Jack Swagger

On September 9, 2008, Hager made his debut on the ECW brand under the ring name Jack Swagger, winning a match against a local competitor. He quickly established himself as a villain when he didn't let the referee hold up his arm after the win and later started a feud with ECW Original Tommy Dreamer by attacking him after Dreamer had saved Chase Stevens from Mike Knox. He later defeated Dreamer in a wrestling match and an "All American Challenge" competition. After weeks of feuding, they would finally end their rivalry in an Extreme Rules match, which Swagger won to extend his undefeated streak.
He then set his sights on Matt Hardy's ECW Championship and was named the number one contender on the December 30, 2008, edition of ECW. On the January 13, 2009, episode of ECW, Swagger defeated Hardy to win his first title in WWE, the ECW Championship. His undefeated streak in singles competition ended on the February 3 episode of ECW when he lost to Finlay in a non-title match. After successfully defending his title against Hardy at the Royal Rumble and Finlay at No Way Out, Swagger began a feud with the returning Christian, to whom he lost the ECW Championship at Backlash, ending his reign as champion at 104 days. After losing the title, he attempted to regain the championship in a triple threat hardcore match at Extreme Rules, but was unsuccessful. Swagger attempted to win the ECW Championship again at The Bash in a ECW Championship Scramble, however, he did not succeed.
On June 29, 2009, Swagger was traded to the Raw brand, making his debut as part of a three-on-one gauntlet match against WWE Champion Randy Orton, in which he got himself purposely counted out in order to make an impression on Orton. On the July 13 episode of Raw, he won his first match on the brand by defeating Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP). He then feuded with MVP for the next several weeks as the feud ultimately culminated at Summerslam, in a match that MVP would win. After his short feud with MVP ended, Swagger began pursuing the WWE United States Championship. He had his first singles match for the championship on September 21 against then-champion Kofi Kingston, but lost the match by countout after stealing the championship and leaving the arena with it (with Kofi eventually stealing it back while Swagger had a match against The Miz). He was also unsuccessful in winning the championship at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. The night after this event, Swagger entered a story-line in which he announced his intent to carry on undefeated for the remainder of 2009.He later entered a small feud with Primo beating him numerous times. On December 10, he defeated M.V.P. on WWE Superstars, by using a gut-wrench powerbomb.
He later returned to ECW on December 22, as part of the ECW Homecoming, being defeated by Yoshi Tatsu. 
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