Making MJF (Maxwell Jacob Friedman) // A Real Documentary 

Hi, big fan of the your channel I have a question for u do u think MJF is possessed I got little bit something about MJF

@@TeresaStJohn-qe1vu yes he's possessed by wrestling satan.

"He's playing the dude, playing the dude disguised as the other dude" - tropic thunder

I have heard he is just an asshole behind the scenes too. That’s why he is so good at the character, because of that.

@@LaunchedKnot777 nah, the rest are just playing along. Thats a huge part of mjf’s charm. That not only is he playing charcter on tv 24/7, but also the rest of the wrestlers and everyone he knows tries to keep mjf alive.

@@doctorlaughtor9884 Yeah, his kayfabe is so good, it creates genuine interest and intrigue, lol.

He’s better than you and you know it lol Dude is gonna be huge heel star

Taker lost that Kayfabe tbh

Dare you say he has taken the throne of kayfabe royalty from Rosemary?

He has been in a few Grim’s Toy Show videoes where he didn’t act like this.

He was also on a late night talk show as a kid singing Johnny Cash's song You Are My Sunshine

I know undertaker was on a mega church channel. All I know is that he is Christian since meeting Michelle.

Already his biggest fan!

BEST ANSWER....YES!

Characterception

lol

#betterthanyou

and he beat him earlier tonight.

That also shows the kind of person CM Punk is too, to take a raising star like MJF and run a program with him to put him over. The veteran star sharing his star power with the raising star.

He is Savage in person

@@Britton_Thompson lol no

Britton Thompson What new stars has Vince Created?

@@Britton_Thompson I can see him fit well into Nwa power

Glock Holliday that’s actually him not a character

For freakin real! Fuckin loved the way they told this story! They blurred the lines a little, let him get his “lost” heat back, while in actuality revealing he’s a pretty cool guy in real life.

I'm tellin you man....Salt of the Earth. 😂

500th liker good take

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I can imagine that off camera they must have all had a good laugh over this. Its genius 👏

It’d be cool to see him vs. Jericho. Heel vs. Heel.

He just signed with NXT

@@xantastic6301 No he's signed with AEW

@@xantastic6301 kinda hard when he's already under contract to both AEW and MLW.

@@The_Real_DCT add WWE/NXT TO THAT LIST... he just announced it on his Myspace. He said he's gonna show Mr. Moxley how it's done in the big leagues

Absolutely, Kenny's work is fantastic on this one!

what a acciden? tell me pls.

Lol same

@@kineticwrestling7520 tell his story in short.i can't watch whole video

I wish this was a character....

@@kenjohnson1028 so he always an asshole?

Him & Orange Cassidy

@@kenjohnson1028 L-I-A-R

This isn't a character max t. Friedman is an asshole on and off camera

Hearing him tell Stone Cold the same story about how he came up is terrifying to me as a psychology major. Lol if I didn't know about Kayfabe and I saw this video first then heard him tell Austin the same fake story I would've thought he was a sociopath lol

I low-key still think he's a sociopath who's really good at wrestling and we just think he's playing a character lol

@@wrestleedits3694 He seems like a really nice guy out of character I doubt. He's just REALLY good at acting and it's amazing.

@@wrestleedits3694 Nothing wrong with it if he is. People would be surprised how many folks out there are sociopaths or psychopaths.

@@trygvesmor nothing wrong with being a sociopath or a psychopath?! hahaha MJF is awesome either way.

Agree, Can't hate him.

I will boo him out of respect.

The reason he is so good as a character is because he actually STUDIED wrestlers who know how wrestling is supposed to go. Ellict an emotional response on a CONSISTENT basis, keeping up kayfabe. He's like Randy Orton, MJF is a NATURAL Heel.

