8 Wrestlers AEW Just Can't Get Over

8. Jake Hager

It is easy to forget that Jake Hager is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion, largely owing to his huge physical transformation from his Jack Swagger days. Hager, though not currently troubling title holders, is better as a background enforcer. However, the amount of screen time that Hager gets, as well as his adjacency to AEW's biggest stars, does not correlate with his popularity with fans. Though he fills his role well, he adds nothing extra. Hager is in limbo, neither over nor despised, an area that no fan lingers in.

Hager is due a creative shake-up. He needs to establish himself as a more three-dimensional act, pushing to the forefront that which makes him unique. Though the enforcer role can often act like a straitjacket to performers, both limiting their creativity and protecting them from harsh backlash, nowhere is it written that an enforcer must be bland.

If AEW is to justify Hager's place on the card they need to entrust him to stray outside his, and their, comfort zone. We are not expecting the second coming of The Rock, just a little something to make the supreme athlete a more unique prospect.