MJF: “People Will Jump To The Other Place To Get Booked The Same And/Or Worse… I’m Not Going To Settle For Less Compensation So I Get To Have A WrestleMania Moment”

MJF speaks candidly.

Going into his AEW World Championship defense at AEW’s Revolution pay-per-view, MJF is making the media rounds, and one of his chats was with Denise Salcedo.

During the chat, MJF was asked about the importance of AEW properly compensating talent, and he went on to state that he would not take less money to have a WrestleMania moment.

“We’re where the best wrestle and that’s just a fact. Me, Swerve Strickland, Hangman Adam Page, Samoa Joe, Kenny Omega, Brody King, Bandido. I’ll just say it after I had to wrestle him last week, f*cking Kevin Knight. ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey’s really got something. Kyle Fletcher, (Kazuchika) Okada, (Konosuke) Takeshita, Jon Moxley. I can go on until I literally am out of oxygen. This is where the best wrestle. We’re real premier athletes. We’re not models, we’re not ex-football players or whatever. This is what we’ve wanted to do from the jump. Everyone whose name just came out of my mouth, the only thing they’ve ever wanted to be in their life is a professional wrestler and we have honed our craft to the best of our absolute abilities which has made us so incredible, which is precisely why we are getting compensated the way we should be compensated. God bless people that do it — people will jump to the other place to get booked the same and/or worse to be compensated for less. Why? I don’t know. If the answer is legacy, you know what I want my legacy to be? I want my legacy to be that my children are gonna be able to afford to go to any school they want. They’re gonna be able to afford to go to any restaurant they want, they’re gonna be able to go on vacations, they’re gonna be able to wear the nicest clothes, and that’s happening because I get compensated what my talent is worth. I’m not going to settle for less compensation so I get to have a WrestleMania moment. That doesn’t make sense to me. My legacy is my family, my legacy is my wife, my legacy is my children, my grandchildren, etcetera.”

MJF is defending the AEW World Title against Hangman Adam Page in a Texas Deathmatch. If Page loses, he can never challenge for the belt again.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit Denise Salcedo with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.