ORLANDO, Fla. — All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is coming to Orlando this week. The professional wrestling show will be at Additional Financial Arena on Wednesday evening.

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Maxwell Jacob Friedman remains AEW’s World Champion after last week’s match and win against Bandido

MFJ is in Orlando showing off his championship belt

He talks about how get got into wrestling and his rise in professional wrestling

Maxwell Jacob Friedman remains AEW’s World Champion after last week’s match and win against Bandido.

“Am I going to sit here and pretend that I didn’t know I was going to win it again? No. Of course, I knew I’m MJF. I’m going to keep winning this over and over and over again until I retire and enter the Hall of Fame,” Friedman said.

AEW started in 2019, and Friedman joined shortly after. He reflected on his time with the company and its growth.

“We’re still in its infancy, whether people realize that or not. We’re a baby. We’re a seven-year-old company that’s has pretty much monthly to bi-monthly 140,000 people buying our pay-per-views, which I think is why it’s à propos that I’m the world champion because I’ve done the same. I’ve only been in this industry for exactly 10 years,” he said.

Friedman is known for his theatrics and loves the spotlight, one of the reasons he’s been so successful.

“People like somebody that can talk some smack and back it up and I can do both. In my industry, I feel I’m genuinely the last of a dying breed. People are most certainly more concerned with what cool maneuver or insane dive can I do in my match to grab people’s attention. I don’t need to do all that. All I got to do is walk through the curtain, grab a microphone, and you’re at the edge of your seat like this. I have too much it. It exhausts me sometimes how much it I have,” he said.

Friedman remembers going to a pro wrestling event and though his family thought it might have a far-fetched goal, he always believed.

“Sean Michaels had won his world championship, and he had a pose and I was looking around and all these fans were going nuts and I just remember tugging on my dad’s arm and looking down at me and me looking up and telling him this is I’m supposed to do this. I just knew. And I was right. What was your dad’s reaction? My dad laughed,” he said.

AEW will be at Additional Financial Area on UCF’s campus Wednesday night for AEW Dynamite.