LOS ANGELES — When J.W. Kiser makes his national television debut on Saturday night at Bellator 214, where he’ll face Jake Hager — a.k.a. former WWE champion Jack Swagger — in a heavyweight main card bout, it’s a fair bet that most of those tuning in on Paramount Network will say something to the effect of, “who?”
And Kiser is OK with that.
“I’m a B-list fighter, I know this,” Kiser told MMA Fighting. “I’m not going to pretend to be this big star. I come right out of the local circuit.”
They’re also going to see that the 41-year-old Kansan has a professional record of 1-1, and assume that he’s just been brought in as, to use a pro wrestling term, a “jobber” — a guy who was brought in specifically to lose.