MJF Talks Insults, Wrestling Psychology, and Being Better Than You

Summary

The Adam Friedland Show

Episode: MJF Talks Insults, Wrestling Psychology, and Being Better Than You

Date: April 8, 2026

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Overview

This episode of The Adam Friedland Show features a lively, unfiltered interview with Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF), reigning AEW World Heavyweight Champion and widely regarded as one of the sharpest—if most abrasive—minds in modern pro wrestling. The conversation explores MJF’s approach to throwing insults, the psychology of wrestling, his career progression, and his views on what makes wrestling compelling. It's interspersed with roasts, comedic tangents, and wrestling-world insights—all delivered in the irreverent, self-deprecating tone typical of Friedland. The show pulls back the curtain on both MJF’s heel persona and his real-life wrestling philosophy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Art of the Insult and Wrestling Promos

• MJF’s “Promo Game”

  • The episode opens with MJF demonstrating his signature, insult-laden style, and Adam attempting (and mostly failing) to keep up. MJF’s command of putdowns is both a skill and a central part of his onscreen character.
  • Notable roast:

    “This dumb, disgusting, sniveling he with a mustache and warts all over his face, four-eyed piece of shit is going to go down.” —MJF [01:36]

• The Challenge of “Tell Me a Joke / Do the Voice”
  MJF likens constant requests for promos to “being a comedian at a bar and someone saying, ‘Tell me a joke’.” He resists performing on cue because his insults—and wrestling character—require build-up and context. [01:17, 33:03]

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2. Wrestling Psychology Over Moves

• Promos vs. Moves

  • MJF dismisses modern wrestlers for focusing on “cool moves” rather than building emotional investment and character:

    “These guys are stupid, idiotic, scrawny, little fucking dorks. The only thing they're concerned with is hitting cool moves...” [26:14]

  • For him, the promo—the story, the narrative—is everything in pro wrestling.
  • Wrestling, he argues, is at its best when it makes “kids feel like kids again,” and AEW delivers more of this “real” feeling than its competitors.

• Cultural Impact and the Catchphrase

  • Adam and MJF discuss the impact of iconic wrestling catchphrases (“Suck it,” “Can of whoop ass,” “Yes!”) and MJF’s own, “I’m better than you and you know it.”

    "My name is Maxwell Jacob Friedman. I'm better than you and you know it—and it's effective." —MJF [13:12]

  • MJF takes pride in kids getting in trouble for repeating his catchphrase at school.

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3. Career Beginnings, AEW vs WWE, and Wrestling’s Revival

• Choosing AEW

  • MJF discusses why he joined AEW over WWE—primarily for greater creative freedom and alignment with his vision of pro wrestling [09:05]:

    “After talking to Tony Khan… I was like, I think this place is going to understand me and understand what I think professional wrestling can and should be.” [09:05]

• AEW’s Momentum & Growth

  • Covers AEW’s rapid growth (6 years old, Wembley show, 81,000 in attendance), and attributes success to a youthful, hungry roster:

    “A lot of our top acts are young, hungry men…we're starving for success.” [28:33]

  • Critiques WWE’s reliance on “guys in their 40s” and nostalgia.

• First Wrestling Inspiration

  • MJF recounts the moment he fell in love with wrestling after seeing Mick Foley vs. The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match:

    “The first match I ever watched in full was Mick Foley, Mankind vs. The Undertaker in the Hell in a Cell match...I was like heroin addict level hooked. After that, it was over.” [22:13]

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4. Insider Stories & Wrestling Realities

• On Fans and Intense Reactions

  • MJF recalls an incident where a deranged fan (posing as a pilot) tried to abduct him after a show:

    “They asked this guy what were you planning on doing? And he was honest. He said he was going to fucking abduct me.” [43:11]

• Physical Toll of Wrestling

  • MJF outlines his “old school” mentality about injuries—wrestling through pain and injury as a badge of honor:

    “The times I have been hurt, I didn't...I, like, lied, and I just continued to wrestle...if you don't do it, you're a pussy. Do you want to be the best or not?” [61:39]

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5. Jewish Identity & Cultural Tangents

• Jewish Humor & Banter
  • MJF and Adam repeatedly riff on Jewish identity (family, Passover, Long Islanders, “Jewishness meter”), poking at stereotypes while embracing shared background.
  • Includes a comedy-call to Adam’s dad (“On a scale of 1 to 10, how Jewish are you?”) [18:02]
  • Running Black humor about Goldberg, family, and tragic events—skewering wrestling’s melodrama and their own upbringings.

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6. Wrestling and Pop Culture

• Wrestling as Zeitgeist

  • Conversation about wrestling’s unique ability to intersect with pop culture and American emotion—using “Stone Cold,” “The Rock,” and John Cena’s Osama bin Laden announcement as reference points.

    "Right now, professional wrestling is hot...it has a lot to do with what my company is doing right now.” —MJF [69:00]

• AEW and Political Leanings

  • AEW’s openness to the audience’s voice versus WWE’s controlled production; fans’ anti-ICE chant as a sign of AEW’s rawness and “not being affiliated with any party,” making it welcoming to all. [46:27, 48:04]

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7. Memorable Banter & Running Gags

• Self-deprecatory exchanges about attractiveness, family tragedy, and whose “mom is hotter.”
• Adam and MJF insult-battling (“your mom had sex with the whole company,” “I killed your mom,” etc.) [35:15–38:09]
• MJF’s deadpan: “There’s probably plenty of kids that are paralyzed. And I think that’s funny...before all AEW shows, we tell people, ‘hey, don’t try this at home’…” [15:13]
• Classic wrestling humor about geography, game consoles, and Adam’s dad’s accent.

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Catchphrases and Impact

  “As a kid, you would throw around those catch phrases that you hear on tv. I do a lot...when I’m in the airport people are screaming it.” —MJF [14:45]

• On Wrestling’s Appeal

  “You remember that moment, and it’s a part of your core memory. And I think that's something that sports offers you, and that’s something that AEW offers you—but mainly that’s something that Maxwell Jacob Friedman offers you.” —MJF [69:49]

• On Wrestling Through Injury

  “I wrestled Kenny Omega with an entirely torn rotator cuff and AC joint...then I continued to wrestle for, like, three more months.” —MJF [62:24–63:35]

• On AEW’s Realness

  “We feel like the wrestling you grew up on...it's not all squeaky clean and PG and bullshit and cinema. It's real.” —MJF [19:40]

• On Insult Battles & Wrestling Promos

  “What you’re asking me to do right now is the equivalent to...you’re at a bar, tell this girl you’re a comedian, and the first thing she says is ‘Tell me a joke.’” —MJF [33:03]

• On Viral Moments & Pop Culture

  “I've had a couple of promos go super, mega viral. People walk up to me in the streets and be like, 'Oh my God, when you said this, and that day is like...'” —MJF [69:00]

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Highlight Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:17] — MJF’s philosophy on insult requests / promo parallels
• [05:41] — Official start of the MJF interview; Jewish humor riffs
• [08:07] — Generational wrestling eras and MJF’s influences
• [13:12] — MJF’s catchphrase and its cultural impact
• [14:45] — Catchphrases, kids copying his lines
• [22:13] — MJF on his childhood wrestling inspiration
• [26:14] — Old-school psychology vs. modern “cool moves”
• [35:08–39:07] — The extended roast/insult “promo off” between Adam and MJF
• [43:11] — MJF’s wildest fan experience (abduction attempt)
• [61:39] — Discussion of injuries, working through pain
• [69:00] — AEW’s impact on wrestling’s modern renaissance & cultural relevance

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Highly irreverent and filled with both juvenile and sharp insults.
• Older-brother-younger-brother energy as Adam attempts to out-roast MJF, but frequently gets dunked on.
• Candid and occasionally dark, yet always tongue-in-cheek—true to both men's public personas, merging stand-up-style humor with wrestling heel bravado.
• Mix of inside-baseball wrestling discussion and totally accessible cultural tangents.

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For Listeners Who Haven’t Heard the Episode

This episode is less a standard “Q&A” than a stand-up act crossed with an in-character wrestling promo and a behind-the-scenes storytelling session. It’s a deep-dive into pro wrestling’s present and past, the actual craft of being a heel, and the personal and professional choices that made MJF one of wrestling’s brightest, brashest stars. The numerous tangents about family, insults, and pop culture make the episode a rollicking, unpredictable listen.

Transcript

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[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What you're asking me to do right now is the equivalent to, okay, you're out at a bar and you tell this girl you're a comedian and what is the first thing that the dumb annoying girl asks you to do?

[Adam Friedland]

Have sex with her.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No, tell me a joke, dog.

