MJF Speaks To Fightful: Adam Cole, Bret Hart, His Return, Adam Sandler More

Fightful Select spoke to MJF for his first interview in months at Wrestlecade.

MJF returned to AEW tonight, and has his eyes focused on the AEW Title. He made it clear during our interview that's what he's aiming for, and will become world champion again

When we asked MJF about Bret Hart recently saying "WHO?" about him, he told a story about how Bret liked his 2019 promo on him. He believes that Bret Hart is a great, effective troll, and blames Bill Goldberg for any of Bret Hart's memory loss issues. He said that Bret Hart knows how to get under people's skin, and says even though he and Sheamus don't see eye to eye, he has great punches.

He said that traveling as much as he did in the Spring and Summer of 2025 was important to him because the people he looked up to being traveling champions.

He said that he still speaks with Adam Sandler and facetimed with him the week prior to our interview. He calls Sandler the nicest guy in the world. He said Sandler is a wrestling fan, but that's not how he landed on Sandler's radar. He got an audition to play one of the evil golfers, and Sandler liked it, and he was given the opportunity to audition as Happy Gilmore's son. That went well and MJF landed the role. He also said Julie Bowen was like a mother to him on the set. He said he will wrestle while filming movies if producers are cool with it, and so far he's been able to quite a bit. He said that he does have the acing bug and is really enjoying i.

We spoke to MJF about the Adam Cole storyline, which he reminds people was a top draw in the company. He said "that pussy" Adam Cole broke his ankle like a complete dork and ruined the storyline. MJF was battling through hip and shoulder injuries, and says he was in a very dark place. He said that he should have been more angry at himself than the fans for turning on him and the angle itself. He knows that the same reasons people love him could be the same reasons people hate him.

He mentioned that Bloodline's WWE story may go down as the greatest long-term storyline.

He also said he got paid $35,000 for one indie match.

The interview is available for early access subscribers and Youtube members now, and will be public on Thursday. We ask that aggregators hold off until gaining the full context of his words.