Leave it to MJF to wait until WrestleMania week to be active on social media again — and to use it to offer his two cents on the hottest angle in pro wrestling right now.
The former AEW World Champion hasn’t wrestled since dropping that title so Samoa Joe at Worlds End on Dec. 30, and he’s stayed off X since the day before that.
But on Wednesday, The Rock offered to buy a painting of one of his recent attacks on Cody Rhodes from MJF’s ex-fiancée, Naomi Rosenblum, and MJF wasn’t going to stay silent about that.
First you steal my glorious idea to lash Cody.
Now you try to cop art from my ex.
I’m a fan.
But please Leave me be, Dewey. https://t.co/b8XHLmDe2w
— Maxwell Jacob Friedman™️ (@The_MJF) April 3, 2024
The “steal my glorious idea” crack is a reference to the time four years ago in AEW when MJF made Rhodes take 10 lashes from his own belt to get a match against him.
And as viewers of “Young Rock” surely know, Dewey is Dwayne Johnson’s childhood nickname.
Because MJF has made his alleged 2024 free agency such a core part of his on-screen persona for so long, the comments section of his tweet are full of fans hoping it’s some kind of signal that he’s jumping to WWE. MJF has kept his contract status with AEW intentionally vague, though some industry insiders believe he’s already re-signed with the company and is simply laying low while he recuperates from several injuries that plagued him toward the end of 2023.
Regardless, he’s as shrewd a performer as there is in the pro wrestling business, which means he knows a return to social media targeting The Rock during the busiest wrestling week of the year is guaranteed to get people talking. Well played, MJF.
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