[Adam Friedland]

No, she does tell me a joke.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

She says, tell me a joke. All right, well, when it comes to Adam Friedland, this dumb, disgusting, sniveling he with a mustache and warts all over his face, four eyed piece of shit is going to go down.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, Adam Friedland, what do you have to say? Okay, so then I'm like, dude, I hate you like so much. Hell yeah, dude, you just suck.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

All right.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Like, no, dude, you're killing it.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm gonna punch you so hard right in the face. Your mom had with every single guy at the company. Even the guys that clean the bathrooms. Okay. And not only them, just guys that live like near the building. Second of all, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Adam Friedland Show. I'm your host, Adam Friedland. It's a new, it's a new thing. I'm host Adam Friedland. End of next week, the 17th 18th Tampa, Florida side Splitters Comedy Club. Please come. It's a really fun club. I forgot to mention pretty much for two months that I'm gonna be in Tampa, Florida, end of next week. The 17th and 18th Friday. It's gonna be a blast. Los Angeles, California. San Francisco, California. Portland, Oregon. More dates to be added go to AdamFreedland Show. My guest this week is reigning AEW heavyweight champion of the world, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, or MJF for short. He's a wrestler, folks. But before prepping for this interview, I didn't know anything about the world of wrestling. Violence and gore has never been my thing. If you've asked me to name a professional wrestler, I suppose I would have said Jesse the Body Ventura, who I of course know as the former Governor Van the 32nd state, Minnesota. Remember, he used to say that the people of Minnesota, always eager to learn. I dove headfirst into the world of professional wrestling, and what I found shocked me. Now, I'm not sure if AEW is aware of this, but MJF is a potty mouth. He says foul things. And I was under the impression that wrestlers are like superheroes or firefighters fingers who exist for little boys to look up to, to aspire to. In that regard, MJF is a massive failure. He insults people, he's rude, and he seems to have little to no respect for his opponents in the ring. And this is why, in preparation, my employees have prepared a list of insults. Is that correct, boys? Crafted especially to hurt me in an effort to harden my heart before I sit down to face off with one of the meanest guys that's ever been a on tv. All right, all right, Go ahead. Yo mama's so ugly, your dad takes her to work with him every day so he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye. Funny. Used to be called a jumpoline before yo mama got on it. Yo mama is so poor, she eats cereal with a fork to save milk. Yo mama's so old to save milk to save milk. So she listens. She reuses the. She just has soggy. Yeah, she has.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

She has soggy.

[Adam Friedland]

Did you hear about the gay Polish guy? He slept with women. Why? Because he's soggy.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

He's opposite.

[Adam Friedland]

He likes opposites. Okay, I think I'm ready for this episode. Please enjoy Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Let's do the ads. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct honor to welcome the champion of all elite wrestling. He's also. He's also Jewish. Mjf.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Here we go, baby. Two Jews about to chop it up. Can you believe this? This is fantastic. Right here, buddy.

[Adam Friedland]

Right here.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

This is gonna be great. Dude, this. You. You. Well, yeah, let's rock out a little bit.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Wow.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Best theme song in wrestling.

[Adam Friedland]

That's the best theme song in wrestling.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh. Hands down.

[Adam Friedland]

Even close of all time, you think?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Probably of all time. Yeah. You know that.

[Adam Friedland]

And it's not the glass breaking.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I mean, great. What, you want me to sit here and pretend that's not great turn to turn?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I mean, that's iconic, but like.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But that has become iconic of this generation.

[Adam Friedland]

You're. You're still, you know, you know, you're a young man still run.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm a young man. But hall of fame career already.

[Adam Friedland]

Your career, like, you will have an iconic. Like when you hear Whose music is that?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

When that bass drops.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah. And they will know that, like the fart sounding kind of guy. It's Mr. Fart.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's Mr. Fart Sounding Man.

[Adam Friedland]

It's the Howard Stern character. Fart man. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

There you go.

[Adam Friedland]

No. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming. Happy Passover. Congratulations. That now two time champions.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Absolutely.

[Adam Friedland]

All this is in the way.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm gonna move it. You guys want to see this belt? Beautiful. Look at this thing.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah, actually, that was great. So who makes these things?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I have. No, some, you know, poor schlucky looking guy.

[Adam Friedland]

And are these real diamonds?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Real diamonds? Real gold. Platinum gold.

[Adam Friedland]

Have you had someone with a, like, you know, that tester thing?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I have not done the tester, but my company, like the company itself, Ali Wrestling, has done the tester because they paid a wide margin of money for this world championship.

[Adam Friedland]

Did they go to the diamond district?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

That I don't know. I can't speak.

[Adam Friedland]

Some uncut gems, kind of like. You have your belt ready? Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Well, I can tell you this, the person who made this belt, not a Jew. You know, this is. This is probably a guy from like Arkansas or Alabama that does, like, leather work. But then as far as the jewels go.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, thank you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

That is where we came in. Yeah. No, no, this is not a gentile.

[Adam Friedland]

You got diamonds from a guy.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Adam Friedland]

Diamonds from arch.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No, these aren't fakacta diamonds. They're real diamonds.

[Adam Friedland]

They're not a fugazi.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No fugazi. No fakacta.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I've had a great time researching for this. Cause like, I obviously was super into wrestling growing up and then kind of like it ended maybe the attitude era. You're younger than me. You're 30, correct?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

30 on the nose.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes, sir. So I'm 38. So you missed kind of everything. Great.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I missed a lot of the cool shit and then when I came into the play, it was called the Ruthless Aggression Era. So you're talking about your John Cena's, your Kurt Angles, you know, Randy Orton. These were the guys.

[Adam Friedland]

Brock Lesnar, was that also known as the PG era?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It was also a part of the PG era, which is why I woked it. What's that?

[Adam Friedland]

They woked it. They tried to.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

They woke it up. It got wokey, and it's still a little PG now. But, like, for me, that's why when I was a kid, I gravitated towards a lot of the old school traditional stuff, like your Ric Flairs of the World, your Roddy Pipers of the World. And I fell into just a rabbit hole of old school 80s territory wrestling because I was like, oh, this is cool. Why can't it be cool? And then AEW came along and I was like, I can make. I can make the thing. Like what I. What my vision is for pro wrestling. I'm given the leash to try to, you know, throw that out there. And that's. That's what I'm doing now.

[Adam Friedland]

So that was your thought process in choosing aew?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Absolutely.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, wwe, you had the freedom and the agency.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yes, absolutely. And WWE was very interested in me when I was, Gosh, I think 21 or 22 at the time. And AEW was just starting out. It wasn't even a thing yet. But after talking to Tony Khan, my boss, I was like, I think this place is going to understand me and understand what I think professional wrestling can and should be.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You know, so they call it that.

[Adam Friedland]

What, the 203 call? Right. Really? Getting the 203 call.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What's the 203?

[Adam Friedland]

From Connecticut.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

From Connecticut. That's cute.

[Adam Friedland]

That's cute.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, some people say Connecticut, some people say the New York call.

[Adam Friedland]

The new. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

That's not New York.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, it's not New York.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, sorry.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Ruh. Row.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. All right, give me a second. Sorry. Okay. Okay. What's. What. What's going on? My mic.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Can we keep this in the blooper reel?

[Adam Friedland]

Just give me a second.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The thing about poor people from Vegas is, you know, it's gonna take time for them to adapt when they make it big. This is a big deal for him. He's interviewing the world champion. The lights don't work anymore. Very nice.

[Adam Friedland]

Very nice. Wow.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The problem is you look more like a ranch hand.

[Adam Friedland]

A rabbi.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, that's another one. You're just missing the Pesach.

[Adam Friedland]

I. Okay, guys, I got to tell you something like literally. I'm not lying. That was a. That was a for effort. I would say a C minus, but

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

you gave your all.

[Adam Friedland]

In my stomach, the butterflies.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, I felt it.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You ascended the lights.

[Adam Friedland]

Cut the bell.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

How do you feel right now?

[Adam Friedland]

I want to choke slam you so bad. I want a tombstone pile drive you. I just want combat. Okay, so cool. You get to do that.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's fun. It's a really good time.

[Adam Friedland]

And they scream.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

They. For me, they boo quite, quite loudly for some reason. Because I think I'm a great guy.

[Adam Friedland]

No, you've crossed that threshold a little bit. You've got that thing the Rock had where he was like, you said it, not me. Where it's like, you're so good at it that they love. They love being a dick. You know, I. I gotta say, like, the first time I became aware of you is I have a group of friends who all live in. Outside the city and they're all like those guys that, like, they all went to like rehab together. So they've been.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, yeah. So clearly they're wrestling fans, so.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes, exactly.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

They've been sober. They've been sober since they were like, you know, like 20.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

So they have to like get into baby stuff so they. So they can't do drugs in it to stop them from doing drugs. And so it was like Thursday. They were like, oh, Smackdown's on it. I was like, I haven't watched in so long. And I watched and I guess I just didn't. I'm going to be a boomer for a second, but I feel like in my generation, we just had the. We've had Stone Cold. We had the Rock and we had just like. It was exhilarating. I was like, who are the new guys? Like that. And I just didn't connect right. I saw that there was like Roman Reigns and a bunch of Samoan guys were like, they're. They had a frat and then some guy, Sammy. They were like being mean to him.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Sammy Zane.

