During last night’s media scrum following AEW Dynamite, president Tony Khan was asked about Jake Hager (fka Jack Swagger), and what his status was with the company. Khan revealed that Hager has actually been signed for quite a while before commending the former heavyweight champion for being a phenomenal athlete, and moving around his training days for Bellator to accommodate AEW.

You know what’s pretty cool about secret keeping is that Jake’s been signed for like a really long time. Jake’s been signed to us for like a really long time now. Jake can clearly keep a secret and so can we. For quite awhile now Jake was signed. It’s something we’ve been planning for. He moved his camp to accommodate this, but he’s also still in training and has a good schedule with that. The AEW schedule with Wednesdays allows him to make Wednesday the off day so he can train Friday to Tuesday and that’s what Jake’s doing right now.

Khan also comments on how different Hager is compared to the current roster.

Jake’s a machine. At the end he got a great reaction and for him to come in, he’s different from a lot of the high flying wrestlers we have right now, he’s a powerhouse and he came in and he’s really exciting.

(H/T Wrestling Inc)