{"id":339917,"date":"2026-05-24T12:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=339917"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:15:43","slug":"aews-mjf-is-not-surprised-by-danhausens-wwe-success-he-pulls-people-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/aews-mjf-is-not-surprised-by-danhausens-wwe-success-he-pulls-people-in\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW&#8217;s MJF Is not Surprised By Danhausen&#8217;s WWE Success: He &#8216;Pulls People In&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2178523\/aew-wwe-mjf-maxwell-jacob-friedman-danhausen-isnt-surprised\/\" data-post-title=\"AEW's MJF Isn't Surprised By Danhausen's WWE Success: He 'Pulls People In'\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2178523\">\n<picture id=\"pa702e2a89c5a20197f5b4f889ddf0e82\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/aews-mjf-isnt-surprised-by-danhausens-wwe-success-he-pulls-people-in\/intro-1779376569.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/aews-mjf-isnt-surprised-by-danhausens-wwe-success-he-pulls-people-in\/intro-1779376569.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">WWE<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Skilled wrestlers jumping between firms is not anything recent, not since All Elite Wrestling emerged as WWE&#8217;s strongest competitor in many years, starting in 2019. One in all those stars who recently moved from AEW, where he was hardly used on television, to WWE is Danhausen, and the &#8220;Very Nice, Very Evil&#8221; one has been heavily featured in comedic spots on each television and premium live events.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One one who is not surprised at Danhausen&#8217;s near-instant success is former AEW World Champion MJF. When asked about Danhausen&#8217;s quick rise in WWE on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Icd0oR11Ca4\" target=\"_blank\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>,&#8221; MJF said he wasn&#8217;t remotely shocked.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Danhausen rules. Danhausen has all the time ruled,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s an amazing guy. Danhausen sells merch like a motherf***** and Danhausen, the person behind the face paint, I&#8217;ve known him since I used to be literally 20. He&#8217;s as advertised. He so clearly pulls people in through his love of the business, if that is smart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Helwani asked MJF if he was surprised Danhausen was pushed so quickly, as he&#8217;s getting loads of television time in prime spots of each &#8220;WWE Raw&#8221; and &#8220;WWE SmackDown.&#8221; The previous champion compared skilled wrestling TV to at-bats in baseball.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;There are specific guys, that in case you put a bat of their hand and so they&#8217;re up next, you is perhaps like, &#8216;Eh. Oh s***,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;Then there are other guys where you place a bat of their hand and they are going to hit a f****** dinger. That is me&#8230; I assumed that if Danhausen was given at bats, that eventually he was going to hit a dinger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>For those who use any quotes from this text, please credit &#8220;The Ariel Helwani Show&#8221; and supply a h\/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Skilled wrestlers jumping between firms is not anything recent, not since All Elite Wrestling emerged as WWE&#8217;s strongest competitor in many years, starting in 2019. One in all those stars who recently moved from AEW, where he was hardly used on television, to WWE is Danhausen, and the &#8220;Very Nice, Very Evil&#8221; one has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[20567,49311,6299,15704,2038,1465,456,8346,6221],"class_list":["post-339917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-aews","tag-danhausens","tag-isnt","tag-mjf","tag-people","tag-pulls","tag-success","tag-surprised","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339920,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339917\/revisions\/339920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}