[Adam Friedland]

And I was like, I'm just not connecting with this. And then we switched to AEW afterwards and I saw this is the only. This guy is a fucking star. Yeah. And I'm. And you're looking at the schmucks in the audience and you're like, you're poor.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah. And they, they are. That's the sad truth.

[Adam Friedland]

You're like, look at me. And I'm a fancy man, man. You're poor and I'm stronger than you. The catchphrase. Let's go through that. What is your catchphrase?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

My name is Maxwell Jacob Friedman. I'm better than you and you know

[Adam Friedland]

it's better than you and you know

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

it, and it's effective.

[Adam Friedland]

Can I give you a couple notes?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Please.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. You need something that enters the cultural zeitgeist.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

When DX did two words, suck it.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

It caused an epidemic in middle school

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

of children just pointing out your crotches. Absolutely.

[Adam Friedland]

We were just. To teachers. I mean, there was. There were parent meetings about it. Suck it is still in the cultural vernacular. People don't even realize.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah. They don't even know what it's from.

[Adam Friedland]

That. It's from dx.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What I'll say is we have a guy in our company, his name is Bryan Danielson, and he would do this. Yes. Chant. And now you see it all the time at the Islanders games and people don't even realize it's a wrestling thing.

[Adam Friedland]

Can of whoop ass. That's everywhere. Right.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Jabroni.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know. Did he come up with Jabroni or.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Jabroni is originally the Iron Sheik said Jabroni the Rock heard him say it. He loved it. And then he started doing it on television.

[Adam Friedland]

Is he still. Still with us? The Iron Sheik.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The Iron Sheik, I believe, passed away, unfortunately. Great guy.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, great guy. Also the. The other guy. I see a lot of, obviously, with the promos, like, you have to connect it to the, like, probably the best I've ever seen it promos. I. I see you up there. But like, it's, it's, it's the Rock, I mean, like, of all time that I ever watch.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

In your opinion. Sure. I would put Steve Austin up there as well.

[Adam Friedland]

And that's the bottom line. Yeah, but bottom line is just that's. No one said, you know, I just think I'm better than you is a thing that rich girls in high school say.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So what I will say is it's. And it. It does mean a lot to me. Just because as a kid, you would throw around those catch phrases that you hear on tv. I do a lot. When I'm in the airport, people are screaming it. I hear stories, especially on the island, where parents feel the need to run up to me to let me know that their child got in trouble because they just pointed at the teacher and said it.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So it's cool. It's catching on.

[Adam Friedland]

How bad has a kid. A kid may have died trying to do one of your moves. Do you think?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, there's probably plenty of kids that are paralyzed. And I think that's funny because you

[Adam Friedland]

probably have, like a body count on you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, for sure. But the thing is, before all the AEW shows, we tell people, hey, don't try this at home. So if you do it, you know, don't.

[Adam Friedland]

If you say that, then we literally tell, hey, don't do this if you're 11 years old.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

What, are you gonna not do it at home?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, I mean, I know I did. That's why I do it now for a living. Professionally. It's just. I did it better than everybody at the pool.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you remember just doing a. Like a rock bottom with your friend?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You mentioned. You mentioned a tombstone. Yeah, that was my go to move is I would sling someone over my shoulder and I'd do a running tombstone off the diving board.

[Adam Friedland]

And the pool, we would paralyze children, for sure.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The fact that. The fact that all wrestling fans are still breathing is a testament, you know, to the human race and our toughness. Because I don't know anyone who grew up watching pro wrestling that didn't just beat the shit out of somebody trying to perform what they were watching, you know, on tv. I think everyone attempted a figure four leg lock. I feel like at least once in their life.

[Adam Friedland]

And then our moms would be just.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Just very opinion. Especially Jewish mothers when you're real bitches.

[Adam Friedland]

Crying. And he's just being so. Such a fucking.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

My fault. He's a pussy.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. You know, and it's like, what? He shouldn't have fucking erased my memory card.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's a PlayStation. It's a mess.

[Adam Friedland]

I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have fucking. I wouldn't have.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So PlayStation before my time. So Xbox. What was the. The console. Although I will say, When I was five, I remember GameCube. I have a memory of game.

[Adam Friedland]

Remember Crazy Taxi?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I do remember crazy. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It was about a drunk guy. Yeah. People.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, there was. Because there was different timeout.

[Adam Friedland]

It was.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

There was different crazy Taxi. Like characters that you could be when you drove the car, I believe.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

At least the version that I played.

[Adam Friedland]

I did the. I did the. Oh, I don't want to do what Asian woman.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I see.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah, come on. I would never. I would never. We'll cut that. Yeah, yeah, I did the Asian one.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

We'll fix it in post.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, we'll fix that.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

We'll fix your racism in post.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, fine. Well, actually, can I get my iPad? I left.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[Adam Friedland]

I have my question. Okay, so. No, it's right behind you. It's right behind. Fantastic. This will be cut to cut Edit point. Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What I will say. And I'm gonna cut you off for two seconds because I'm a lot bigger than you and I can.

[Adam Friedland]

You're not a lot bigger than me. Yeah, go ahead.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay, so you had mentioned something about the difference between WWE and aew, and I think that's why right now my company has so much momentum is it feels like the shit that people grew up on and it's exciting. No, please take the phone call.

[Adam Friedland]

My dad's calling.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Is it okay if I take it?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah. Cause you have the same. Wait, look at his name. Look at his name.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Let me talk to Max.

[Adam Friedland]

Wait, wait, wait. Yeah, but I gotta. Okay, yeah. Dad, dad. Max, I'm in the middle of an interview right now. Yeah, yeah, but guess what the guy's name is.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

My name is also Max. You're talking to the AEW World Champan.

[Adam Friedland]

And your name is Max Freedland.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So, Max, I got a question for you. On a scale of 1 to 10, how Jewish are you?

[Adam Friedland]

I'm in 11.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

11. I love that answer. Am I detecting an accent, my friend?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, he's from Cape Town. Yes, I am. I'm. I'm Kurdish.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, exciting. You know, so we just. Yes, Yes. I. We actually just had a show in Australia. Around your neck of the woods.

[Adam Friedland]

That's not. No, that's nowhere near.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What are you talking about?

[Adam Friedland]

You should have. Gotta call it.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I thought you said Australia.

[Adam Friedland]

No, he's from South Africa.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

South Africa. That's very far to stand. Kurdistan. Yeah, I'm a pro wrestler, not a fucking geographer. All right, okay, okay. How many Jews are there in Cape Town?

[Adam Friedland]

I feel like a lot. Really. Don't count, dad. Don't count Jews.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's okay.

[Adam Friedland]

No, if you count, it's dicey. Yeah, that's what they did. They like to count us.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Well, at least he's not writing the numbers down on them, right?

[Adam Friedland]

All right, Pop, I have.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Max, it's been lovely talking to you.

[Adam Friedland]

It's been absolutely gorgeous talking to you too, sir.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Kike to kite. This has been so much fun, Max, and I thank you.

[Adam Friedland]

And I'm better than you, and you know it. Okay, that's.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

He's a great guy.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just hurt his feelings.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But as. But as.

[Adam Friedland]

I gotta call him back and tell him that that's a thing from you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But as I was saying, I think that's. That's what makes my company stand out, is we. We feel like the wrestling that you grew up on.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And it's not all squeaky clean and PG and bullshit and cinema. It's real.

[Adam Friedland]

It's good. Yeah. And that. That. That was, again, that was a WCW moment. Oh, yeah, right. Which was. That was the new Kid on the Block as well, for sure.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And we're on the same. We're Warner. We're in that Warner umbrella.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. So when. What. What do you. I like, apropos of that, like, Goldberg moment, which is so funny. Yeah. I mean, it's so. You kind of are carrying the torch. Max Friedman.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, but like, Max Goldberg, Bill Goldberg. Everyone was like, the way you're saying it somehow makes it sound more Jewish.

[Adam Friedland]

Bill Goldberg just won the championship.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, my God. Bill Goldberg.

[Adam Friedland]

With this speed, there's nothing they can do to stop it.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I mean, this guy's out of his mind.

[Adam Friedland]

I said they never let us. They never let us. Okay, but, like, what was the moment that you had. Like that. Like, what was the moment you fell in love? Because you were. You. At five, you were on Rosie o'. Donnell. Correct. You said you wanted to be a

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

wrestler at five years old. I told the world.

