opponent – making his likely wrestling-heavy gameplan far easier to implement.