10 Best Wrestlers Of 2023 (So Far)
4. MJF
When All Elite Wrestling first launched, there was so much discussion about paradigm shifts in the industry that Jon Moxley was able to rename his finisher in accordance with them. But four years later, current AEW World Heavyweight Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman has proven the best example of the most significant one.
The paradigm has shifted significantly enough that a company's top heel can preserve his bump card, protect his character's integrity, and wrestle instant classics at an exclusive rate. Well, one company's top heel can, and Roman Reigns isn't on the level of The Devil in 2023.
To underserve the ‘Salt Of The Earth’ based on the few times he’s laced up the boots this year would be to misunderstand his value to AEW and the industry grossly. He recently boasted after Double Or Nothing 2023 that he'd worked the best ever four-way match following on from the best ever iron man match, and even though the joke is as old as the man himself, everybody had no choice but to reply with the Bobby Fish gif in response.
Peerless on the microphone, he sang pennies from heaven while drawing dollars from hell if the Four Pillars build hits anything close to those early 130k+ buyrate predictions and he's living up to his Roddy Piper perceptions by constantly changing the questions when opponents and pundits alike think they've got all the answers.