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For the second time this weekend, one of professional wrestling’s Big 2 promotions is holding a Premium Live Event, with AEW looking to top an unusual King and Queen of the Ring showcase in Saudi Arabia with one of its signature events, Double or Nothing. Soon, fans in Las Vegas and beyond will get to […]

After watching MJF take a massive loss to Samoa Joe and then Adam Cole in the main event of AEW Worlds End on Long Island, fans of the promotion haven’t seen the “Salt of the Earth” for the entirety of 2024 so far outside of a few posts on social media from himself and his […]

When it comes to professional wrestling in 2024, few performers have seen, let alone experienced, more than Samoa Joe. From his current spot as the AEW World Champion, to his top-shelf runs in TNA and Ring of Honor, and even his time in WWE, where he became an NXT Champion twice but was largely squandered […]

In a move very few professional wrestling fans had on their 2023 bingo cards, John Cena and MJF appeared together at the premiere for the latter’s film The Iron Claw, looking buddy-buddy and even shaking hands as the duo celebrate transcending the squared-circle to become legitimate movie stars. Discussing what it was like to not […]

John Cena is a WWE icon. He also wants AEW star MJF to be as well. During an interview with Chris Van Vliet, Cena reflected on meeting MJF at the premiere of The Iron Claw last year. Cena first acknowledged that while he is a WWE star for life, he still wanted to meet the […]

When it comes to having massive wins over the biggest and the best performers in AEW history, few have as many as Wardlow, the MJF heater-turned-TNT Champion who now finds himself as the biggest performer in the Undisputed Kingdom alongside Adam Cole, Roderick Strong, Mike Bennett, and Matt Taven. And yet, despite his resume, Wardlow […]

When Samoa Joe signed with AEW in April of 2022, few expected to see the “Samoan Submission Machine” hold up the biggest prize in the promotion, the AEW World Championship, before the clock struck 00:00 in 2023. Now granted, championship gold has pretty much followed Joe no matter where he’s gone during his career, holding […]

If there’s one complaint fans might have from MJF’s World Championship run in AEW, it’s that his reign was a little too much Sports Entertainment and not enough professional wrestling. On paper, it makes sense, right? MJF is by all accounts a massive fan of wrestling’s past, basing much of his presentation on old-school legends […]

After turning in an all-time brutal performance at Worlds End, costing MJF the World Championship against Samoa Joe before revealing himself as The Devil alongside his band of henchmen, Adam Cole finally addressed his actions at AEW Worlds End on the first Dynamite of 2024, and you’d best believe the fans in New Jersey, many […]

After his sudden removal from the AEW Roster after losing his world title at World’s End, speculation around Maxwell Jacob Friedman’s future ran wild. While MJF has a high chance of finding himself following CM Punk’s footsteps, is it still possible for him to also make an appearance in this year’s WWE 2K game? The […]

Taking the ring in the main event of AEW Worlds End, MJF knew he wasn’t just wrestling one opponent but two, with Samoa Joe set to take him to task between the bells and The Devil, his masked foe of unknown identification, all but certainly set to participate in some extracurricular activities when the match […]

MJF has been the AEW World Champion for 407 days. Initially winning the title at Full Gear 2022 in a Prudential Center showdown against the promotion’s workhorse, Jon Moxley, the “Salt of the Earth” has built himself into the true focal point of AEW television, becoming best bros with Adam Cole after initially beginning their […]

After turning in a solid showing with Full Gear at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, AEW is officially returning to Pay-Per-View for its final show of 2023: Worlds End. Booked firmly in MJF country, Long Island, New York, the show is set to serve as an inflection point for the promotion, closing out what […]

For the first time since AEW debuted in 2019, the promotion will close out the calendar year with a bang, running a brand new Pay-Per-View, Worlds End, live from MJF‘s home of Long Island on the final Saturday in December. Billed as a turning point for the promotion, which, in turn, has been going through […]

MJF has been a member of AEW since the beginning. An OG who appeared in the very first official match on the first-ever All In, taking a loss to Matt Cross after a pair of pre-show buy-in matches, MJF has slowly risen up the card from Cody Rhodes’ friend to faction leader, all the way […]

As MJF prepares for the “bidding war of 2024,” fans of AEW and WWE have been debating where the “Best in the World” should wrestle next and what the future of Tony Khan’s company could look like if they lose yet another marquee performer to Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s newly revamped creative department. With WWE […]

In a few short days, MJF will wrestle what might just be the most important match of his AEW World Championship reigns in front of his hometown crowd in Long Island, when he goes toe-to-toe with one of the biggest, baddest dudes to ever do it in the business, Samoa Joe, at Worlds End. If […]

MJF is a bit of a Renaissance man in professional wrestling. Sure, he can work a match against about anyone, even if he prefers to wrestle as little as possible, but the “People’s Scumbag” is quick to borrow from the world of single-digit WrestleManias, where fans would pop like crazy over a single bodyslam, or, […]

Though they hadn’t shared the ring since March of 2022, it felt like it was only a matter of time before CM Punk and MJF would share the ring once more in order to see who was the real AEW World Champion. Sure, MJF held the title, and rightfully so, as he won the belt […]

When Cody Rhodes noted in an interview on The Michael Kay Show that he would love for his former second, current AEW World Champion MJF, to come over to WWE in order to “swing a bat with the big boys” of professional wrestling, it turned heads around the industry. Sure, maybe Rhodes was just shooting […]

