AEW star Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) made a surprise appearance at Major League Wrestling’s Fightland event tonight, appearing in a backstage segment with his former Dynasty stablemate, Alex Hammerstone. The exchange saw the two men reflect on their different career paths since the group’s dissolution and ended with a tease of a potential reunion.
The unannounced segment began with MJF approaching Hammerstone. “Six years ago, Dynasty, we’re on the top of professional wrestling,” MJF began. “Six years later, I’m still on the top. And I’m saying this with love… I’ve had to watch you become a court jester… You are the best big man in professional wrestling today, and you walk around like you’re not the guy, and it makes me sick. I don’t know what’s holding you back.”
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Hammerstone responded with a candid and emotional promo about his recent struggles and his frustration with fans who constantly ask for a Dynasty reunion. “The Dynasty is over, Max,” Hammerstone stated. “And since the Dynasty has been over, I’ve watched you climb and climb and climb and get to these new heights. And I have struggled, and I have struggled and I have struggled and I have fallen to my lowest of lows.”
He continued, “I hear people talk, they talk about the things I’ve done that were so great, the matches I’ve had that were so great… That was 2021, Max. And it makes me think, what if my best days are behind me? And that’s a feeling that makes me sick, because that’s the kind of feeling that makes you want to quit.”
Hammerstone then declared a change in his mindset. “Maybe it’s time I stopped loving it. Maybe it’s time that I fully hate professional wrestling, that I fully hate everyone in the back, that I fully hate everybody that I wrestle, that I fully hate every stupid fan that wants to see a Dynasty reunion,” he said, before concluding, “Max, I think you’re right. My best days are yet to come.”
The segment ended with the two men seemingly on the same page once again. “They’re only just beginning,” MJF responded. “I am All Elite. You are Major League. And together on top of the professional wrestling landscape, we and we alone are Dynasty.”
The Dynasty was a popular heel faction in MLW that also included Richard Holliday and Alexander Hammerstone. Since the group went their separate ways, MJF has gone on to become a top star and former World Champion in AEW, while Hammerstone became a dominant and long-reigning MLW World Heavyweight Champion before recently hitting a career rough patch.
