History Wrestling / MJF

Maxwell Tyler Friedman, better known by his ring name Maxwell ''Jacob'' Friedman (often abbreviated to MJF) (born on March 15, 1996), is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling where he's the reigning 1x AEW World Champion and Wrestling/{R|ingOfHonor}}OH Tag Team champion with Wrestling/AdamCole.

Maxwell Tyler Friedman, better known by his ring name Maxwell ''Jacob'' Friedman (often abbreviated to MJF) (born on March 15, 1996), is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling where he's the reigning AEW World Champion.

** Attempts to become this to Wrestling/AdamCole after being paired together as part of the Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament. Adam is well aware that MJF isn't being genuine, but plays along due to MJF being easier to deal with that way. As the tournament progressed however, the friendship seemed to grow genuine on both ends.

* HeelFaceTurn: Slowly shown signs of pulling one off as a result of bonding with Wrestling/AdamCole. The turn was eventually completed after the two lost against [[Wrestling/TheRevival FTR]], MJF rejecting his initial instict to strike Adam from behind with his belt, and later praising FTR for the match and burying the hatchet with them.

* WouldHurtAChild: The [[Wrestling/LukeHarper Brodie Lee]] tribute show revealed that he doesn't even consider an 8-year old child who recently lost his father as off-limits for his mockery. Brodie Lee Jr. got his revenge by whacking him with a kendo stick.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/CodyRhodes, Wrestling/JonMoxley, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, Wrestling/CMPunk, Wrestling/{{Wardlow}}, Wrestling/BryanDanielson

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/CodyRhodes, Wrestling/JonMoxley, Wrestling/ChrisJericho, Wrestling/CMPunk, Wardlow, Wrestling/BryanDanielson

* ArchEnemy: To Wrestling/CMPunk. To say MJF hates Punk would be a ''vast'' understatement, and their feud effectively established MJF as one of Punk's greatest enemies, equal to Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/JeffHardy, the two greatest rivals of Punk's career.

** When he crossed paths with AEW's Japanese wrestler, Konosuke Takeshita of [[Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam DDT]] fame, he crammed pretty much every offensive Japanese stereotype imaginable, on top of calling him "Take-a-shit-a".[[note]]The latter also doubles as a ShoutOut, as "Take-a-shit-a" happens to be the derogatory nickname Wrestling/JimCornette (himself not one to shy away from being politically incorrect) gave Takeshita on his reviews of AEW shows.[[/note]]
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Wrestling/ChrisJericho's attempt to insult him by saying that apparently MJF's parents got hot and heavy watching Jericho wrestling [[Characters/WCWInvasion Juventud Guerrera]] in WCW, [[WhileYouWereInDiapers and nine months later MJF was born]], didn't work as intended. MJF first got angry, but then confusedly asked:
-->'''MJF:''' Who the hell is Juvi?\\
'''Jericho:''' …Website/{{Google}} it.
** And apparently he did, because Juvi would be one of MJF's Five Labors for Jericho.

* {{Heel}}: One of the most notorious bad guys of wrestling in recent history.

[[caption-width-right:350:Better than you.]]

* ReformedButNotTamed: While he became a nicer person as a result of Adam Cole's influence, he remains as egotistical and prone to making offensive comments as ever.

* VillainousFriendship: Parodied and subverted with Sammy Guevara during the Four Pillars Tournament. After telling Sammy that he'll help him cheat his way through the tournament in exchange for Sammy throwing the fight in Double or Nothing 2023, the two constantly act as if they're best friends with each other. However, it's made apparent how the friendship isn't genuine. Eventually during their tag-team match against Darby Allin and "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry, the friendship falls apart completely due to MJF refusing to allow Sammy to take the pin, resulting in Sammy attacking MJF and ending the partnership.

** Attempts to become this to Wrestling/AdamCole after being paired together as part of the Blind Eliminator Tag Team Tournament. Adam is well aware that MJF isn't being genuine, but plays along due to MJF being easier to deal with that way.

** Most significantly and invoked by Wrestling/CMPunk himself, he's been accused of being a "[[PoorMansSubstitute less famous]] [[Wrestling/TheMiz Miz]]".

* HeroKiller: Whether they are veterans or underdogs, Max went through all of them. He has defeated the likes of Cody Rhodes, Chris Jericho, "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry, Darby Allin and Ricky Starks and in Lord Regal's final appearance in the company, Max punched him in the head using Regal's brass knuckles. Most notably, he ended CM Punk's undefeated streak in AEW and defeated Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship at ''Full Gear'' 2022 (in addition to being one of the few people who defeated Moxley in AEW).

* HistoryRepeats: MJF defeated Darby Allin at ''Full Gear 2021'' by using his Dynamite Diamond Ring to punch Allin, then using a headlock takeover to pin him. In ''Double or Nothing 2023'', MJF did something similar, only this time using the AEW World Championship belt to hit Allin before using the same move to pin him.

* AntiVillain: Has shades of both the [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie]] (grew up a bullied and disabled teen without any friends, whose love for Wrestling was the only thing that kept him together) and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-intentioned]] (wants to turn AEW into the world's largest wrestling company and topple the WWE, but with [[ItsAllAboutMe him at the top]]) variety.

* EvilerThanThou: Friedman uses Punk's old "I'm the devil" speech against him, both to drop Punk's gueard in order to sucker punch him as well as to prove to Punk that he is more evil than Punk. While Punk did a lot of bad things when he was a heel, especially during his time in the WWE [[note]]Bringing up Jeff Hardy's drug problems, mocking Jerry Lawler's heart attack and disrespecting the then-recently deceased Paul Bearer in 2013[[/note]], Punk at least spent as much time as a face as well as a heel and can be AffablyEvil at times while Friedman has been a heel since day one of his wrestling career and has no respect to anyone for himself. Furthermore, Friedman has betrayed ally after ally ever since he first set foot on AEW, something Punk himself rarely did.