MJF’s reign as World Champion in AEW lasted 330 days, making it the second longest reign in the title’s history, with the first being Kenny Omega’s reign, which lasted 346 days. It’s amazing, isn’t it? This record will certainly be broken.
Now, how many people knew about this? Very soon this record will be broken by the salt of the earth and it will not be a great moment in the fighter’s career. This is because in recent months, this provision has become irrelevant.
He was involved in this friendship angle with Adam Cole that was completely ridiculous, sounding like the plot of a bad teen show, and yet everyone thought it was great.
They could have done it at will and it would have been fun, but MJF wasn’t supposed to be the champion at that point. This caused AEW to forget about the coveted award, and his reign became mediocre.
In addition to the Iron Man match against Bryan Danielson and The main event From All In, this reign was nothing special, and he may have lost the title months ago.
This should have been the moment that cemented Satan as the face of AEW, and helped convince him to re-sign with them in January 2024, but it looks like we had the opposite effect.
MJF today should be viewed as the best AEW World Champion ever, but that’s not the case. If he had competed with the five fighters who appear on this list, in my opinion things could have been different.
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