Adam Blampied’s 10 Favourite Wrestlers (Updated)

10. MJF

You know what I like? Tricky little dickheads, who desperately think they’re the hero of their own story, despite being swaggering bellends constantly driving barriers being themselves and others as the result of their wavering ego. I can’t quite put my finger on why that is.

Genuinely though, there’s more to my love of MJF other than the easy joke of ‘lol it me’. Wrestling can be incredibly simplistic at times, implacable blue-eyed goodness for the sake of goodness and sneering, moustache-twirling villainy for the sake of villainy. This is fine, I like Vince McMahon evil chicken panto schtick as much as the next mark, but at the end of the day that kind of broad strokes character work is quite easy and what I love about MJF is that nothing he does feels easy.

He’s a marriage of a lot of wonderful things, old-school in his commitment to his character, but new-school in offering emotional psychological depth, fucking understandable, fucking RELATABLE reasons for doing the awful things he does. Plus he’s great in the ring and held his own in a promo war with CM Punk, that’s special talent.

• wrestlers
• Adam Blampied
• AEW
• wwe

Share this article with friends