Predicting The 10 Best Wrestlers In The World Five Years From Now

3. MJF

WALTER Tyler Bate
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MJF seems incapable of running out of his blackly hilarious boy-popping promo material, if his Twitter feed is any indication.

The sociopathic motor-mouth creates catchphrases with every tweet, and knows which buttons to press to go viral: in burying those who play Dungeons & Dragons, he caused a backlash amongst the gaming community - with the exception of one female admirer, who asked him to put his "dragon" into her "dungeon. He awarded the fan points for "creativity", but insisted that he'd still rather "put the Maximum Ride in a pencil sharpener".

MJF has a genuine gift as a performer: he can captivate people and make them question the extent to which it even is a performance.

MJF hasn't yet earned raves for the in-ring aspect of his act, but that's because his genuine A+, 10/10, ***** promo game overshadows it. MJF hasn't yet shown - or hasn't yet been given the chance to show - that he can enter an exceptional upper card performance. But he has shown the expressive in-ring storytelling that projects his aura as a complete natural; his facials in the controversial AEW Double Or Nothing Casino Battle Royal were so funny and detestable that Jim Cornette was forced to praise it.

Equipped with a deadly-looking finish as creative and nasty as his insults, it's only a matter of time until the fastest rising star does precisely that.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!