8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For AEW

3. Jake Hager

Jake Hager is so bad at talking and expressing himself that, at one point, AEW made it a bit: he’d just stand there with a vacant, dumbass expression on his face and only offer a single word when prompted by Chris Jericho. A veritable “big lug”, Hager would barely emote when he was in the ring, either, often just doing his stuff as if sleepwalking with his eyes shut.

All of which is to say that it’s impossible to determine whether Jake Hager “visibly” felt anything.

Have you ever walked home and caught yourself wondering how you ended up where you are? Maybe you were preoccupied by the music in your headphones or some daydream, and you have zero recollection of walking the last few streets, or how close you might have come to being run over?

Does this phenomenon explain Hager never feeling like he was present?

Or was he simply not sharp enough to remember that a key part of his job is emoting?

Or, did he lack, entirely, the charisma and personality to do it?

In any event, Hager has since heavily criticised his time in AEW, telling Chris Van Vliet that “Tony Khan can’t make a sandwich, let alone a storyline”. Hager claimed that Khan stopped caring about AEW after a while, and that he was a child who only wanted to play with his toy.

It was nice of Hager to clarify. The guy’s blank face gives so little away that he could well have loved it there, and you’d be none the wiser.