Maxwell Jacob Friedman MJF is currently one of the top stars in the wrestling world who started his professional wrestling career at a very young age he also appeared in the WWE Tough Enough competition in 2015 which we got to know through a YouTube video that WWE published in the mentioned year. He also made cameo appearances in WWE and he was uncredited in all of them.
After not getting the chance to shine in WWE, Friedman signed a professional contract with Combat Zone Wrestling where he spent a total of three years. This is where he got the eyes of the scouts. CZW is vastly considered as the ECW of today’s indie wrestling and Friedman became extremely popular in the mentioned promotion.
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Apart from CZW, he also worked in MLW and he was pretty famous in this promotion as well. In 2019 he signed with the newly founded professional wrestling promotion AEW and this is where he started to rise properly for the first time in his professional wrestling career.
Former WWE star Adam Cole who is currently active in the AEW shared massive praise for Friedman and said he knew it that very talented when he saw him for the first time. Speaking with Superstar Crossover he shared praise for the current AEW World Champion. Here is what he had to say;
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“I actually met MJF when he was very, very early on in his career. From the moment I saw him, and I mean this, this is regardless of what I think about him personally, but from the moment I saw him, I knew he was super talented. He was one of those guys who got it very, very early on.
“He was someone who put just as much time and energy into his promo work as he did into his bell-to-bell in-ring competition work. So yeah, he was incredibly talented from a very young age. He was definitely one of those guys that when I saw I was like, ‘Oh, this is gonna be a guy I’m gonna be seeing a lot more of.’”
Friedman received excellent treatment from AEW and he was a proper main eventer in this promotion. In 2022 he went on to win the AEW World Championship for the first time in his career and it was his first major title win. He is currently being considered the best heel in the world of wrestling today. Clearly, he had a great future lying ahead of himself in the world of wrestling.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)