MJF doesn’t care about grapple f*cking, but he does care about the best era of professional wrestling… because he is part of it.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Maxwell Jacob Friedman was a recent guest on KFC Radio to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When the host told MJF that the Attitude Era was his favorite time in professional wrestling, MJF proclaimed that he is Attitude and said that the best era of wrestling is right now because he’s in it.
“I am Attitude, and then this is what I like to tell people. I think the Attitude Era was the best era of wrestling until right now because right now has me,” MJF said. “And I say that with love and respect, and I say it humbly. I genuinely feel I’m the most exciting thing to happen to professional wrestling in over a decade. Everyone in my industry, they all want to just tiptoe around the line. If this is the line, I don’t just step over it. I’ll f*cking jump over it.
“Because what people want is somebody who’s honest, open, not afraid to speak their mind. And that’s me to a tee. I am not fake. I’m not phony. I’m as real as it gets. And I think now, more than ever, that’s what professional wrestling needs. And I think that’s what All Elite Wrestling brings to the table every single week, Wednesday nights on TBS, from eight to 10 pm.”
When the host joked about wanting to see someone who paid their dues and grinded it out on the independents, MJF said that’s not what he brings to the table.
“I think it’s funny because there’s this weird fantasy about like, I need to see a guy in the ring, who like just couldn’t get it done for years had to grind it out, like what you’re saying, and they wear black trunks and kick pads and they have the charisma drying paint like that’s cool. If that’s what you’re into; by all means, you be into that,” MJF said. “That’s not what I bring to the table. I got signed on to a top brand in the world of professional wrestling and only 22 years old. I am now 26.
“After being on national television for only three years, I am one of — and this is a fact; facts don’t care about your feelings. Look up the numbers if you don’t believe me, I’m one of the biggest draws in the entire business at 26 years old, and I’m not one of the guys that — I call it grapple f*cking, and what grapple f*cking is these guys walking out all sweaty with no personality. I don’t care. You don’t care. Nobody in their right mind cares. Everyone on Twitter pretends they care, but then I come out, and they lose their shit.”
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