I love the psychology aspect of the character, this is a good reprensentation of a narcissist personal disorder... he gets this much hate because these are most toxic person you can have around... it’s called the second hand smoke of emotions... that’s why you hate him more and more weeks go by and it’s frustrating to see them succeed and lie about everything but still everything goes their way.... inside these persons have so much issues with their childhood, they don’t know how to deal with emotions so the rage or avoid! Wow just wow GREAT character development i mean this is genius! Ric Flair was the best reference towards the persona but there is not the fake life assumption that MJF is all about!

I watched a Bret Hart documentary years ago, and triple H was on there, and triple H said, "If I'm not booed, I'm not doing my job properly." Is what MJF is doing brilliantly, it would be great if MJF did fairly beat John Moxley for the AEW world championship belt.

What about 27:22

@@dtggayman Listen to what he says, he says it’s a character then just after goes right back into character talking about how great he is then does the fake crying and gives the bully story. All of this was still in character!

​@@werewolflover8636 He's just too good for nowadays wrestling.

His character work is tremendous. Dare I say, he's even more creative than Roddy Piper was in his early days.

Consistency.

Same! Absolute brilliance

Makes character more try dimensional !

Bro this documentary makes more and sense every time you watch it

Mannnn, same

Go to work everyday to get worked? XD

Well, when you think about it, it's true.

Reese Nobles almost everyone is acting

Reese Nobles Like The Truman Show

It honestly truly is

I grew up on 80s wrestling. This dude is bringing kayfabe back.

@@MyJbryant , so true. He is going to be great in AEW

@@randyhawthorne7730 Yep. You can tell he takes his job seriously..

I like the kayfabe

So who does MJF remind you of?

Yup

Go back to the 50s, 60s, 70s and that was regular practice

Yup

Yepp

yep

ye

"Mmmm hmmm"

It's not what some might call.. "HARD!" AND "I WAS JUST LIKE.... I DIDN'T FEEL ANYTHING!!" . . "WE LUV U SOO MUCH! UR AMAZING!!"

the family lambo, lol

frozendilemma Well said, this guy is what wrestling needs, someone that keeps his character everywhere and makes him look legit, really appreciate wrestlers like him

You obviously haven't seen the iron sheik

Nice burner account, Max.

9 months later, 100% true.

Sync Nova 1 year later very very true

@@futureufcchampion9293 6 months after you made this comment It's even more true now

@@americanzero2114 facts

It all started because they won't let him watch WrestleMania..🤣🤣

This guy just gets it. It's amazing to watch

@@dominicr6843Moral of the story parents! Let your kids watch a little WrestleMania LOL

Nothin gets past you 😅

WHAT YOU MEAN YOU PEOPLE 😂😂😂😂

And that's my dude

Duuuuuuddddeeeee...

@@scottmcminn851 what do YOU mean "you people"?

@@ClandestineSnowman watch tropic thunder you will understand the joke lol

I still don’t know if this was a work or he is so damn committed to his character 🤷‍♂️ I love it 😆

Nah this is a work

Lmao

U might be the best what u do? Lol

Well done lol

FN Brilliance...

Bud like I told you the story we don't need to go there! Okay!!!

Lol

The whole thing was scripted

@@jonathanpereira5187 shutup

@@jonathanpereira5187 you assume that but you weren't there

Kevin..

Well it’s two kind of horror subgenres. The undertaker or fiend is physical horror, whereas this is psychological horror.

Even after this documentary, I still don't understand who he is, that's fucked up

@@killerytbfr5899 I'm actually more confused lol

@@killerytbfr5899 maybe he's one of the lizard people. Or maybe the antichrist?

Yep hahaha! Cuz you don't really know if he's a really nice guy in real life or a f****** douchebag in real life.

same i fucking criedd lmfaooo

Oookay let's keep it movin hahah

Timeline pls

@@nico-lasvegas2538 15:45

@@bsanjiban Thanks!

Watch MLW that's where he came from and still wrestles there

Jerry 85g a lot of people are saying that i knew him already from the elite and loved him there

manband20 lmfao that was so evil

Officer Dan! 😂

I didn't know anyone from aew

He's AEWing now

That clearly was not Stokely Hathaway

enhancedakuma1 you mean Not Stokely cameo? :p

I'm sure the Rock might have been in that love triangle.

