#both MJF and Roderick can screams

[hanitje]

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[marq-lynch]

Man I expected this week to be on the 'Hangman Did Hella Wrong (/affectionate)' train, but I didn't anticipate reigniting my MJF Defender tendencies so let's go!

You make an excellent point I'd like to dig into more which is that while Hangman's lows are now far lower than MJF's, his highs are not as High, and you specifically point out the timeline they have for both those things!

So I want to bring up the idea of Equity vs Equality, which I think MJF tried to do in his promo, but bless his heart, he's cried wolf so many times we tune it out now. 'You were handpicked with the silver spoon and every opportunity, I came in with a scarf and a microphone'.

MJF is the short guy who started life standing in a shoulder deep pit, getting bullied, and being bitter about the view. He climbs his way out of the pit, and saw tall guys standing around, some of them provided soapboxes to get a better view. Hangman is one of those guys.

Now early Hangman I would say? Had a fear of heights, and got off the soapbox provided, tripped, and fell in a shallow ditch for a little while until someone helped him back up and he climbed back up on that box himself. But now? Now he's off, he's torn the box to shreds, using the planks to dig himself a hole deep enough to hide in standing up.

So when MJF has climbed out of his own little pit he's been in his whole life, onto a soap box, gotten a taste of the view, and then gotten knocked back down to the ground within six months of ever climbing out? He's only 5'8", He looks a lot shorter than he is, but man... Proportionally he did a lot more work, and he was down there for a long time, with very little help. And he's not going back in his pit. But everyone is making fun of him just for standing on the surface now. So why not just say 'fuck all of you' and sit down on a soapbox instead?

Because Max really has improved. He's done the work and gotten no credit, and the shocking part is, except for a few minor frustrated and very reasonable 'oh but HANGMAN did nothing wrong' type complaints about the injustice of the world? He is better. Not Better Than You, maybe, but he's been doing the work, you can tell. He's matured. That promo he cut against Roderick a while back screamed months of therapy, and more often than not now you see him simply bite his tongue to shreds and grin when he clearly wants to escalate and retort, most often calling someone out on their bullshit or hypocrisy.

He still snaps, he still has his fallbacks, but oh man... He's been doing the thing that Hangman should be doing: trying to improve himself and his career instead of starting drama and spiraling. And he's doing it quietly, because unlike Hangman, there is no Elite left for him to push away, or Christopher Daniels to offer him a hand to slap aside in anger. There's just him, and another round of public humiliations he gets to smile through as he bites scar tissue into his cheeks.

i'm still chewing on that like i think hangman's lows are lower than mjf's. i think hangman right now is like straight up maniacal but i think he only really got that way in the last year and a half or so because of like dedicated concerted psychological torture. and not to say that he was EVER mentally well because he absolutely wasn't but i think that pushing all your friends away and becoming an alcoholic is kind of pedestrian compared to actually burning down a guys childhood home because you let your anger consume you. but just like hangman at his lowest is worse than mjf at his lowest i think that hangman at his healthiest was probably healthier than mjf at his best i think he's kind of always been doing pretty terrible. so i think it depends on if you're counting like historical worsts or kind of taking a lifetime average

[king-tyrone36]

Honestly hated the thought of MJF/Adam Cole storyline but, 👀🤌🏾👑👏🏾 God bless Pro Wrestling

Pro Wrestling is sacred- Antonio Inoki

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