MJF The Best Heel Today
Beg to differ?
When AEW started as a full-time brand, MJW wasn’t a household name. He was merely just another guy in the roster, or another heel that was lacing up his boots and looking for the chance to breakthrough. Stars like The Young Bucks, Cody Rhode, even Joey Janela were overshadowing MJF.
That was until MJF aligned himself with Cody Rhodes. At Full Gear in 2019 MJF decided to turn on Cody. That same year we saw a star-making feud between the two that really propelled MJF to newer heights as THE bad guy.
The best part was that once MJF turned heel, he never turned back. Usually in wrestling you become heel for a monent and then you turn babyface. Not MJF, he’s meant to be a heel forever. He’s always explaining his motives and never fails to speak his mind, even if it meant going off-script.
It’s hard to imagine MJF going babyface.
Hence the question, even if he wanted to turn face and be good, would it even work? Would he be able to even get over as a babyface? Most, if not all of his fan just won’t let it happen maybe.
He loves to call the crowd a bunch of hicks, nobodies, he shames their bodies, he really goes all in to make sure you hate him. When he speaks down on you, you feel it in your core. It feels like that high school bully is picking on you all the time.
He never breaks character
When he goes a signing he’s in full character. He will call you out, make you feel like shit. Who will ever forget when he stuck out the middle-finger to a little kid, he does it with the same in-ring attitude we know and love.
When he does his promos, it’s an all out war. He will bring up real-life situations you’ve been in. He will make remarks on the tragedies of others and compare it to your life. For example, when he told Cody he was going to put him in a wheelchair like Lex Lugar. He made light of Bret Hart getting attacked by a fan.
Everything feels personal when he talks to his opponents.
He begged for Tony Khan to fire him on live T.V. He cursed to the camera before his microphone was turned off. This has left him as the one true heel in wrestling today.
It looks like he will never take back anything he’s done or said. He’ll spit in your if you try him like that.
Naturally, it’s the cool thing to like the bad guy in wrestling. They’re always more interesting than the good guy. There’s some sort of connection there. They speak for you, every single time you’re angry, it’s like they’re angry for you and let it out all. You live through them.
He’s just 26 and he’s reached a level that’s almost unheard of. He still has many, many years to go. God knows how far he’s gonna push the boundaries.
