MJF opens up about his conversations with the great John Cena.
The AEW world champion and the Cenation leader were seen chatting at the premiere of the A24 film The Iron Claw, which MJF has a small role in. During an interview with the SI Media podcast the Salt of the Earth details what that conversation was about.
We’re two guys that are both massive fans of each other’s work. 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. 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.
He continues…
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.
Elsewhere in the interview, MJF spoke about why he doesn’t consider himself a locker room leader in AEW. You can read about that here.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)
