Welcome to the Bust Open podcast, along with Justin Labar.

I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we talk about AEW's world title pitcher with Maxwell Jacob Friedman,

who should be the top contenders for fresh matches in 2026.

Find out next right here on the Busted Open podcast.

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Justin, I want to talk to you about Maxwell Jacob Friedman, MJF.

I told you during the Super Bowl, I saw a number of his interviews,

and it wasn't the pull my finger, tell a joke.

He wasn't a guy that was insult the insult comic dog he actually

was going to ross tucker's podcast NFL podcast and really doing a great job of promoting

obviously himself because he's the champion but definitely putting over a w and talk about the

difference between a w and w so this time around i've been been very impressed by MJF on the interviews that he's done and

really insightful stuff as usual.

But I'm wondering about him as champion because we talk about shades of gray or trying to figure out,

you know, who MJF is.

I went back and watched Grand Slam Australia

and watched that matchup against Brody King the MJF had.

And you heard some people in Sydney like, come on, Max, let's go.

You heard some of the fans rooting for Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

Now, he will always, you know about the guy that will always insult us.

He will always insult us the fan. They'll gum at us, talk about us all that. But you cannot deny the in ring. And what I really liked is that that was a fresh match against Brody King. Textbook, 1975, 1985, you go in that matchup. He's a smaller guy against a big guy, takes the leg out of Brody King, it becomes the theme of the match. And it was good back and forth. Brody King tried to come off from underneath, try to be able to get some near falls. But because of the leg, that was the theme. MJF was able to get the heat seeker, one, two,

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