MJF reveals his shoot best friend.
Adam Cole and MJF are scheduled for a big night at AEW All In later this week. First, they will challenge for the Ring Of Honor World Tag Team Championships on Zero Hour, before main eventing the PPV with the AEW World title on the line.
During a Town Hall interview with Busted Open’s Dave LaGreca, MJF spoke about headlining All In this weekend, and noted that Adam Cole is his shoot best friend.
“It’s, shit, I’m tearing up. I always knew deep down, but it’s hard. Because in life, people will look at you, and they will make fun of you, and they will question you. They’ll pick on you and they’ll bully you, and they’ll shove you down, and they’ll make you question yourself. There were times where I did, but I’d snap out of it, but I’d always snap out of it, and I’d say, ‘You can do this. You can be the guy in wrestling.’ There’s so many reasons why I shouldn’t have been. I did it. All that’s left for me to do is to win in Wembley, and if I do, I genuinely become legendary. That’s not a line. That’s a real thing,”
“To be the biggest headliner in the history of the sport and to win, and the fact that I get to do it with somebody who means so much to me…I feel like people think like me and Adam Cole, we hang out at TV and then [go] ‘Okay, bye,’ and he goes home. I talk to this dude every day. He’s my brother. I’ve never met somebody more caring, more supportive, more warm. I’ve never really been able to trust anybody. Unfortunately, I have R.S.D. If anybody doesn’t know what it is, it’s Rejection Sensitive Disorder. Essentially, what’s gonna happen today, which is sad, is I’m going to leave this room, and just because this is the way my brain is wired, doesn’t matter how much therapy I have, I’m gonna leave this room, and I’m gonna go, ‘Well, they all hate me. Which is why it made it so easy for me to be a piece of shit for my entire career. It made it so hard for me to let my guard down. But Adam Cole taught me how to let my guard down. He’s made me a better person. That’s the god’s honest truth,”
“So the fact that I get to share this moment in history with somebody who is, people love to use the word ‘shoot,’ but somebody who’s like shoot my best friend, I love the dude, and it’s crazy. We have our ups and downs, just like any friends do. Sometimes, I want to hit him in the fucking face with this ring. Sometimes, he wants to superkick my jaw off. But at the end of the day, we always hug it out. I’m gonna beat you, Adam. But we’ll hug it out,”
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Cole and MJF’s partnership began with the AEW World Tag Team title eliminator tournament, and their friendship has gotten over in a big way with wrestling fans.
We will have to wait and see if Better Than You Baybay can survive the biggest event in AEW’s history.
Elsewhere in the interview, MJF commented on tribalism among wrestling fans.
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