[Adam Friedland]

So, so what was the moment?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You.

[Adam Friedland]

You decided, like, I've. You fell in love with that. With. With it. And you, like, knew, I want. This is what I wanted to do.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

This is such a lame answer, but the first time I saw it, I didn't.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And. And what had happened was I was at my uncle. House. Uncle Alan Weissman, if. If you're curious. Not a question.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was the. He was the super lightweight. They made a new division. The lightest.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yes.

[Adam Friedland]

One of the lightest. He only fought women. Yeah. They couldn't find the man in his weight class.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Well, Andy Kaufman, another Jew, used to fight women.

[Adam Friedland]

I know. That was so good.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It was tremendous.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But. So I was at my uncle's house. He was showing me the wrestling. I immediately was engrossed with it. And I made my father take me to, at the time, what was called Hollywood Video.

[Adam Friedland]

I used to. We used to go to Hollywood Video, too.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, there you go. I wasn't a Blockbuster guy. I was a Hollywood.

[Adam Friedland]

It was closer to the house. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I went with my dad. And I didn't get to see the matches in full when I was at my uncle's house because it was like a family party going on. It was a Friday night. It might have been Passover. Good Shabbos

[Adam Friedland]

cut that in this day and age.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, yeah. We can't Be too Jewish. We'll offend somebody.

[Adam Friedland]

We're gonna start. President Fuentes is gonna start Auschwitz II after this. Okay, stop. We'll cut that. It's just the straight face of the PR division. Okay, continue.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So, yeah, I made my dad take me and I just saw one disc and this is why it's so funny to me that you came out to his music. I saw it was a VHS and on the COVID was this zombie looking guy. And I put it in and I fast forwarded to what was called a Hell in a Cell match because it sounded the most interesting. The first match I ever watched in full was Mick Foley, Mankind vs. The Undertaker in the Hell in a Cell match, which is probably one of the greatest matches of all time. And I was, I was like heroin addict, level hooked. After that, it was over.

[Adam Friedland]

He was cool because he, he had different Personas. Like simultaneously he would do Dude, Love and Mankind. And there was a third one, if I remember.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I don't dude love Mankind. Cactus Jack.

[Adam Friedland]

Cactus Jack.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

There you go. And a cool factoid. Mick Foley wants, wanted me to retire him. He had, he had reached out to my boss and asked if he could do a program with me. And I was like, he's a little fat and old, but I, you know, I consider it.

[Adam Friedland]

So you beat his ass.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I was ready to. He got hurt in training, really. And so we never got to do it. And he recently, after one of my matches, he posted that, you know, I, I wanted to wrestle mjf. I still want to wrestle.

[Adam Friedland]

He gave you your flowers?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, he gave me my flowers. God bless him. God bless another Long islander.

[Adam Friedland]

What does it feel like when, when a guy like that, like, shows love like, or like gives you your. I mean, the Undertaker did as well. I saw a clip of him talking

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

about the Undertaker, John Cena. John Cena, the Rock hat. You know, it's. I don't want to say I see it coming because that seems egotistical and anyone who knows me knows I'm a really humble guy. But what I will say is, you

[Adam Friedland]

know, you're good, though.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

That's the thing. Yeah, I know, I know how great I am and I know I'm going to go down as an all time great. But when you hear other all time greats say it, and I think you'll understand this because I know you're a comedian. If a good comedian tells. Exactly.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it feels good.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It feels good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Even if, you know deep down, like, goddamn right it was a good set on me, but still. Oh, Shit. The guy that I grew up watching do this thing that I love is telling me that I'm good at this thing.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it's.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's special, for sure. It's absolutely special.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Alonzo Hamburger Jones one. One time.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Did he really?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What was that moment like?

[Adam Friedland]

Well, then he asked me to put on this dress and I had to go to a party in the.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Was it not an island?

[Adam Friedland]

No, no island.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You didn't go to the island?

[Adam Friedland]

No island. Yeah, no island.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No island.

[Adam Friedland]

YouTube was around when you were in high school, so that's how you, like,

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

did your research fully. Was YouTube? Yeah, YouTube was around essentially my entire childhood. I know that for you. What were you, like, a Vimeo guy?

[Adam Friedland]

YouTube came out in kind of in college.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Don't laugh at him being old, what

[Adam Friedland]

you said YouTube was. And like. Yeah, YouTube war. So was, like, a real thing in college. Yeah, but, like, so that's how you could access, like, all the.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Everything I was able to watch, like.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The full canon of old school wrestlers and all the territories that were, like, cut off. So, like, most of the world didn't get to watch what was going on in a Portland territory or in a Texas territory in Amarillo, Texas. And, like, you just get to. In my opinion, if you're not incredible this day and age, you're just lazy. Cause, like, there's so much to study, and I study rigorously, you know, so.

[Adam Friedland]

Going back to, like, when I first saw you on aew, like, one thing that I think that you kind of grasp, that I think is to me, what's more important is not the actual technical aspects of a fight, it's that it means something. It's the fact that I, Bill Goldberg,

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I prayed, you know, creating an emotional investment.

[Adam Friedland]

And there's this guy that doesn't even talk, and he's just strong and he's on this. He comes out of nowhere and he's on a streak. I mean, you're, like, narratively, you're attached to it. So, like, when you. The fact that you do, you feel like other wrestlers in this day and age take promos as seriously as you do.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No, these guys are stupid, idiotic, scrawny, little fucking dorks. And the only thing they're concerned with is hitting cool moves. So they get a round of applause.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's not something I can relate to at all.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm here to be a star. I'm here to make the most money. I'm here to be world champion. I'm here to be a draw I'm here to start doing big movies, which I'm already starting to do. I'm here to make a name for myself and build my brand up to such a point that I become synonymous with not just all elite wrestling, but with professional wrestling as a whole. So in 20 years from now, you know, someone's sitting down and going, holy fucking shit. So you're a wrestler like. Like mjf?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Because right now, when people say, oh, you're a wrestler like the Rock, or you're a wrestler like Stone Cold, that's my goal. There's an argument to be made that all elite wrestling, for the most part, is. Is where only real. The most real wrestling is happening.

[Adam Friedland]

So tell me, tell me about the company. Like, you guys are exploding.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You're like, yeah, we're killing it right now.

[Adam Friedland]

How fast are you growing?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So the company's only six years old. Yeah, we had a show already with 81,000 people there at Wembley Stadium. I main evented it and won. Shocker. Now we're up met. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, we're killing it. Metrically, we're up year over year in literally every single important key demo, like ticket sales, ratings, pay per view buys. I wonder if it's because I'm world champion. Who's to say?

[Adam Friedland]

Who's to say?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Who's to say?

[Adam Friedland]

Well, it's. The anti Semitism is also big.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Well, they have to tune in. Hopefully the Jew gets his come on stake this guy.

[Adam Friedland]

This is great for us.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yes. This anti Semitism.

[Adam Friedland]

We don't get enough business.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

More, please. And no, we're absolutely killing it. And the thing is, as much as I'd like to take complete credit, which realistically I could if I wanted to, but I'm not going to because I'm a mensch. Mention C, some say salt of the earth, you know, we've got guys like me, we've got Hangman, Adam Page, we've got Swerve Strickland, we got Samoa Joe, Chris Jericho's back. We got Jon Moxley, we got Darby Allen, we got. We've got Kenny Omega. The list goes on and on of people like you said that make people feel like kids again. They're all in my company. You tune into the other company. They've got great stuff going on, but all their top acts are in their 40s. They just are. And a lot of our top acts are young, hungry men. You know, pause. No, no, pause. We're starving. We're starving for success.

[Adam Friedland]

But from what I understand. But my belly's Full in Connecticut. I. From what I understand, in order to like drive engagement, they're bringing back like 75 year olds.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yes. They're bringing back like, okay, yeah, you hit the music of the Undertaker. Which is, which is understandable because the Undertaker was when everybody was, you know, growing up in your age demographic.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And also, honestly, in mine, star stud. Like top draw. Right.

[Adam Friedland]

Scary.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Right. So what do you do if you need to get general people who don't really watch your product anymore or kind of bored by your product? Bring John Cena back. Bring the Undertaker back. And that's not me shitting on wwe. I get it. It's a smart business practice. But what we're doing and the way we're bringing thousands of people into these pay per views and these television shows, you know, Wednesdays, TBS, 8pm Saturdays, TNT, 8pm you can also watch us streaming on HBO Max. No big deal. What we're doing is we're giving you fresh, we're giving you new. We are not resting on, you know, the past.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. And you don't need to like, kind of like, what is this?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What is this? I like the sensation of this.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, I mean, this is kind of just like a pleather. I think this is a recreation of the Dick Cavett show set.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Dick Cavett.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah, from the 70s. Have you ever watched it?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Can I ask you a question?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah. What was it like growing up with a dad? Dad? That sounded like that.

