AEW champion MJF recalls ‘craziest’ abduction story

Professional wrestlers are public figures and often find themselves in wholesome as well as creepy fan situations. A few days ago, WWE Superstars Oba Femi, Dominik Mysterio, and Stephanie Vaquer found themselves in awkward fan situations.

Just a few days later, AEW World Champion MJF opened up and recalled facing something similar in the past. Speaking to Adam Friedland, MJF recalled experiencing a near abduction almost seven years ago, in 2019.

“I’m at a show in Chicago, and my father just had a heart attack. My mother told me, ‘Don’t worry.’ This is one of the first pay-per-views in the history of our company. ‘You don’t want to miss this.’ I’m there, I’m pretty distraught, I’m worried about my dad. He ended up being okay. A pilot walks up to me, and he goes, ‘Mr. Friedman, I’m going to be flying you out back home after the show.’ To be fair, I had flown on the jet a couple of times with my boss up to that point,” MJF said.

“I find my boss after this pilot says this to me, I knock on his door, he opens the door, and I go, ‘I want you to know how much this means to me that you’re trying to fly me back home to my dad as soon as possible after he had the heart attack.’ Tony did know. He goes, ‘What the fuck are you talking about?’ ‘The pilot just told me.’ ‘I didn’t fucking book you a jet to go back home tonight,'” MJF continued.

“Now, I go back over with one of the EVPs, QT Marshall, and QT goes, ‘Who did you say hired you again?’ The pilot goes, ‘Tony Khan.’ We go, ‘Okay. Are you sure about that?’ Security comes, and they grab this guy, and QT goes, before the guy leaves, ‘We’ll let you stay if you show us your pilot’s license.’ The guy, I shit you not, does this, [pats his waist], ‘Ah! I left it at home.’ Get the fuck out of here!”

The current AEW World Champion further opened up and shared, “We still don’t know how he got backstage. To be fair, our security team has changed since then. It probably was the building security, not even AEW security fault. They asked this guy, ‘What were you planning on doing?’ He was honest. He said he was going to fucking abduct me. That’s the craziest fan wanting me dead scenario I’ve ever been in.”

If MJF had gone with that person, who knows what might have happened? Fortunately, things never took that turn. “The Salt of the Earth” is now scheduled to face Kenny Omega at AEW Dynasty 2026.

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