Diamond Dallas Page and Jake Roberts see plenty of potential in MJF, so much that Maxwell Jacob Friedman became the latest topic on their podcast. On DDP Snake Pit, DDP and Jake break down the road to stardom for MJF and Dallas notes how it was Cody Rhodes who played a major part of getting Max in the All Elite mix.
“Personally, Cody told me about him,” Dallas said. “When they were putting that crew together that was, you know, going to be the future of AEW, there were certain guys that Cody put his name on,” Page recalled. “I remember him telling me about him, and I was just listening in the beginning, you know? ‘Cause, there’s certain guys — Jake has it, I have it, Cody has it, we see certain people with talent maybe even before they do.”
“There are just certain times you see someone like that, and Cody, that’s how he explained it. You know, ‘This kid, he’s got heat. He knows how to use it, he knows how to turn it on.’” DDP makes the comparison to seeing a talent like Goldberg back in the WCW days.
“Goldberg, I met Goldberg in a strip joint 5 years before he was ever ‘Goldberg’. Back when he was just Bill Goldberg playing for The Falcons, I introduced him to Eric Bischoff. I was having such a good time with him, drinking and having a good time, I was like, ‘This guy’s one of us. He needs to be one of us.’ There are just certain times you see someone like that, and Cody, that’s how he explained it. You know, ‘This kid, he’s got heat. He knows how to use it, he knows how to turn it on.’
You can hear both Dallas and Roberts’ full conversation of Max below:
Transcription credit should go to Robert Gunier of Wrestling INC.
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