[Adam Friedland]

That sounded like that. Yeah, it was.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Did it throw people off? Like when you'd have plate, like plate. Like kids would come over to play at your house where they'd be like, what the.

[Adam Friedland]

It was hard.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It was hard growing up with a dad that sounded like that.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, I bet. Fact and cuz, let's edit this part out. I didn't know he was going to get emotional.

[Adam Friedland]

All my friends just wanted to hang out with him.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Not me.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And like, I had a cool mom growing up. It was a problem. My dad, I had the same issue.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Really?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's not cuz she was hot. It was because she had like a really great personality.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Pics.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You got pictures of your mom?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Well, she passed away, but yeah, she was. She was really hot.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Was she hot before she died?

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know. The day she died? I don't think she was. She was probably pretty.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

How old are you when she passed?

[Adam Friedland]

Six years ago.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So I have a question.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You prayed that Bill Goldberg would win?

[Adam Friedland]

I prayed to God.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Did you pray to God? That your mom would be okay? Or did you only pray when Bill Goldberg. So you would say that you were more invested in Bill Goldberg winning?

[Adam Friedland]

I was a little kid that I felt bad that I didn't believe in God. And I was like, this one time. God. I also prayed. I prayed before

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

this interview.

[Adam Friedland]

No, before Stone Cold versus Shawn Michaels.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay. That Steve would win.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Hell, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm just like, please. Like, he has to.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So every prayer you've ever done was for pro wrestling?

[Adam Friedland]

It just. No. And. And maybe. Maybe, like, sports. Like. Yeah. But sure, yeah. It's just like. Well, that's the thing about the promo, right? The promo creates context and narrative and story, and that's, like, why sports matters to us is because we. We create meaning behind it, even though we're just watching, like, strong, good. Good body guys that are good at a game, you know? And, I mean, it's the same thing to me, right? Like. And so, yeah, I remember I was like, Mike Tyson and D. Generation X are up to no good God. And Stone Cold Steve Austin is just one of the most badass, coolest guys of all time that met me. If he met me, he would. He would like me. Wait, can you say that, like, every time you're on an interview, an interviewer tries to cut a promotion, they make

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

the mistake of trying to, like, outwit me, and then it gets really uncomfortable.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, can I.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And sometimes physical.

[Adam Friedland]

Can we just do.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm gonna let you do your thing.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, no. Okay. Mean, Gene's here right now. He's got the mic, and he's like, you know, okay, WrestleMania is next week, and, you know, I have a feeling

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

this is gonna go great.

[Adam Friedland]

And we're fighting each other for the championship.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Just. Just show me the magic. Show me your magic, and then I'll come back to you and I'll see you later.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What you're asking me to do right now is the equivalent to, okay, you're out at a bar, and. And you tell this girl you're a comedian, and what is the first thing that the dumb, annoying girl asks you to do?

[Adam Friedland]

Have sex with her.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No. Tell me a joke, Raw Dog. No.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. She says, tell me a joke.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

She says, tell me a joke. And then you get frustrated because it's like, well, it doesn't work like that because it's a whole bit.

[Adam Friedland]

So just do an abridged version because I have to do this bit that I prepared. Okay. It's gonna bomb, probably.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

All right, so.

[Adam Friedland]

So next week in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Adam Friedland. Yeah. So mjf, like you hate this man.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

The first all Jewish heavyweight championship. Yeah. Like, what can we be expecting in Winston Salem, North. I don't know why I'm saying that. North Carolina? Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Why are we in North Carolina?

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know why. It just sounds like a place.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Sounds something like we're wrestling.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, they do wrestling.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

All right, that's good, that's good.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

All right. Well, when it comes to Adam Friedland, this dumb, disgusting, sniveling he with a rape mustache and warts all over his face, four eyed piece of shit is going to go down.

[Adam Friedland]

Rape mustache. Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. So. All right, all right. And then Adam Friedland, what do you have to say? Okay, so then I'm like, dude, I hate you like so much. Hell yeah. You just fucking suck.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

All right.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Like, no, dude, you're fucking killing it.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm gonna punch you so hard right in the face. When I punch you. It's gonna be two hits. All right. It's gonna be the hit of me punching you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And then the recording, audio recording of everyone laughing in the stadium. Okay. Which is gonna become a number one hit single and sell more copies than Candle in the Wind. Okay. I do feel bad a little bit and I want to just. No one's telling you something and this is what makes me feel bad about how bad I'm going to be you in Winston Salem, North Carolina. So, like, I don't know if you know this, but the only reason you've got a secret, the work that you work here at this company is because your parents. Okay, okay. Your mom had sex with every single guy at the company. Even the guys that clean the bathrooms. Okay. And not only them, just guys that live like near the building.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Right?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

All of the fights you've had so far. Oh, God, this is embarrassing.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Can I just cut you off really quick?

[Adam Friedland]

You need to know this.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I have.

[Adam Friedland]

But I have all the fights you've had so far.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I have a question.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, no.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay, go ahead, go ahead.

[Adam Friedland]

All the fights you've had so far have been. Been fake because your mom, they feel bad for you, so they let you win.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

They let me win because they have sex.

[Adam Friedland]

Your mom also has sex with them. And your dad writes them a check for a million dollars.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And all the fights, including even when you were a kid, because your mom had sex with those kids.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

With those kids too.

[Adam Friedland]

And your dad wrote them a check for a million dollars.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Also I gotta say, the only reason they hired you is because it's free. Because your dad writes AEW a check

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

and then they give it to you.

[Adam Friedland]

And they give it to you to make the. To make you feel like you have a job. And then also, this is unrelated, but could you, like. I have a favor. Yeah. Could you. This is weird. Could you ask your wife to stop trying to have sex with me so much?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. Because the text messages she's been sending have been, I mean, quite frankly, disturbing. And she knows that my girlfriend is 10 times hotter than her.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And finally, here comes my catchphrase. Okay, I just. Listen, you fucking crap. Okay. Listen. Crap.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

I have one question for you, and it's a simple yes or no answer.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you recognize Israel's right to exist?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay, I'm going to respond to everything you just said. Firstly, I didn't know we were gonna go here.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I. And. Because I feel bad.

[Adam Friedland]

Ooh, brother. No, no, no, no. Ooh, I'm mad at you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No, no, no, no, no. I really do feel bad. I need you to know something. I had someone tell you that my mom sleeps with everybody on the road. No, no, it's my turn. That my mom sleeps with everybody and that's why they let me win the matches. I had somebody tell you that my father pays the boss to pay me. Okay? And I had some. I had my wife contact you to tell you that she wanted to have sex with you.

[Adam Friedland]

She said.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Now, let me explain why.

[Adam Friedland]

Sushi, dude, Let me explain why.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay, I'm going to explain why. I wanted you to feel very confident going into this match, okay?

[Adam Friedland]

Ooh.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay. I want you to feel confident going. I want you to go into this match thinking, this is gonna be easy pickings for you. And there's another part of the story. I need you to know.

[Adam Friedland]

It's gonna be easy.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Listen, your mom's dead.

[Adam Friedland]

She is.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But you don't know why.

[Adam Friedland]

Brain cancer.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Nope. That's what they told you. Oh.

[Adam Friedland]

You killed my mom.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I killed your mom, dude.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, well. Okay, Let me respond in kind, okay. To these allegations.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

First of all, in cold blood, why

[Adam Friedland]

did your mom have sex with me last night? Second of all, why did your dad give me a million dollars last night? Yeah. Third of all, yeah, you're gay. But the saddest part is that gay guys, you can't. Don't want to have sex with you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Is it because I'm closeted and they

[Adam Friedland]

love having sex with guys? So that's just depressing to me.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Third of all, probably, how many things

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

did you Write down five, six.

[Adam Friedland]

You're probably five, six, max. You're wearing lifts. You're five, six. Your mom gave me pussy last night.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You're doing great.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Lifts, pussy.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, and I have one.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm gay.

[Adam Friedland]

And I have one last catchphrase that I want to say to you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

In response to everything you've just said. All the lies.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

All the gaslighting of the AEW audience, the craziest audience, the most loyal fan base in the fucking world. Said no one ever.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

That's my catchphrase. That was sick.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Here's. Can I tell you the funniest part of this whole thing?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So what you just did, when I do, like, signings.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

People do this like, like earnestly.

[Adam Friedland]

They do it like. Like they get.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yes. Like. But they come way more prepared than what you just did.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

They have a six year old child with them and they're like, brother, they've been in front of the mirror all week. They're like, I'm gonna fucking get mjf, dude. He has no idea. And they wait in line for six hours and they pay me a lot of money. And then they stand there and they do exactly what you just did. But somehow it's better than what I just did.

