MJF calls out fans that say he doesn’t wrestle enough: “You take a bump, p*ssy – I’m in a sh*t ton of f*cking pain”
While speaking to the Shut Up and Wrestle podcast with Brian R. Solomon, AEW world champion MJF commented on the physical toll of being a wrestler…
“I always laugh, especially earlier on in my AEW career when fans were like, ‘Why isn’t MJF wrestling more?’ F*ck you. You take a bump, p*ssy. It hurts. Do you have any idea how much it hurts?
Everything we do in there hurts. While you’re interviewing me right now, my knee is f*cked. You know what I mean? It’s swollen to sh*t. I’m in a sh*t ton of f*cking pain.
But it’s on me because I’m the f*cking top guy, and people are leaning on me to make sure that we’re doing well. So I’ve got to lace my boots up and get in that goddamn ring.
Obviously, a doctor is never going to let me go in there unless structurally I’m okay. So don’t think I’m burying the AEW medical team. I’m in a lot of pain, there’s swelling, but structurally I’m good.
The bottom line is this: I know everyone listening to me on this podcast respects what I do and understands what I do. There is this new wrestling fandom of younger kids that think this is all funsies, and they don’t understand how much we’re putting on the line physically every time we go through the curtain. It takes a toll.
Dude, I’m 30. I’m in pain, and I’m only 30. I can’t imagine what I’m going to feel like when I’m 40 or 50.
But I’m also not asking for sympathy either. I’m not a b*tch. I fully understand I signed up for this sh*t. This was my decision and my dream to chase.
However, I just wish wrestling fans understood more that every time we go out there, it’s painful. It’s not like it only hurts when we take a bump on the goddamn apron. It hurts every time we take a bump.
No matter what, it hurts.”