MJF doesn’t care that the fans of All Elite Wrestling want to see him wrestle more as the AEW World Champion; it’s not going to happen.
AEW World Heavyweight Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman recently sat down with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated to discuss a wide variety of subjects. During the interview, Friedman brought up the era of All Elite Wrestling when he was benched following his feud with Cody Rhodes and was forced to sit in the crowd and watch the shows.
“People might not remember this, but after my feud with Cody Rhodes [in 2020], I was sat,” MJF said. “I was sat out. Literally. I had to sit behind the guardrail. I sat beside Shawn Spears and Shawn Dean and Sonny Kiss and all these other people, and I had to sit there and watch the shows. I remember thinking to myself, ‘Are you guys f—ing stupid? I’m literally the biggest star here. What’s happening here?’
“I made myself a star on our very first show, which was a pay-per-view, Double or Nothing. I made myself a star that night when I cut a promo on Bret Hart and Sensitive Cowboy [Hangman Page]. Then I’m sitting behind the guardrail. I thought I should have been world champion then. So I took every opening I had and hit a home run every time I was on screen. I’m still doing that now.”
In response to the complaints from fans that he doesn’t wrestle enough, Friedman doesn’t care because wrestling hurts, and his game plan is to make the most money in the shortest time possible while maintaining his mental and physical health.
“Wrestling fans get upset with me for not wrestling more,” MJF said. “I hear, ‘MJF, you should wrestle more.’ F— you’ you wrestle. It hurts. I’m not a f—ing mark loser like Bryan Danielson where I’m feigning [sic] to get in the ring every week because I’m a wrestling hipster nerd. You know what I care about? Making the most amount of money I can in the shortest amount of time possible, and maintaining my mental and physical health.
“I’m not going to go out and kill my body for people who are fickle. One second, you’re beloved. Then you’re hated. That shows you how fickle, disgusting, and putrid mark wrestling fans are. One second, you think MJF is the best thing since sliced bread. The next, you want someone to get the belt off me as soon as possible. And they don’t even realize it. It sickens me.”
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