[Adam Friedland]

That was hard.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You heard the crazy.

[Adam Friedland]

You had the craziest fans in the world. AEW fans. They were loving it. By round of applause, PR guy from aew, you shut the hell up. By round of applause, who won?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

People that he pays, get loud.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't pay any of these guys. Non union interns. And by round of silence, everyone. Okay, thank you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Got me, dude. You got me. You won.

[Adam Friedland]

Because it was absolutely silent. All right.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But people do what you just did, and it makes me a little.

[Adam Friedland]

They do it because they're mad at you for, I think from tv,

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm like one of the last people, I think, that invokes that, like, in humans.

[Adam Friedland]

But that means you're good. Yeah. That means you got the sauce.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

What I will say is, I don't know if I've ever told this story on a podcast.

[Adam Friedland]

So

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

someone hated me so much. And Hop might have been in the company for this. Adam Hopkins is our PR guy. For anybody that doesn't know, he's incredible.

[Adam Friedland]

Give it up for him. Give it up for him. Doing a hell of a job writing down all the things he wants to cut.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

This might have been pre Adam, but. So I'm at a show in Chicago. My father had just had a heart attack. Don't fucking I gave him that heart attack after I fucked his wife.

[Adam Friedland]

I had sex with his wife. He said it was so great that he had a heart attack. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I killed your mom.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So I'm in Chicago. My mother told me, like, don't worry, like, because this was one of the first pay per views in the history of our company. She was like, you don't want to miss this thing. So I'm there, I'm pretty distraught. I'm worried about my dad. He ended up being okay. And a pilot walks up to me and he goes, Mr. Friedman, I'm going to be flying you out back home after the show is proceeding, which, to be fair, I've flown on the jet a couple times with my boss up to that point. Anyway.

[Adam Friedland]

To my island.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Not to the island.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, sorry.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Well, to the island. As in Long island, the only island that matters.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So, yeah, there's no pedophilia going on.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't say long Island.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So Long Island. There you go. Perfect. So I'm. I find my boss after this pilot says this to me and I knock on his door. He opens the door, he goes, max. I go, that's me. I want you to know how much this means to me, the fact that you're trying to fly me back home to my dad as soon as possible after he had the heart attack. Because he did know my boss, Tony did.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And he goes, what the fuck are you talking about? And I go, the pilot just told. He goes, I didn't fucking book you a jet to go back home tonight. So now I go back over with one of my bosses, like one of the EVPs in the company, QT Marshall. And QT goes, so who he say hired you again? He goes, tony Khan. Tony Khan's my boss. We go, okay, are you sure about that? And then security comes and they grab this guy and QT goes. Before the guy leaves, he goes, wait a minute, wait a minute. Well, let you say if you show us your pilot's license. And the guy, I shit you not, does this. I left it at home. Get the fuck out of here.

[Adam Friedland]

So.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So then they fucking throw, like, I guess they like throw the guy in whatever you call it, the brig or whatever. They take him fucking.

[Adam Friedland]

How did he get access to you?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

We still don't know how he got backstage. We still don't know how he got backstage. So to be fair, though, our security change team has changed since then. But. And it probably was the building security, not even AEW security fault, but they asked this guy what were you planning on doing? And he was honest. He said he was going to fucking abduct me.

[Adam Friedland]

An adult man.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

An adult man was going to abduct his wife.

[Adam Friedland]

Just be like, what do you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You think he has a wife? You fucking lunatic. No way. No way. I mean, fuck if he does. Jesus, that's crazy. But, yeah. So that's. That's the craziest, like a fan wanting me dead scenario I've ever been in, for sure.

[Adam Friedland]

Jesus Christ.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, it was in Chicago.

[Adam Friedland]

Was he prosecuted?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

To this day, I don't know what happened after that, you know, before Adam's time.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, your hands are clean.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

His hands are clean.

[Adam Friedland]

Classic. Classic. The suits over there in the seat in the corner offices, looking down on. On the blue collar guys like us.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I don't know if I'm blue collar.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, well, you. You take your clothes off and for millions of dollars. Yeah. But you have to be strong.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, I'm pretty jacked. It's a blue. It's a blue collar thing, how jacked I am.

[Adam Friedland]

How much do you have to work out every day?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I work out six times a week. I don't work out more than once a day, though. And I do a different body part every time I'm in the gym. Every morning when I wake up, I do fasted cardio for an hour on the StairMaster. Hop in the cold, plunge, put my, you know, clothes on, and then I go to the gym. I go to bed. Francis Powerhouse Gym on Long Island. It's the best gym. Of course.

[Adam Friedland]

Give it up for that, please, Beth.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Francis Powerhouse Gym.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you ever worry that wrestling will ever have an issue of performance enhancing drugs?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

No.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You know, it's probably the most natural sport in the world.

[Adam Friedland]

Is it?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'd say so, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm. I've been. I've been juicing, too.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Recently, I can tell.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I use Blue Chew.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Blue Chew.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you remember that one of my favorite little moments was on Monday Night Raw? The announcement of the death of.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It was one of your favorite moments.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. It's one of the funniest things ever. The announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden by John Cena.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah. Osama bin Laden has been terminated or compromised. Terminated to a permanent end. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I feel goddamn proud to be an American. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Could you, like. Do you ever see yourself announcing something like a historic like that to crowd?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I. I would say no. I'm not really a political guy, you

[Adam Friedland]

know, But I'm saying it's a historic moment. It's not political to. Not like Osama bin Laden.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

You were like, oh, I don't have. I don't have a take on Osama bin Laden.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Osama bin Laden's bad. I think that's an easy take to have.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, you could have it. You could. But there's.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

There's a lot of stuff going on that's like, not great right now.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm just saying, like, if there's a historic moment, something historic like that happens, like you're the face of the. Of the company.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

So they'd have you go out there, announce it.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I don't know if I'm the right guy.

[Adam Friedland]

You're the best at promos.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm definitely the best at talking. You would be if I'm my boss. And there's like a serious announcement to make about the state of the world. Don't know if mjf.

[Adam Friedland]

The guy is a happy thing, though.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm not that happy. Delivery guy.

[Adam Friedland]

All right. Do you want to try to announce the death of President Donald Jones Trump? We're here in Winston Salem, North Carolina is a big announcement.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You know what I can say that's really interesting about my. I can actually segue this into my company because I'm so good at my job.

[Adam Friedland]

Go ahead.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

We had a Fuck ice chant.

[Adam Friedland]

I know.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I saw. You saw. You saw this.

[Adam Friedland]

It's a. It kind of went viral.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, yeah. And I think what's so cool about that is in our company, like, our fans have a voice. Yeah. And in the other company, a lot of the times when fans curse or they say something that they don't want them to say, they just bleep it. They just bleep the crowd out entirely and they edit it out of the show or they'll create fake crowd noise over it so you can't hear the chants that they're making. And I'll also say they've made a choice to be a little bit more right leaning. Triple H has done a couple speeches in the White house, and Linda McMahon, I believe, is in the cabinet.

[Adam Friedland]

She's the Secretary of Education.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I think what's cool.

[Adam Friedland]

Does it feel like representation for you?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Is that like.

[Adam Friedland]

Is that like Wakanda for you?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, for sure, for sure.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. You're like, no, but one day I could be the secretary.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Of education.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Can't wait.

[Adam Friedland]

If I learn what the difference is between South Africa, South Africa and Australia.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I gotta be so honest with you. I still don't know, dude.

[Adam Friedland]

You're such a fucking Long island piece of shit.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, yeah, that's me.

[Adam Friedland]

His entire education is Snapple facts.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Pretty much. Well, I was more of a Nantucket apple apple juice kind of guy.

[Adam Friedland]

You're a Long island guy that doesn't drink Snapple.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm not a Snapple guy.

[Adam Friedland]

That is your fucking. That's the one.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Crazy for you. Do you know Arizona iced tea?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Do you know where Arizona iced tea is actually produced and made and like where their offices are?

[Adam Friedland]

Israel.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Long Island. Which is close.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

About as many Jews in Long island

[Adam Friedland]

as there are in Israel. It's the same thing. Wait, you were saying something before that. You were saying that something before that. You were talking about AEW incident.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I was just saying we're. We are not affiliated to any party. So anybody can feel comfortable going to our shows.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like it should be like, you know, it should. It shouldn't be like that. It should be. I mean, listen, I. I don't want

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

politics involved in my.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm a progressive. But the entire stadium needs to be just like. If you don't like it, you could get the hell out.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, that's. That's the magic. That's what wrestling should be. I agree.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, no.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I agree.

[Adam Friedland]

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[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm a great.

