MJF Retains ROH Tag Titles By Himself

MJF defeated The Righteous in a 2-on-1 handicap match.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman entered the Climate Pledge Arena dealing with an uphill battle The AEW World Champion was set to defend the Ring of Honor Tag Team Championships alongside associate Adam Cole in an ordinary title protection towards The Righteous, however an ill-timed damage to Cole left the self-proclaimed generational expertise at a handicap drawback. This previous Wednesday on AEW Dynamite, Cole teased that his ankle damage was going to pressure he and MJF to vacate their tag gold, however MJF insisted on carrying on the reign. As a outcome, MJF walked into AEW WrestleDream by his lonesome, defending the titles in a handicap match towards Vincent and Dutch.

MJF Retains ROH Tag Titles By Himself

The Devil works tougher.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman defeated The Righteous in a 2-on-1 handicap match to kick off AEW WrestleDream, retaining his ROH Tag Titles within the course of. MJF was as much as his normal tweener shenanigans all through the bout, taking shortcuts wherever he may to get one over on The Righteous. He would get the decisive 1-2-3 with assist from having his ft on the ropes, however referee Bryce Remsberg didn’t discover.

MAX HIT THE KANGAROO KICK!

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MJF is asking for the BODY SLAM!

Can he do it???

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This continues MJF and Cole’s ROH Tag Title reign that started at AEW ALL IN: London this previous August. The two males have only one profitable title protection collectively, as they defeated Dark Order to maintain the gold at September’s AEW All Out.

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AEW WrestleDream 2023 Card

• AEW TNT Championship (Two Out of Three Falls): Christian Cage (c) vs. Darby Allin
• Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr.
• “Hangman” Adam Page vs. Swerve Strickland
• AEW World Tag Team Championships: FTR (c) vs. Aussie Open
• Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi vs. Konosuke Takeshita, Sammy Guevara, and Will Ospreay (w/ Don Callis)
• AEW World Tag Team Championship No.1 Contender’s Match: Young Bucks vs. The Gunns vs. Lucha Brothers vs. Orange Cassidy and Hook
• ROH and NJPW Strong Championships: Eddie Kingston (c) vs. Katsuyori Shibata
• AEW TBS Championship: Kris Statlander (c) vs. Julia Hart
• Ricky Starks vs. Wheeler Yuta
• ROH Tag Team Championships (Handicap Match): MJF (c) def. The Righteous
• Zero Hour: Luchasaurus def. Nick Wayne
• AEW World Trios Championships, Zero Hour: The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn (c) def. TMDK
• Zero Hour: Satoshi Kojima, Keith Lee, Athena and Billie Starkz def. Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty, Diamante and Mercedes Martinez
• Zero Hour: Claudio Castagnoli def. Josh Barnett