MJF distances himself from Roman Reigns’ nickname

On the left, MJF is seen on SiriusXM on Radio Row at Super Bowl LX on February 05, 2026, in San Francisco, California. On the right, Roman Reigns is pictured during Monday Night Raw at the CHI Health Center on May 4, 2026, in Omaha, Nebraska. | (Photos by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM and Melina Pizano/WWE via Getty Images) Maxwell Jacob Friedman recently returned to AEW programming, and he soon declared himself to be the promotion’s real world champion. In fact, MJF became enraged with announcer Justin Roberts on this week’s Dynamite when he wasn’t billed as “The One True Champion.” He went so far as to choke Roberts before a match that saw him beat Speedball Bailey and Nick Wayne to earn the number two spot in the Casino Gauntlet match at All In. Along with this new angle, MJF’s latest monicker got a lot of talk on social media, especially after some fans took to using the acronym of “OTC” for the AEW star. Of course, WWE has its own OTC in the form of “Original Tribal Chie