[Adam Friedland]

You were an independent. Like, when did you go into, like, independent?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I was 18 years old. The story's kind of wild. Basically. I had a full ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

[Adam Friedland]

What's a clown college?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The place was called Hartwick University.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And yeah, I was. I was there. I had a full ride. And the head coach told me he wanted to start me as a freshman. And I felt nothing, bro. I felt absolute. I couldn't have given less of a fuck because I just wanted to be Roddy Piper. I just wanted to be a wrestler.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You know, wear a dress and the dress. Yeah, I want to put the dress on, join the Illuminati so I could become the AEW world champion. Do you think Roddy.

[Adam Friedland]

Roddy Piper,

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

probably. He was in. He was in a kilt.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, a kilt.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. So technically that's what I meant.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So, yeah. I remember telling my roommate who was also vying for a linebacker position, so this was not smart of me. Hey, I don't know if I really want to be here anymore. And he just went, oh. And left the room, which was a wild, weird response. The next day I got called into the coach's office. This motherfucker narc on me and the coach. Oh, yeah, big time snitch. The coach was like, I heard you want to leave. And I was like, yeah, you know, I didn't want to tell him why because how fucking ludicrous and stupid would I look if I. Not the rapper. If I looked at him and I said, I want to be a professional wrestler, like, he'd laugh in my face at that point. So I didn't tell him why. I just said, you know, I kind

[Adam Friedland]

of Want to go home?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And he's like, I get it, you're homesick. And I'm like, no, you know, like that's not it. And he's like, no, we've seen this here before, so I'm going to assign you an accountabilibuddy. And in walked this guy named Sal Levante. Not a Jew, and he was a 6 foot 6 offensive lineman. And he followed me everywhere for like two or three days. And I had to like, literally, like it was like a covert operation. At 3am in the morning. I like waited to see if this fucking guy was like, he was watching you, dude. Literally would follow me wherever I went. It was fucking wild. And when I told my boss this, who's with the NFL and also obviously they're a little bit affiliated with the NCAA just to, you know, because that's the farming system, basically, he was like, these. This is incredibly illegal what happened here. But like, yeah, the guy was following me around everywhere. And I waited till like 3 or 4am and I packed the essentials, not even everything. And I hopped in my Dodge Ram pickup truck and I drove all the way home. My parents were not.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, they must have fucking been so annoying. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I was not better when I looked at them and I told them

[Adam Friedland]

why you were not better than you and they didn't know it.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I found a robot wrestling school, which there's only like a handful that are reputable. It's called Create a Pro Wrestling Academy in Hicksville, Long Island. Train there. And then I would get in my car and I would drive to Indiana, Kentucky, all the way to Florida. Sometimes I drove from New York to Iowa. I drove from New York to Toronto, New York to Winnipeg, like Mexico. I did some shots in Mexico in my car. And it was all just to make a name for myself. I didn't make any money doing that. But you know, you're just trying to get your name out there. It's like baseball, there's single A, double A, triple A, and then the majors.

[Adam Friedland]

Did you have like a moment of virality? Like, did you have like a clip that like put like. How did you get on the radar of the big company?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

My answer is genuinely little by little it was momentum, which I think you can relate to actually, because you like when specifically with Cometown, like you guys were doing funny bit after funny bit and little by little it started getting traction, right? And then you started doing this and. And started getting fucking serious traction. And that was my wrestling career. Every single shot I was doing. You have More people going, fuck this MJF kid. He's something special. And that's eventually why I got contacted by WWE and aew.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah. And so when was the moment, like, would you see, like a moment, like a come up, like when you were early in the company at aew, like, when was your moment that you kind of stamped your mark?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I got really, like, I shouldn't say lucky, it's because of skill, but I was put in a situation where it was sink or swim, and anybody else would have sank, but I swam and it immediately made me a star.

[Adam Friedland]

What was that moment?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It was the very first pay per view in the history of our company was double or nothing. Which, by the way, double or nothing, May 24, if you're interested, is going to be right here in New York. New York.

[Adam Friedland]

I'll be there. I'll be there, right?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Why not?

[Adam Friedland]

Hell yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Why the fuck not, baby? There, let's get you a ticket.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm not gonna pay though, right?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Because I'm not paying.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah. You put the dress on. You were at the Island.

[Adam Friedland]

I put the. I put the goddamn dress for longer than you. You had.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, I honestly, I like put it over myself and then took it right off.

[Adam Friedland]

And your fingers were crossed. Yeah. No one noticed. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And. And I like muttered under my breath, like. Like, you know what I mean?

[Adam Friedland]

I was like, guys, how long of this dress?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah. Did they take photos of you? They didn't take photos of me. They took photos of you.

[Adam Friedland]

They said I had to take.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Awkward.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I forgot what the question was.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, no. There's a sink or swim moment. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So it was a sink or swim moment. The very first pay per view. Brett the Hitman Hart. Ever heard of him?

[Adam Friedland]

Of course. There you go.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

He was out there in the ring and he was introducing this very championship, the All Elite Wrestling Championship. And he was introing it with another gentleman named Hangman Adam Page. And because Hangman was up for a shot at the world title and I came out there and I cut a serious scathing promo on Hangman Adam Page and Bret Hart, who's a legend, and it was the first time that many people heard me speak. And it was pretty much game, set, match after that. Everyone was like, oh, fuck, yeah, that's the guy.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I've been the guy ever since.

[Adam Friedland]

It was like a risk for sure.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I mean, if that microphone, I think was in anybody else's hand, I think it would have been like sacrilege and it would have been an awkward shitty dog Dog.

[Adam Friedland]

Even if you did okay, if it was like a B minus, you can't

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

put an okay promo out on your ass because we are introducing the most important championship in all of professional wrestling.

[Adam Friedland]

What'd you say?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

If I were to walk out there and the bed, it would. The company would look.

[Adam Friedland]

Would you say, I'm glad your brother's dead?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I didn't bring up Owen.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know. You like bringing up dead relatives.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I didn't bring up Owen. I brought up the fact that he got jumped during his hall of Fame speech.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah, that. That was. I remember because the first time I went to a pay per view, I was. My friend Max in Vegas, and there was a. An event called Tour de America.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

How many Maxes are in your life, pal?

[Adam Friedland]

A lot. Yeah. Maxes are either, like, Jewish boys or dogs.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, it's the number one dog name in America.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it's a dog.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And it's the number one Jewish name.

[Adam Friedland]

And you got that dog in you?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I got that dog.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. Yeah. And I remember Yoko Zuna was fighting. Very fat, was fighting. Owen Hart, dead. Dead.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yokozuna dead.

[Adam Friedland]

And I think that there was another time that they fought where the crowd was chanting, usa, usa.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Even though Owen's from Canada and Yokozu is from Hawaii.

[Adam Friedland]

That was a. That was a pretty good one. Yeah. But I guess it's.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Geography and pro wrestling, as you've learned today, does not mix.

[Adam Friedland]

What is the toll that you've seen? Like, there is, like, a darker side. Like, you know, we all know about, like, the Chris Benoit thing. Like, sure, there are times where, like, this thing that you've dedicated your life to, which is. Which is you're at high risk. There are people that are, like, doing anything they can to like, maintain their, like, their bodies, their positions.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, of course.

[Adam Friedland]

And, you know, obviously, the. There's risk of, like, CTE and stuff like that.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Like, what.

[Adam Friedland]

How did. Like, how. Just. Just. Can you speak to that or, like, see, like, have you had firsthand, like, you've obviously had firsthand, like, kind of. You've witnessed this amongst men. Like, how. Like, how can you be sure to, like, protect yourself from, like, a similar kind of thing?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I'm the wrong guy to ask this, too. I have a very old school school mindset.

[Adam Friedland]

You're, like, healthy.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Well, yes, but also the times I have been hurt, I didn't. I, like, lied, and I just continued to wrestle.

[Adam Friedland]

But everyone does that. Exactly.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I think if you don't do it, you're a pussy.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Do you want to be the best or not. Yeah, Like, I'll give you an example. I was wrestling. Well, this is a good example, because I'm wrestling him. Coming up on April 12th, Dynasty, Vancouver, Canada. We have a pay per view and it's me versus Kenny Omega. This was a couple years ago, the first time I held this title, and my shoulder was. It was fried, bro. My AC joint was completely torn.

[Adam Friedland]

You were five minutes in, right, sir?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It was before the match. I had tore it before the match in a different match. I can't remember who it was against, and I wasn't gonna fucking tell anybody. So I wrestled Kenny Omega with a entirely torn rotator cuff and AC joint. And oddly enough, Kenny Omega was wrestling me. He was like, a week away from being on death's door because of diverticulitis. And we had, like, one of the greatest matches of all time, like, in the history of my company. And now we're about to wrestle again. We're both actually 100%, which is great, and I'm gonna beat the fucking shit out of him. But. And then there was another time. This was the worst one. I was wrestling this dude named Jay White at the Forum in la, and my shoulder's already completely fried. And I put him on a table because I had intended on hitting him with a elbow drop from the top rope all the way to the outside, through the floor, through the table, right? I put them on the table, the table breaks instantly. So I have two options. I can either let the world be like, well, that was fucking lame, and this sucks.