In the eyes of many fans, Cody Rhodes is a strong contender for the MVP of WWE in 2023. On paper, it makes sense, right? Rhodes has wrestled 108 matches for WWE in 2023, the most matches he’s worked since 2017, and has won all but five of his efforts – 86-2 as a singles […]

While his on-screen persona can seem pompous and sometimes borderline evil, AEW World Champion MJF is actually a nice guy. Sean Durkin, director of The Iron Claw, confirmed that to ClutchPoints. “I don’t want to burst the bubble” During a conversation with ClutchPoints about his new film The Iron Claw, Durkin discussed MJF, who stars […]

After watching CM Punk deliver his big “I’m Home” promo on RAW, wrestling fans the world over wondered how AEW would respond, especially MJF, the current World Champion and a performer with a pretty impressive resume against the “Best in the World.” Taking the ring with a cane helping him down, a byproduct of his […]

While Hulk Hogan may be considered one of the greatest performers in WWE history, one area where few will go to bat for the “Hulkster” is as an actor, as despite having appeared in 15 movies and dozens more television shows as a performer, he is still regarded as one of the worst to ever […]

After making his semi-surprising debut at AEW Full Gear as Tony Khan’s game-changing big signing, Will Ospreay stopped by the media scrum to discuss leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling, coming to America to become a fixture of weekly television, and who he would like to wrestle when he becomes a full-time member of the promotion […]

For the first time in AEW’s history, Full Gear is not the final Pay-Per-View of the calendar year, with Worlds End set to shut things down on Staten Island just before the New Year. And yet, as one of the Big 4 shows of the promotion, there’s little reason to expect anything other than a […]

After weeks and weeks of anticipation, AEW Full Gear live from beautiful Los Angeles, California, is mere hours away, and needless to say, fans are hyped as all get out to see what Tony Khan has cooking up his sleeve. In a few short hours, fans will get to see a blistering eight-match card with […]

If there’s one thing Adam Copeland knows better than most, it’s how to identify a superstar. Over his 25 years of experience in WWE under the Edge moniker, Copeland shared the ring with everyone from John Cena, to Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Seth Rollins, and even the current “Top Dog” in the promotion, Roman Reigns, […]

In AEW, there’s MJF, and then there’s everybody else. Sure, the promotion has other stars, some of whom are very popular inside the ring – Kenny Omega, Christian Cage, Darby Allin – and some who are popular outside of it – Ric Flair, Adam Copeland, Saraya – but when you look at the premier storylines […]

After taking part in a Collision main event so impressive that some professional wrestling fans complained that it shouldn’t have been given away for free on television, MJF and Kenny Omega stuck around in the ring a little longer so the longest-reigning World Champion in the promotion’s history could address the crowd, thank the “Best […]

When AEW announced that MJF and Kenny Omega, two of the promotion’s top in-ring wrestlers and overall stars, were going to go toe-to-toe on Collision for the AEW World Championship, it drew reaction from across the professional wrestling world. To some, the match’s announcement was met with nothing but praise, with fans celebrating the ability […]

Mark Henry has seen a lot in his professional wrestling career. He’s seen stars come and go, watched his own profile go from faction member to World Heavyweight Champion to elder statesman of the industry, and now happily finds himself a member of AEW, where he wears a number of hats from producer to confidant, […]

Though he may be forever remembered by a segment of the professional wrestling world as the leader of the “Yes! Movement” – not to be confused with the “Yeah! Movement” of 2023 – Bryan Danielson is also widely regarded as one of the greatest technical wrestlers of his or any generation, with the Wrestling Observer […]

Despite delivering a blistering, nearly 3-hour-long episode of AEW Dynamite if you factor in the 15-minute overrun and a 30-minute digital preshow that featured Eddie Kingston defending his Ring of Honor World Championship and New Japan Strong Openweight Championship against Minoru Suzuki, the one lasting segment that will keep fans talking for a very long […]

Whether Grayson Waller wrestles one more match or 1,000 in the WWE Universe, he will forever get to tell his friends and family that his first match on the main roster came against Edge, the “Rated-R Superstar,” in the main event of SmackDown at Maddison Square Garden. Working a program that was short but sweet, […]

When CM Punk debuted the “Real” AEW World Championship – aka the AXW Championship – it was meant to ruffle a few feathers. Sure, the idea behind the belt was sound, or at least sound-ish, as Collision was being positioned as the SmackDown to Dynamite‘s RAW, with a “main” title needed to give the Saturday-only […]

When Tony Khan announced that, after booking All In for the last weekend in August and All Out for the first weekend in September, that he had booked a brand new AEW Pay-Per-View, WrestleDream, planned for the first Sunday in October, this time coming to fans from the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, it […]

Ever since MJF and Adam Cole started cutting video packages like they were working for Paul “Triple H” Levesque in prime-era NXT, a small but passionate subset of the AEW audience have been begun to compare their work to that of Roman Reigns, The Usos, Solo Sikoa, and Paul Heyman, aka The Bloodline. Now granted, […]

On a recent edition of the Jim Cornette Drive Thru podcast, a fan wrote into the show to ask Bryan Last and his Camp-y co-host what he thought of a recent statement made by The Undertaker on his WWE’s sponsored 1 deadMAN Show in Glasgow, Scottland, where the “American Bada**” put over the AEW World […]