{"id":59859,"date":"2020-09-03T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-mjfs-evolution-could-look-like-in-aew\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:09:00","slug":"what-mjfs-evolution-could-look-like-in-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-mjfs-evolution-could-look-like-in-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"#What MJF\u2019s evolution could look like in AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What MJF\u2019s evolution could look like in AEW<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 3, 2020 |<\/span> 2:09pm |<\/span> Updated September 3, 2020 | 3:01pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n Arn Anderson wants to help Maxwell Jacob Friedman evolve as a wrestling bad guy.<\/p>\n

Friedman, 24, will face Jon Moxley for the All Elite Wrestling world championship on Saturday (8 p.m., B\/R Live). Friedman, who goes by MJF, is already one of the rising stars in pro wrestling. That doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t more to be added to his repertoire.<\/p>\n

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As a member of the legendary Four Horsemen, one of the best heel tag teams ever with Tully Blanchard and a match producer with WWE, Anderson thinks he knows just the thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want to do, if I have the opportunity to work with him at some point, is teach him all the nasty cheap stuff,\u201d Anderson, Cody Rhodes\u2019 on-screen manager in AEW, told The Post in a phone interview. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing cheaper than getting knocked on your ass in the corner and begging the referee to bail you out and kicking a guy\u2019s knee out from under him from being on your ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

MJF does his fair share of underhanded things to help himself win matches, including using his bodyguard Wardlow and his Dynamite Diamond ring to get the job done. Anderson would like to see more, saying it will help turn some of the fans who actually root for Friedman against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those people who are so entertained by him and do like him no matter what he says as long as he\u2019s insulting everybody else and he\u2019s not insulting me I like that guy, for that group of fans, once he continues to be that cheap and not earning everything he gets in the ring then those people will turn on him and then you got a guy that sells tickets,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

While Friedman is over with the audience as a classic heel, wrestling legend Taz \u2013 an AEW manager\/commentator who is a good friend of MJF \u2014 believes he can eventually go the other way. Friedman is good enough to become a beloved babyface.<\/p>\n

Taz cited the transitions of \u201cRowdy\u201d Roddy Piper \u2013 whom MFJ revered \u2013 and \u201cMacho Man\u201d Randy Savage from heel to babyface as examples.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Savage] was such an amazing bad guy that people had to like him and he became a babyface,\u201d Taz said. \u201cThey loved him. I think MJF can do the exact same thing because he\u2019s so damn entertaining. He\u2019s so good on the mic. He\u2019s so cunning and insulting and crass and unscript<\/a>ed. It just fits all those things to become a good guy. But stay the way you are, still act like a jerk and people are gonna laugh. He\u2019s entertaining as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why Taz says Friedman\u2019s upside is \u201cendless\u201d and can eventually see him cross over into acting one day. MJF, who lives his wrestling persona, was part of the choir in high school and sung \u201cYou Are My Sunshine\u201d on the \u201cThe Rosie O\u2019Donnell Show\u201d when he was 6 \u2013 telling her he wanted to be an opera singer and a wrestler.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a talented guy,\u201d Taz said. \u201cHe can sing. He can act. He\u2019s an athlete. He\u2019s everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friedman left open another direction for his character.<\/p>\n