MJF

I could not laugh when my friend betrayed me.

I could not laugh when my left hip and my left shoulder were essentially jello pudding.

I could not laugh when people went from talking about me as being the guy to talking about me as being the problem.

And it took a lot of hard work, a lot of effort, and a lot of shining a mirror up to wrestling fans' faces and going, oh, shit.

No, he is everything he said he was.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you that those three months didn't suck a bag of donkey dicks.

They did, Chris.

But I feel what I've done now has more than made up for it.

What I've done for the whole span of my career has more than made up for it.

And I'm noticing now people are talking about me in the same reverence that they did before those three months.

I can't sit here and pretend I wasn't the fastest and youngest rising star probably in the history of the business.

If I did, I'd be full of shit.

My 20s put me on the map and made me a genuine household name, which a lot of the time, if you want to be a household name in pro wrestling,

People don't think of those three letters.

They think of WWE.

I've proven that's not the case by being in the most streamed movie of all time, by having Violent Night 2, where I have a huge roll-in that's coming out in December of this year, by doing Stranglehold, by being executive producer on Iron Claw.

I get stopped wherever I go.

You know who else does, whether I like it or not?

Hangman Adam Page, Swerve Strickland, Kenny Omega, Jon Moxley, Samoa Joe.

And now if we're just naming the guys that haven't ever worked for WWE, that have become household names, just based off of those three letters, you have me, Darby, Will Ospreay, Hangman again,