MJF Drama - MJF IS BACK [9/4]

[Da King]

You brain dead marks still getting worked by the sheets

 

[NoMorePie]

Take this with a grain of salt

I thought tumblr died

 

[Vice Queen]

I thought tumblr died

It ain't dead but it ain't poppin either since they took all the porn off.

 

[Finn Baller]

It ain't dead but it ain't poppin either since they took all the porn off.

similar to pro wrestling

 

[Norrin Radd]

Despite AEW putting on one of their four pay-per-views last night, the biggest story coming out of the weekend is what happened behind the scenes leading up to the show.

Up until right before MJF was scheduled to appear in his match against Wardlow last night, there was finally confirmation that he would be showing up to compete. This was after a long recorded saga of MJF skipping out on his scheduled meet & greets Saturday, booking a flight to potentially leave Las Vegas overnight, and then, when he decided to stay in town, arrive at the arena “at the last minute” for his bout.

Another update has emerged from PWInsiderthat lays out what exactly happened when MJF arrived at the arena last night. According to the report, Maxwell Jacob Friedman arrived at the arena while the “Buy-In” pre-show was still airing, and then was immediately “sequestered into a room”. This happened so swiftly and quietly that the majority of the roster apparently wasn’t sure Friedman had showed up. Even when his music hit, MJF wasn’t waiting in Gorilla position.

This last-minute appearance led “some who knew he was there [to be] worried for a second that he had walked [out]”. As soon as Wardlow picked up his victory and MJF was stretchered to the back, Friedman got up and did not remain at the venue for the remainder of the card. The report notes that he was seen exiting the arena with recently signed AEW Producer Pat Buck.

As the report from “Fightful” mentioned this afternoon, MJF and AEW management both remain in Las Vegas at this time and there were plans to hold a meeting between both parties. Word is that some talents backstage are legitimately upset about the situation. Though there was an agreement to make it through AEW “Double or Nothing” last night, “nothing has been resolved regarding the core issues between the two sides.”

When asked about what went down this weekend with MJF at the post-Double or Nothing media scrums, AEW President and Founder Tony Khan declined to comment on the situation at this time.

AEW talent and management are scheduled to fly out to Los Angeles tomorrow to prepare for Wednesday’s AEW “Dynamite” debut at The Forum.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

I would have told MJF his meeting can fukking way until next week. He's got bigger fish to fry with this Discovery stuff this week.

 

[Chris Cool]

On a roster full of wwe flops. These people are delusional.

 

[MenacingMonk]

On a roster full of wwe flops. These people are delusional.

These wrasslers really are marks for themselves. Do they forget Cody is homegrown E talent?

If 10 of them leave, only 2 or 3 will be swimming above water, and they’ll be lucky to graduate to the main roster.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Don't know why they would want to unless they get paid a whole lot more money, they've always had dreams of being a top person in WWE (vast majority of them will never be that under Vince), or think WWE will help them achieve their non-wrestling dreams (like acting, for example). Which of course is totally understandable, especially the money part.

But if they get on the main roster and get put on that house show circuit, they going to be wrestling 2-5x what they are now. Cody only been there two months and he's already wrestled 23 matches there entering today. And then there is always the threat of Vince cutting them whenever the fukk he feels like it.

And I'm not convinced Vince will put them straight to the main roster. Unless it's a former WWE guy, they aren't trained in the WWE way in any manner. Will he put them in NXT? I don't know with the change in direction they made with NXT 2.0. Maybe just send them to the PC for training. Anyone they sign out of WWE is already going to be established as a wrestler, so they would be generally way overqualified for NXT as they aren't going to be some fresh out of college athlete that can't even do a body slam or a clothesline.

AJ Styles about the only guy on the main roster that got sent directly to the main roster after being outside of WWE for their entire career. AJ Styles type wrestlers are few and far between, and I can't see the ones that are at his level going to or returning to WWE at this point.

 

[Chris Cool]

These wrasslers really are marks for themselves. Do they forget Cody is homegrown E talent?

If 10 of them leave, only 2 or 3 will be swimming above water, and they’ll be lucky to graduate to the main roster.

Thinking they getting the Cody treatment, getting the Bobby Roode treatment.

 

[Hey_zeus]

We’re now at the point the wrestling “media” is participating in helping AEW with storylines

Meltz been shadow booking this thing from the jump.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Thinking they getting the Cody treatment, getting the Bobby Roode treatment.

Thinking they’re gonna get paid more money but don’t factor in that they have to pay for travel and are on the road more than AEW.

 

[CM_Burns]

We’re now at the point the wrestling “media” is participating in helping AEW with storylines

And why not? It's fake anyway

 

[THE 101]

Don't know why they would want to unless they get paid a whole lot more money, they've always had dreams of being a top person in WWE (vast majority of them will never be that under Vince), or think WWE will help them achieve their non-wrestling dreams (like acting, for example). Which of course is totally understandable, especially the money part.

But if they get on the main roster and get put on that house show circuit, they going to be wrestling 2-5x what they are now. Cody only been there two months and he's already wrestled 23 matches there entering today. And then there is always the threat of Vince cutting them whenever the fukk he feels like it.

And I'm not convinced Vince will put them straight to the main roster. Unless it's a former WWE guy, they aren't trained in the WWE way in any manner. Will he put them in NXT? I don't know with the change in direction they made with NXT 2.0. Maybe just send them to the PC for training. Anyone they sign out of WWE is already going to be established as a wrestler, so they would be generally way overqualified for NXT as they aren't going to be some fresh out of college athlete that can't even do a body slam or a clothesline.

AJ Styles about the only guy on the main roster that got sent directly to the main roster after being outside of WWE for their entire career. AJ Styles type wrestlers are few and far between, and I can't see the ones that are at his level going to or returning to WWE at this point.

Ya'll still thinking these wrestlers treat this shyt like wrestling fan boys.

Money is literally the #1 motivation for all of these wrestlers, as it should. And not just base salary but just the general exposure of WWE eclipses anything from AEW. WWE is the mountain. Ya'll can debate online how much you like about booking and workrate but WWE is the highest level to get to in the wrestling business and any ambitious person in the industry who believes in themselves should have that as a goal to achieve.

And will they be booked badly? Probably. But guess what AEW signing up every bum ass ex-WWE guy who ever worked a WWE Main Event jobber match, so why not try your hand at the big leagues to see if you can get a big push, and if it doesn't work out, Tony's mark ass gonna be there the moment your contract is up with a big ole offer.

I think AEW is a good place to start your career, build up a rep, get experience through indies and international promotions, but WWE should be a goal for any wrestler who believes in their talent.

 

[MightyHealthy]

We’re now at the point the wrestling “media” is participating in helping AEW with storylines

Meltz preserves AEW surprises constantly, SRS does memorabilia videos with Ethan Page, it is obvious.

Objective journalism can't really exist in wrestling, but these dikks hide behind plausible deniability on a regular basis, they are biased as fukk.