{"id":105665,"date":"2021-12-10T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=105665"},"modified":"2021-12-09T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T01:04:18","slug":"mjf-beat-cm-punk-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/10\/mjf-beat-cm-punk-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Why MJF Should Be the First Person to Defeat CM Punk in AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>MJF<\/strong> should undoubtedly be the first person in <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> to defeat <strong>CM Punk<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/20\/cm-punk-debut-aew-rampage-chicago\/\" target=\"_self\">arriving on the All Elite scene in August<\/a>, Punk has clocked in a fair amount of matches. Some of those bouts, such as the one with <strong>Eddie Kingston<\/strong> at <strong><em>Full Gear<\/em><\/strong>, have been fantastic displays of all of Punk\u2019s skills. But there have definitely been some low-lights, as Punk being regulated to an eleven-minute television match with <strong>QT Marshall<\/strong> on the recent Thanksgiving edition of AEW Dynamite.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CM Punk &amp; MJF: The Moment the World Has Been Waiting for Didn&#039;t Disappoint | AEW Dynamite, 11\/24\/21\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPAAKVDDEUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punk seems to be in the midst <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/11\/23\/cm-punk-mjf-rivalry\/\" target=\"_self\">of a feud<\/a> that has all the workings of being one of his best ever \u2014 and it hasn\u2019t even hosted an actual match yet. MJF and &#8220;Pepsi Phil&#8221; have been trading verbal jabs for weeks now and had one of the longest and widely praised promo segments in company history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But again, let\u2019s be honest; this is the perfect opportunity to send MJF into the stratosphere, and there\u2019s absolutely no reason why he shouldn\u2019t be the first person in the promotion to defeat CM Punk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several positives that could come out of this, specifically surrounding the AEW World Championship. Punk has many quality wins over people with winning records (<strong>Bobby Fish<\/strong>, <strong>Matt Sydal<\/strong>, Eddie Kingston, and <strong>Darby Allin<\/strong>) and should be in line for a title shot soon. If MJF were to beat him, that would hold over for his \u201cdue\u201d title shot for a bit longer \u2014 which is necessary at this point in his run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MJF Won&#039;t Stop Running His Mouth as the Verbal War Continues with CM Punk | AEW Dynamite, 12\/1\/21\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8FetG7sKEvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would also propel MJF to undoubtedly be the number one contender to that title, something he\u2019s been mentioning for a few weeks. Personally, I\u2019m of the belief that MJF should be the one to dethrone <strong>\u201cHangman\u201d Adam Page<\/strong> in the first quarter of 2022. If MJF were to do that, his feud with Punk could stretch out over the entire year of 2022 and most likely produce some quality pay-per-view matches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punk isn\u2019t somebody that needs the AEW title to stay relevant and prominent but will still probably get a run with it at some point simply due to the star power he brings. Although that time will come, it shouldn\u2019t be at the expense of Hangman or MJF \u2014 two of the people that will carry the company for years to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All in all, there isn\u2019t much benefit to Punk defeating MJF in any capacity of any match. MJF has much more to gain than Punk, who is one of the most \u201cbulletproof\u201d characters in professional wrestling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MJF should undoubtedly be the first person in All Elite Wrestling to defeat CM Punk. Ever since arriving on the All Elite scene in August, Punk has clocked in a fair amount of matches. Some of those bouts, such as the one with Eddie Kingston at Full Gear, have been fantastic displays of all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3960,"featured_media":105748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,2,6,2192],"tags":[140,2546],"class_list":["post-105665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","category-wrestling","tag-cm-punk","tag-mjf"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}