{"id":517971,"date":"2026-03-04T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517971\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:09:35","slug":"jake-hager-signs-six-fight-deal-with-power-slap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517971\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Hager signs six-fight deal with Power Slap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former WWE World Heavyweight champion and Bellator MMA veteran Jake Hager has signed a six-fight deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/4\/24377488\/dana-white-turns-down-tv-and-distribution-rights-deals-takes-power-slap-to-youtube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power Slap<\/a>. Hager \u2014 previously known to wrestling fans as Jack Swagger \u2014 is expected to debut on Fri., April 17, 2026, the night before WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been told that I have a very slappable face, so I\u2019m sure the line will be around the corner,\u201d Hager joked to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Transitioning from scripted combat to legitimate MMA \u2014 and now to competitive slapping \u2014 is certainly unconventional, but Hager says he understands the risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou know what you signed up for,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re signing up to get slapped and trying to slap someone back as hard as you can. So I expect injuries to happen. I know UFC does a great job of covering all expenses related to the injuries. I\u2019m not worried about it, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE World Heavyweight champion and Bellator MMA veteran Jake Hager has signed a six-fight deal with Power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,160228,786,40762,785,85,14855],"class_list":["post-517971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bellator-mma-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}