Maxwell Jacob Friedman recently appeared as a guest on the SI Media Podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the appearance, the AEW World Champion spoke about meeting John Cena at a red carpet event for "The Iron Claw" film on The Von Erich Family, which MJF was a producer for.
"We’re two guys that are both massive fans of each other’s work," he said. "He loves what I’m doing in AEW, I obviously love everything that he’s done in professional wrestling as a whole. He’s easily a first-ballot Hall of Famer and I literally am a Hall of Famer, but I believe that I am also soon to be a first-ballot professional wrestling hall of famer as well."
Friedman continued, "We exchanged pleasantries and we talked and discussed about how we’re fans of each other’s work. I told him straight-up, I find him to be an absolute inspiration, what he’s been able to do with Make-A-Wish, with all these kids, and also what he’s been able to do completely transcend outside of the professional wrestling sport and landscape is something that I’ve begun to do as well. I’m really proud of that, and I don’t think I’d be able to do that without following the footsteps of these major giants of professional wrestling history, like him, like Batista, like The Rock. If not for these guys, they wouldn’t take me seriously as an actor."
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
