John Cena did the unthinkable on Saturday night when he turned heel and aligned himself with The Rock after winning the men’s Elimination Chamber match. The big heel turn sent shockwaves throughout the wrestling world and it seems that everyone has an opinion on how things played out.
MJF confirmed that he was watching Elimination Chamber live while speaking with Jimmy Traina on the SI Media podcast, and the former AEW World Champion praised the heel turn for being an awesome moment.
“John Cena is a good friend of mine. I get really annoyed when people in either company pretend that they don’t….let me put it this way. Yes, I was watching it. I was watching it live. It was an awesome moment and everybody should think it was an awesome moment because it was. Point blank. End of discussion.”
Over the last few years Maxwell Jacob Friedman has become one of the top stars in All Elite Wrestling, and he went on to share his thoughts on why it’s important to study as much wrestling as possible.
“If you are in the world of professional wrestling. If you are a top guy and you don’t watch or consume as much pro wrestling as you possibly can, can you call yourself a student of the game? Can you say you’re putting your best foot forward? Can you claim to be one of the best in the sport? In my opinion, no, you absolutely cannot. If you were to ask a WWE star, ‘Have you been watching AEW?’ and they say no, one of two things is happening. One, they are lying through their f****** teeth or two, they don’t care enough about this industry to study what’s going on in it. I was in my beautiful home, on Long Island, and I watched Elimination Chamber. I can assure you there will be plenty of WWE wrestlers who will be watching Revolution. If you’re a real athlete and you aren’t in the clue or in the know of what’s going on in your sport, I pity you. I think you do not take your job seriously. Yeah, [Cena turning heel] was awesome. It was f****** awesome. We’ll have plenty of cool moments on March 9.”
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