Maxwell Jacob Friedman

Maxwell T. Friedman (born March 15, 1996), better known by his ring name Maxwell Jacob Friedman (abbreviated to MJF), is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the current AEW World Champion in his first reign, which is the longest reign in the title's history, and the current holder of the AEW Dynamite Diamond Ring, which he has won for five consecutive years. He also competes in AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he and Adam Cole are the current ROH World Tag Team Champions in their first reign as the tag team Better Than You Bay Bay. Friedman previously worked for Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he became a one-time MLW World Tag Team Champion and a one-time (and the inaugural) MLW World Middleweight Champion. He has also worked on the American independent circuit for promotions such as Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he became a one-time CZW World Heavyweight Champion and a two-time CZW Wired Champion. Early life Maxwell T. Friedman was born into a Jewish family in Plainview, New York, on March 15, 1996. He graduated in 2014 from Plainview – Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, where he was a member of the football team. He briefly attended Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. At the age of five, he appeared on an episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show that aired on September 10, 2001, singing "You Are My Sunshine" after his parents submitted a tape of him singing it in an operatic style while eating a pear. After a video of his performance resurfaced in 2019, he (in-character) denied the appearance before admitting it, stating that Rosie O'Donnell was trying to cling onto her fading star and that he "didn't have the nerve" to tell Britney Spears (who appeared on the same episode) that she "wasn't going to make it as a singer". During his interview with O'Donnell, when asked about what he wanted to be when he grew up, he stated that he would be an opera singer and a wrestler and that Goldberg and The Rock were his favorite wrestlers. Professional wrestling career