Professional wrestling legend and future WWE Hall of Famer William Regal who is a former four times WWE European champion recently talked about AEW star MJF and praised him. The former two times Intercontinental Champion address him as the actual villain of professional wrestling.
MJF Maxwell Jacob Friedman is one of the biggest star in the All Elite Wrestling today. He is a very young and talented wrestler who has been mostly praised for his amazing mic skill. At a very young age he has acquired excellent mic skill which is the biggest attraction about the 26 year old.
William Regal Praises MJF, Addresses Him As An Actual Villain
MJF started is professional resting career back in 2015 at a very young age of 19. Believe it or not he started his professional wrestling career under the Mighty WWE. He tried his luck on the WWE Tough Enough competition where he failed to impress the promotion. After failing to fit in WWE, he went to the independent circuit.
Became quite famous in the independent circuit as a started his professional dressing career with the famous independent wrestling promotion Combat Zone Wrestling where he won a couple of championships including the World Heavyweight championship. Apart from the CZW, he worked on the Major League Wrestling as well.
In 2019, he joined the newly founded professional wrestling promotion AEW. He is working in the promotion from the very first week of it and he has always been treated as a huge prospect. He earned the ultimate Fame after he feuded CM Punk. There are rumours that he might leave AEW and join WWE in the near future.
William Regal who is a former four times WWE European champion recently spoke to WhatCulture where he talked about AEW star MJF and praised him. The former two times Intercontinental Champion address him as the actual villain of professional wrestling. He said;
“I think he’s [MJF] fantastic. I’m a huge fan. I was getting to know him very early on his career and then things went a bit [left] for me for a couple of years in 2018.
“I had pretty much a year off, a part from a couple of months and a lot of it’s come out a bit recently but a lot of things went on and I was out of the game for quite a bit and then he went on his way and made a name for himself and I was just glad when I saw him.
“That he had came to AEW because I knew back when I met him that it was something special about him and we’d spent time together and I had him send me a few things and actually at one point because I knew there was something special. With a lot of people — I’ve learned to read people and I can read them quicker than they wish they could.
“After a while, he was sending me stuff and I said, ‘Look, don’t send me anymore. Go out and prove it, go out and show it’ because he was too young to get hired by WWE at the time. Tyler Bate changed that theme because he was 19 but it was the U.K. thing. They didn’t like to hire anybody under 20-something because of getting rental cars and different things, right?
“It was just mature — or whatever. Whatever the reasons were, that was — and he wasn’t that age so I said — I sent him a thing whereas I would — ‘Look, I know how good you are. Go and sort yourself out,’ hoping it would kick him up the backside. Well, it did.
“There’s very few people [who] want to be actual villains in this job. He wants to be a villain and be a real villain and that’s, you know, when I had the chapter, there’s many parts of my career, you give me the chance when I was a real villain, I was a real villain and people didn’t like me and I could go from comedy to that in a second but it didn’t matter because people truly didn’t like me.
“But I had to work on that. Well he’s got this magic thing that he’s worked on and found his spot on. When you see people like that, I have nothing but — I love it because I have nothing but admiration for their — it takes a lot of guts to do that, to really go out there and not — because you put yourself on the line.
“Even in this day in age, if you’re willing to offend people or take it to another level, there’s not many people who really go there, right? And he’s gone there and I’m a big fan so, I hope and I know he’s gonna do incredible things so good for him.”
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