The Devil gives The One Winged Angel his due.
On the October 28 edition of AEW Collision, the show was main-evented by a battle for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship between Kenny Omega and champion MJF.
The match was a back-and-forth affair as Omega attempted to prevent Max from being able to break his record for being the longest-reigning AEW World Champion in the company's history.
In the end, MJF would pull out the victory over his adversary, landing a Panama Sunrise and a Heatseeker in the closing stages in order to pin 'The Best Bout Machine'.
In a digital exclusive, AEW cameras stayed with MJF and Omega after Collision went off the air, and MJF made a speech giving credit to Kenny Omega, along with others, as being the reason he exists as AEW World's Champion.
"I am wrestling way more than I ever thought I fucking would. Let me tell you something. This shit is exhausting," Max began. "I want to tell a very quick story and it's about the man across the ring. For me, I was 19 years old at an independent wrestling promotion. It was literally the first wrestling promotion that I went to outside of my training school, Create-A-Pro Wrestling Academy. It was called Five Borough Wrestling. I had a match on the opening of the show and guys that I aspired to reach the heights of in this sport were guys like Bryan Danielson, guys like Samoa Joe, who's kind of an asshole, and most certainly guys like Kenny fucking Omega."
Continuing on, Max shared a story about Kenny Omega allowing him to pick his brain, and praised Kenny, The Young Bucks, Tony Khan, and Cody Rhodes for being the visionaries who started AEW.
"Now that night that night you had no reason to stop and watch my match. I was a pisspot, but you watched my match. You pulled me to the side and you let me pick your brain that night and you might not remember that, but I sure as hell do," Max continued. "Without Kenny Omega, without The Bucks, without Cody Rhodes, and without Tony Khan, who might be a fucking mark, but he's a visionary, All Elite Wrestling does not exist. Therefore, your World Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman does not exist now. I'll be honest. I still don't know what I'm gonna do for the bidding war of 2024, but what I do know is that when I get the opportunity to wrestle 'The Best Bout Machine' Kenny Omega, it tends to sway my opinions a little bit. So now I am going to let Kenny Omega do what he does best. I am going to let him do a goodbye the only way he knows how."
Max defended his title on Saturday, but he did not have his actual physical title belt on hand, as Jay White is still in possession of it.
However, on Wednesday night's AEW Dynamite, MJF will pick three partners to take on Bullet Club Gold and if his team can pull out the victory, White has assured Max he will give him back his title.
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