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And not to mention when he "takes care of the kayfabe". I mean, watching MJF doing the same promo every Wednesday gets boring when you see that the whole show is about developing stories and continuing them organically, whether they are good or not. I consider the conception of MJF wrong.
And for proof of this, his promo battle with Adam Cole. I'll be honest, when Cole came out I thought this was going to be a "humiliation" of Maxwell, but then I remembered who exactly Adam Cole is, and I think it happened to all of us. When Cole took the mic he managed to expose MJF.
Right from the start he took MJF's resources and used them to highlight how false his narrative was, and how disingenuous it could sound because of the "cheap pop". The references Maxwell made were forgotten, because Cole took it upon himself to humiliate him with nothing but the truth.
And this is what makes me say that MJF holds wrestling back. The concept of honesty versus false narrative and irrelevant speeches. Cole treated MJF as just that. Without insulting him or mentioning an aspect of his past, Cole managed to minimize MJF.
This promo reminded me of when Eddie Kingston confronted CM Punk, and how Kingston humiliated the latter on the microphone with what we all already knew. I think of these two promos as messages to the fans. Honesty is the way of evolution.
It is proof that the "worked shoot" should be buried in the 90's, and should seek to explore the three-dimensionality of the characters and how they are presented on camera. The sad thing about this is that the one time MJF managed to do the latter, it produced a quality rivalry.
I don't think Punk would have us believe that Max was good at his job. MJF is one of the top young talents in the world, but it's up to him if he wants to be remembered as a great heel, or as an edgy guy who didn't know how to evolve his act and got stuck.