@@skum73 and miz was his uncle

@@rahuljaganath3050 Definitely Miz!

Matt Strykers semen is mixed up in there somewhere too

@@MrPantera123456 Holy Cow! This guys got more WWE Superstars in him than Paige has=)

I think that after everything I see him do. Genius in it is that sometimes it takes a few watched to unpack it all.

Nah, I think he works at Hub's Gyros

I likuh duh russling.

Being humble*

Da fuq you sayin?

They had that story going for a while on BTE with him pretending to be a friendly normal guy around Cody as a means to an end, but couldn’t hold back from exposing his true self, an antisocial narcissist, to his fellow wrestlers when Cody wasn’t in the room. I wish AEW had told the story better by fleshing it out on their programming and waiting a little longer before the turn on Cody, because most of their audience don’t watch BTE and the “salt of the earth” gimmick could’ve been milked for so many classic moments and made the turn so much more impactful. A real historic coronation of the most compelling heel in modern wrestling. Still a great moment, just feels like such a waste. I also don’t understand why the MJF vs Cody feud was just suddenly dropped and hasn’t been mentioned or acknowledged at all since like March?

Both

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He actually had a room upstairs

He was 20 lol

@@TidusMuzik he's 25 lol

@@mehshutup3041 he’s 25 now, he was 21 when this was filmed.

I got the impression that he was playing MJF trying to relate, but was actually breaking kayfabe and giving us "some" truths disguised in kayfabe. By the end of it I had no clue if it was all a mocumentary or just artfully done to show us the man behind the character. Either way it's the best one out there.

I'd imagine that part of being good at keeping kayfabe kind of requires you to be at least somewhat skilled at lying unless your gimmick is literally just how you are irl but in ring gear.

Robbie Romero I still feel like it was a mocumenatary but not entirely sure.

Two Sides Of the Coin what’s kayfabe? 🤔

@@TheStrayRM In professional wrestling, kayfabe /ˈkeɪfeɪb/ is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or predetermined nature of any kind. Hopefully this helps!

JohnnyV Val LMFAOOO dude. I was being sarcastic. Kayfabe doesn’t exist in the realm of Kayfabe. So me staying in Kayfabe, I pretended like I have no clue what it is. But now I broke it so thanks.

@@TheStrayRM that's what I get for doing 3 things at once! I'm on the Utube, making food, thinking about getting laid, chucking laundry in the machines, then Google Kayfabe! Trying to make sure it's a "sherrod, man sopa opera, stage shit" Sorry I missed the sarcasm. It's hard to tell when reading text.

@@JohnnyV_Val lol

This is why aew is such a fire to those who stopped watching wrestling for years.. Now I'm excited for it again.. Cause of talent like this.. 🤘

Yes he is.

Yes. You should write a letter to Cody. Or do that thing the kids tweet about. You are lucky. Now you have a purpose in life. Spread the gospel.

Hbk broke his back and cried like a bitch. Then we found out he was just addicted to pain killers and sat home getting paid. He didn't want to lose title so he handed it in. He lost his legacy.

@@geniusoutlaws1159 yes hbk was bit of a prima Donna. But he was at one time maybe the best all around performer in the buisness. As a person he was a scumbag but as a performer he made it look effortless. That said I always preferred Bret to shawn.

