Final yr, AEW followers noticed a unique facet of Maxwell Jacob Friendman — one which embraced kindness, sportsmanship, and the followers themselves. On the July 3 episode of “AEW Dynamite,” nonetheless, MJF revealed a extra sadistic facet by brutally attacking Daniel Garcia. It’s this latter iteration of MJF, who’s now feuding with Will Ospreay, that AEW President Tony Khan believes to be nearer to MJF’s most genuine kind.
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“I feel this new iteration of MJF shouldn’t be my favourite particular person,” Khan stated on the AEW All In media name. “He had some very not sort issues to say about me on TV, however that is okay. I feel MJF is a good wrestler and an enormous star and large field workplace attraction, and we have seen his true colours. I feel that MJF was having fun with the adulation of the followers, after which when the followers perhaps questioned him and his friendships fell aside for the primary time, perhaps we had been getting a have a look at a unique MJF final yr.”
“I feel he was not capable of preserve that stage of kindness and that stage of humility and that form of person who he was attempting to be. He could not maintain it,” Khan continued. “And that is what he’s on the finish of the day.”
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In two days, MJF will defend the American Championship towards Ospreay at AEW All In. Earlier than the 2 battle within the ring, they got here face-to-face on this week’s episode of “AEW Dynamite,” the place an irate MJF proclaimed that the followers liked him till Ospreay got here aboard to AEW. AEW broadcaster Tony Schiavone labeled this outburst as a show of jealousy towards Ospreay. Moments later, MJF then made an ill-natured comment about Ospreay’s household, prompting Ospreay to clock him within the head.
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