5 wrestling rumors we hope are true and 5 we hope aren't: SmackDown star may be out for a year, backstage tension between McMahon & Heyman?

#4 Hope is true: AEW has huge plans for Jack Hager fka Jack Swagger

Jack Hager

Jack Hager was the big surprise debut as AEW Dynamite debuted in early October. He got a better reaction than he ever got in a while and the MMA superstar seems to have a new lease of life in the pro wrestling world.

Things have changed quite a lot for him and many believe that he's just there to be Chris Jericho's bodyguard and a part of The Inner Circle faction. However, Wade Keller of PWTorch reported that AEW has huge plans for Jake Hager and plans to turn him into a huge star rather than just making him a side character.

"People in AEW are telling me he is super-motivated, he’s regained his confidence that he lost in WWE and there’s some powerful people in that company, influential people, who think he is going to be not a support player, a guy standing behind a star, but be a star,” Keller explained. “And if that’s what they think and he can deliver deliver on that, then that will show itself in the next couple months.”

We really hope this is true because Hager has always been a talented superstar and it's great to see him regain all that lost confidence. Don't underestimate him. He may just surprise you.