Shawn Michaels was the best ring worker in WWE and was the beginning of the attitude era w DX.. Then turned heel and put over Austin for his first WWE Title. A HOF career!!! But also was prima donna. Then he came back as a new guy who was a Christian man with a high moral code and had a 2nd HOF career. Retired by Austin then retired Flair just to be retired by Undertaker. Legendary career much much much better on a wrestling basis then say Tully or even The Rock. Rocks career & his fame have overlapped way to much for this revisionist history. The Rock was in WWE as a full timer for 8.5 years and nearly 3.5 year as a mid-card act that fans chanted die Rocky die. He lost the final payoff match for IC Title for a much more fan loved (at the time) HHH. When he finally won the title and actually maybe his first three titles for against mankind. Lost to Lesnar in Brocks first big fued and after 2 WM losses to Austin finally beat him at 19 Stone Cold last match just for Hollywood Rock to lose to a debuting Goldberg. Then we got part time Rock who reform Rock N Sock and lost at WM deservedly vs Evolution. Then first Cena match great 2nd was terrible bc it was 50-50 booking and undeservedly beat Punk at RR ala Goldberg Kevin Owens. Funny how those 2 exact situations are viewed differently. Now Rock was amazing and had wins over everyone and Hogan in Toronto was great its just remembered a lil diff than reality would claim.

@ Corny Jim has said for years that Kayfabe was important, and MJF is proof of that. I have more respect for MJF than anyone else in wrestling. His CVV interview, his scrum interviews, etc. The value of Kayfabe can't be underestimated.

MJF is like a modern day Roddy Piper, but with the chops of Ric Flair and the charisma of The Rock. The perfect mix of old and new school. The greatest talent to come along in a long time. Him and Jericho together in AEW is downright scary.

"if he'd been in mid-south, he would've died"

Jim Cornette knows the real deal when he sees it

@@michaelfarrow5817 absolutely. Everyone kept kayfabe and the fans TOTALLY bought into the gimmicks because the talent took their jobs SERIOUSLY plus ring psychology and properly sold angles were also Paramount to

kyle damron fuck impact and wwe his talent would go to waste if he ended up there I'd love to see him in roh or njpw where his talent would be appreciated

Big MJF fan here too; agree the dude is such a talent although I do agree he'd be wasted in WWE

Wawrestlenk yeah man at this point i don't wish anyone on the indies who has alot of talent to end up in wwe because they'll just be another meal for roman and then stuck either in the mid card or jobber list

leonid Ivanov III Spot on there bro

Yeah but roh has waste talent at times but a lot of people ain't going to say it

stacy mirba Kate you serious? It’s clearly a mockumentary

@@john82425 Above your head and behind you.

@@stacymirba1433 😂🤣😂🤣

stacy mirba Jesus Christ 😂😂😂😂

stacy mirba Well played 😅

Agreed💯

Hahahahahahahahahahah

Lmao awesome

Absolutely Awesome!🤣🤣

No. No, it didn’t. Don’t be stupid. The booking started that feud. The picture was a tool in the story.

So was CM Punk.

@@andrewsparkes8829 I'm dead. Too funny.

Be jealous he's better than you and you know it

How about punk vs mjf

Larry Smoke me a kipper!

Absolutely, that goes without saying, if hes not world champion in the next two years something is wrong... hell he probably will end up boning Brandie Rhodes 😂

I even hear Matt go back to his regular speaking voice when does interviews. He doesn’t understand Kayfade. MJF understands it.

Music Man Right now he’s all four combined apparently. When he was broken he did interviews and even a full podcast in character

@@screamrad218 Hardy does things in a different way. Matt Hardy looks at his aspect as a performance that is more in line with visual style and a dramatic medium bringing in magic and suspension of disbelief. MJF just LIVES his gimmick and doesn't break because it's a far more realistic person you see out there and you hate. We know MJFs out there in the real world... there are no Broken Matt's rolling around.

That probably happens

What I would do is have him take on a few of the top babyfaces in the company and have him lose more than he wins. Then, after a couple of months of frustration just have him snap and go from douchebag to stone cold psychopath. And that's your next breakout heel megastar.

They already do on "Being the Elite"

bagser1 that is genius!

This pretty much happened, good call man.

on god i rewinded right there like ni he didnt say "burb" 😂😂😂😂

With Del Rio face

Mark don’t you mean scarf

Lol that too

Haha the miz needs to escape wwe and grow before it's to late