Jack Swagger Talks Face Turn, Cesaro, Being a Veteran

The “Real American” Jack Swagger recently took time out of his busy WWE schedule to talk with Billy Donnelly of This Is Infamous regarding various aspects of WWE and his career. Below are some of the highlights.

Regarding his face turn after “Money in the Bank,” Swagger was blown away.

“It definitely is a special moment in my career, and I’m very excited about the future doing this run. I knew it was going to be electric that night, but I had no idea just how big it was going to be. I’ve been wrestling on TV now with WWE for six years, and always as the bad guy, and so for them to get behind me in one switch, one night, it was awesome. I really think that shows the beauty of the WWE and how well they do what they do. You truly never know what you’re going to get and it will always keep you on the edge of your seat. It’s always a lot of fun to see what’s going to happen.”

He added:

“Oh, man… that is definitely a moment I will take with me for the rest of my life. One of the crowning points of my career. Hopefully there are more moments like that that come… But every now and then you come across a storyline that is very special and relatable to everyone, whether you’re a hardcore wrestling fan or just an average viewer, and to see America and those fans in the WWE Universe get behind me like that… I was so pumped up. I was so jacked. I was so ready to fight, and at the same time I was proud. I was proud of my country. If you look closely, I probably had tears in my eyes when I said, “We The People,” because I felt that, and I felt everyone’s emotions behind that. I know everyone in the back came through and they told me that they stood up and they said it along with me, because it was just that type of moment where it grabbed you. You couldn’t take your eyes off the television. It was very cool. It’s up there with winning any championship.”

Swagger said he would have liked to have seen more come from his program with Cesaro resulting from the split of their tag team.

“Absolutely. Antonio Cesaro and I… I always say that we’re the greatest tag team not to win a championship. There was something very special between us with the way we competed and the way we set off each other, and the way it went down definitely wasn’t the way I would have liked it to. But at the same time, the door is always open, so I feel like there was so much interest there that we could go back to that at any time.”

The two also discussed how Swagger is essentially a veteran in today’s WWE climate, working with three consecutive NXT guys.

“Well, I don’t know if I would go so far as to call myself a veteran of the locker room… But I have had the honor of privilege of working with guys like Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, John Cena, Chris Jericho, Triple H… A lot of guys that don’t compete anymore, so a lot of guys coming up now aren’t going to have that knowledge or experience of someone who grew up in a different generation and had that old-school mentality and was able to pass it along to guys like me or Dolph Ziggler. It’s something that’s very special and can’t be overlooked, because it really is like… Triple-H and Undertaker, when they wrestled at WrestleMania, they’re the last of their generation, you know? And no one else is going to have that now, coming up. So it is important to try and pass along certain issues that you can help guys with. Me, I’m a very giving guy, and I always want to help and I always want to learn something, so I just try and pass along my hunger to those guys. I’m like, “Look, either you want this, and this is going to be how it is and you’re going to eat, sleep and breathe this, or you’re not going to make it.” I think that’s one of the most important things. You just gotta stay hungry.”

The entire interview can be found here.

Editor’s Note

Great interview here. Swagger is really coming into his own, worth checking out.

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