Jake Hager Jokes It’s A Benefit He’s Not On AEW TV Every Week So People Still Like Him

Jake Hager likes his hat and likes not always being on television. 

Jake Hager seldom wrestles in AEW and doesn’t always appear on television alongside Chris Jericho and the Jericho Appreciation Society (Matt Menard, Angelo Parker, Sammy Guevara, & Daniel Garcia). He is not currently set to be part of the Garcia Guevara Gauntlet that Ricky Starks will have to go through in the coming weeks. 

Speaking to Dutch Mantell on Story Time, Mantell commented that there are a lot of people on the AEW roster. 

“We have a big roster there. A lot of the storylines are rotated every other week. Right now, I don’t have to work that much, and I get paid the same,” said Hager. “It’s a great benefit for me and then I don’t have to get overdone, overblown, and overused and the people still like me. They need every reason to still like me at this age because I’m just not entertaining [laughs].”

When asked how he’s treated in AEW and by Tony Khan, Hager replied, “AEW is a great organization that treats the talent like adults. They treat us like humans. We have rights, it’s not just a high school, who is cool and who is in trouble type deal. That all starts with Tony. That direction is so strong throughout the company where he wants good people working with him more than anything. I feel very welcome there, I feel like I’m wanted there. I never feel like, ‘do you value me?’ We’re all Mariah Carey, we’re all artists and we need to be reaffirmed that we’re good and we’re wanted. It’s nice to have that. To work for him, it feels like a big change from other places.”

Hager last wrestled on the January 18 episode of AEW Dynamite, losing to Ricky Starks.

Elsewhere during the interview, Hager commented on AEW Brawl Out. You can read his comments by clicking here. 

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