MJF and Andrade feud grows as mask-versus-hair match teased in Mexico

AEW star Maxwell Jacob Friedman, known as MJF, and recently released former WWE wrestler Andrade engaged in a heated public feud this week, culminating in Andrade challenging MJF to a high stakes mask versus hair match in Mexico as MJF prepared to defend a CMLL title. The exchanges took place on social media in the days surrounding CMLL's 92nd Anniversary show at Arena Mexico in Mexico City on Sept. 20, 2025, where MJF lost the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship to Mistico in a bloody, high-profile main event.

The confrontation began after word spread that Andrade had been let go by WWE. MJF, who had been taunting Mexican luchadores as part of a summer-long storyline and was scheduled to face Mistico on the CMLL card, tagged Andrade and wrote that he would be in Mexico beating Mistico and invited Andrade to "grab a marg" before flying to Toronto for AEW All Out. Andrade replied with a middle finger emoji and later posted, "IN MEXICO! It's MASK VS HAIR The_MJF pussy!!" MJF subsequently dismissed the proposal online, writing, "lol. No. Get over without burning another bridge than we can discuss us having a match at all. Pussy," according to his social media posts.