[Adam Friedland]

You're not gonna climb down, right?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And I fucking. Literally, I climbed up and I hit the elbow drop. Not even Mick Foley ever did this. From the tippy top rope all the way to the fucking floor.

[Adam Friedland]

Let's go.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No padding. My hip came out and we had my Grandma. We had 15 more minutes to go. And I continued to wrestle the match and proceeded to. Continue to wrestle, I think, for like, three more months. So I'm the wrong guy to ask that question to. Because you're a Jewish person.

[Adam Friedland]

This is. This must feel amazing.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's. There's no better feeling in the world. It's the grand prize.

[Adam Friedland]

Can I touch it?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Honestly, I'll allow it. Yeah, just be very careful.

[Adam Friedland]

I'll be careful. Whoa. It's heavy.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Two hands, two hands. Two. Very, very heavy. You're doing great. It looks natural.

[Adam Friedland]

Hey, hey. Fuck you. Everyone, yeah. Why don't you come up down in this ring? And.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You were born for this.

[Adam Friedland]

You met your wife in the company.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So I met my wife.

[Adam Friedland]

You said something really funny to her, too.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I. I did? Oh. I called her Tits McGee from Horror Island.

[Adam Friedland]

From Horror Island.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

The very first interview we ever did, and I think that turned around.

[Adam Friedland]

That's. That's how I met my fiance. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You called her Tits Mickey from Horror is.

[Adam Friedland]

No, she called me that.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

She called you that?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah. No. Wow. It's amazing.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So you met your wife? You met your wife interviewing?

[Adam Friedland]

No, I met my girlfriend randomly. Got it. Yeah, yeah, in life.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Oh, you. So you were just making a joke that didn't land?

[Adam Friedland]

No, no. I mean, but I've. You know, we both hate women, so I was just trying to connect over that. Okay, write that down, sir. Write it down on your list of. Your list of whatever. I thought we were men. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Thought we were men here.

[Adam Friedland]

I thought we were free and men.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But no, in all sincerity, I met her when I was 20 in Canada, and she interviewed me and we just always stayed in touch. And I always thought she was hot. And then one day we both found ourselves single and I, like, just slid into her DMs stud, and it worked.

[Adam Friedland]

Would you like, let's say, just like, you're married, you're a loyal married man. I'm sure that women are throwing themselves

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

at you because there's a goalie. Doesn't mean you, you know.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, so let's say, like, what I

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

would say to women around the world.

[Adam Friedland]

Let's say prime.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Give it a shot.

[Adam Friedland]

Prime Stephanie McMahon. Yeah, she. She. She's giving it to you?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Sure. I mean, why wouldn't you. I'm a handsome man.

[Adam Friedland]

What would you. What'd you do? I mean, that's probably perhaps 2002 prime Stephanie McMahon. Do you think the streets will ever forget 2002 prime Stephanie McMahon?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I don't think the streets are gonna forget about 2026. Stephanie McMahon. She just came out on TV this week and she looked very good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, but, like, look at this. I saw this. I sent this to my boy.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Are you just gooning in the corner right now with your legs cross?

[Adam Friedland]

Dude, do you have a fucking boner right now? I'm.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

My.

[Adam Friedland]

My balls are stuffed into my bum. Right? Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I hope Triple H is watching this and he's just, like, watching you goon over his wife.

[Adam Friedland]

The streets will never forget 2002 Stephanie McMahon. Do you think the streets will ever forget.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I know. Let me ask Adam Hopkins. So you were working there? Oh, no. Adam's going.

[Adam Friedland]

Adam, go.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Don't ask me about Stephanie McMahon.

[Adam Friedland]

Fine, fine, fine. Fine. With your money and your corner office and your glass window, brother. All right.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Adam Hopkins.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Won't talk about Stephanie McMahon. Horrible.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. Anyway, so, yeah, I just.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No, Triple H is a lucky man, dude.

[Adam Friedland]

Just explain to me a little bit of just, like, what the rush is and, like, just. Just what? Like, do you feel like, oh, doing this, Doing this?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Okay. I can't describe it, so. I have very bad attention deficit disorder. And one of the only times where I'm able to fully hyper vigilantly, like, focus on something is when my fucking music hits. And so it's like. It is like a drug for me, in a sense, because I'm fully locked in and fully present. Whereas a lot of professional wrestlers are dorks and losers, and they can't be fully present. And that's why when they're out there, they're doing all this cool shit, but they're like this.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You know, and it's just. I think a real weapon I have is being able to be fully present, which I. I think that's something Michael Jordan, like, talked about once. Like, when he's on the court, that's the only thing he's thinking about. There's nothing else going on in his life except what's happening in that moment.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

So that would be my answer. Just fully locked in.

[Adam Friedland]

When you're locked in. But what I'm saying is, when you're engaging with a crowd, like, how does it. How does that feel? Like, if you've just fucking. Like, when the bell goes.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You know, like. Yeah. And you. Where did you get the three? Yeah. Like, what is it?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Like, heroin?

[Adam Friedland]

It is.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Winning is like heroin.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You know?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

And that's why I do it. By any means necessary, I guess.

[Adam Friedland]

So, like, the last thing I kind of want to ask is, like, what's interesting, going back to that point about, like, how funny it is that. That John. It wasn't funny. I mean, it was, like, electric. When you watch John Cena say that they killed bin Laden on Raw, it is just like, the way it still gets you fired.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

You up.

[Adam Friedland]

Fired up.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Right.

[Adam Friedland]

There's something about it where it's just like. Where it's a man in jean shorts with big muscles, sure. But it's still, like, it's making you, like, vibrate.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Like, just like you could run through a wall.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

That's what I do to people.

[Adam Friedland]

There is something cool about how, like, wrestling kind of intersects with culture and kind of a time in America, for sure.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

It's a part of the Zeitgeist.

[Adam Friedland]

Where do you see it right now?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Right now, professional wrestling is hot. And I think it has a lot to do with what my company is doing right now. And I don't think that's an unfair thing to say. The Fuck Ice thing went everywhere. And, like, I've had a couple of promos that I've done go super, mega viral. And, you know, I have people walk up to me in the streets and be like, oh, my God, when you said this, and that date is like. And they like, like, hyper, Hyper, remember the specific time and the place and the when and the why. And, like, I think that's what makes all sports, not just pro wrestling, but all sports so special.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Because there are just like you. You remember that moment when you were knees down next to your bed with your hands together, like, bill, Bill, please. Oh, were you.

[Adam Friedland]

Were you doing the please, God, please, can Bill Goldberg win tomorrow?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

But, you know, you remember that, and it's a part of, like, your core memory. And I think that that's something that sports offers you, and that's something that AEW offers you, but mainly that's something that Maxwell Jacob Friedman offers you.

[Adam Friedland]

West. Go. Oh, and also, just real quick, I'd be reticent not to. To mention this. I like when you're the star of Happy Gilmore 2.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Happy Gilmore.

[Adam Friedland]

Give it up for him. Thank you.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Thank you.

[Adam Friedland]

And I, from what I understand, you've grown quite close with the Sandman.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I have.

[Adam Friedland]

You're in the Sandler verse.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

He's my dad. I'm in the Sandler verse. He's a great guy. We were talking about Passover yesterday. I love him. I do have my phone on me. Would you. You want me to reach out to him, or do you want me to reach out to him on your. You want me to talk to him about you?

[Adam Friedland]

Just call him right now.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Yeah, I.

[Adam Friedland]

Why don't you just call Adam Sandler right now?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

This is the only time during the interview I felt uncomfortable.

[Adam Friedland]

He's my hero. Just call him.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

I told. And I get that he means more to me than he means then, but I talked to your dad over the phone.

[Adam Friedland]

You talked to my dad? Let me talk to your dad.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

That's. That's fair.

[Adam Friedland]

It's only fair after.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

After we turn the cameras off. Maybe he's calling Adam Sandler because I

[Adam Friedland]

need it on the record because Adam Sandler is notoriously litigious. And if you notice, it's on the record.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Is he notoriously litigious? You're just making sure.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you ever hoop with him?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No. I'm very bad at basketball. It's the only sport I'm not good at.

[Adam Friedland]

All right. You want to play basketball after this?

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

No. Like genuinely no.

[Adam Friedland]

My best friend, everyone. The champ. Give it up for her.

[Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF)]

Violent Night 2 coming out in theaters as well.

[Adam Friedland]

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