Tony Khan: MJF Is A Student Of Acting Now And He’s Doing A Great Job With it

Tony Khan praises MJF’s acting work.

While MJF has slowly become one of AEW’s top stars over the years since it’s inception in 2019, he has also explored other avenues of entertainment, in particular he has broached out to acting, appearing in Happy Gilmore 2 earlier this year.

While speaking to Going Ringside in a new interview, Tony Khan was asked about Max, noting that he is a ‘huge’ wrestling star.

“Yeah, MJF’s a huge, huge wrestling star, and now he’s becoming a star of movies. He got a great role playing Happy Gilmore’s son in Happy Gilmore 2. Happy Gilmore 2 is the most watched movie in America this year, and MJF’s a big part of the movie. If you remember his four- his very rowdy four sons, the main lead boy is MJF. He’s the most prominent one and they’re supposed to be hard-hitting brawlers, and he’s definitely the tough guy of the four Happy Gilmore boys.”

Tony was then asked about if there is a buzz around backstage because of his acting roles recently.

“I mean, MJF’s not the most popular guy backstage. Most of the wrestlers don’t really like him very much. So I would say that among some of the villains of AEW, there is some camaraderie. A guy like maybe Don Callis or Okada, I think those guys are probably happy for MJF. But a lot of the fan favorites in AEW really don’t like MJF very much. So that being said, everybody is very impressed with what he’s doing. He is a really hardworking guy, and I am very impressed with MJF. I think he’s an incredible wrestling talent. When he focuses on the wrestling… I think MJF is one of the best, but he always takes shortcuts. He’s always trying to cheat his way to the top. I don’t even think he needs to, is the truth. He’s really gifted wrestler and a student of wrestling, a student of the history of wrestling and a student of technical wrestling. Also MJF is a student of acting now and he’s doing a great job with it. He’s filming another movie right now. For AEW, the executives, we are proud of what MJF is doing. even if he’s not the most popular guy with some of the fans or the other wrestlers. He’s a huge part of AEW, and he’s working really hard. He just had two incredible matches last weekend in two different countries. He had an incredible match Friday night at the CMLL anniversary show in Mexico City against Mistico. It’s one of the best matches I’ve ever seen. Then he went up to Toronto and had another classic, hardcore, hard-hitting fight and the tables and tacks match with Mark Briscoe at AEW All Out, which is one of the best shows we’ve ever done in AEW. So kudos to MJF big time.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Tony spoke about Toni Storm being an icon. You can read more about that here.

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