MJF Shares Huge AEW Injury Update (AEW News)
AEW World Champion MJF has provided a major injury update.
With concerns that AEW World Champion MJF could be set for a lengthy absence due to injury, the Salt of the Earth has played down such talk.
After MJF was pulled from a Beyond Wrestling show last Friday, reports circulated that Max had suffered some sort of leg injury in his match against RUSH on last week's AEW Dynamite. The 30-year-old has now taken to Instagram to confirm this injury to be a hyperextended left knee, which did indeed occur in that RUSH contest.
In that Insta video, MJF was talking from a Nordic Wave cold plunge, and while he said there's still pain and inflammation in his knee, he won't need to take any time off, crediting the Nordic Wave in aiding his recovery.
That video was recorded prior to last night's AEW Dynamite, on which MJF appeared in several segments as part of the build to Forbidden Door later this month. As announced by Mark Briscoe, the Forbidden Door main event will be a 12-person tag team steel cage match pitting Briscoe and five partners against MJF and five partners, with the stipulation that, should Chicken's team be victorious, he'll get himself a shot at Max's AEW World Championship. Briscoe is expected to have his Conglomoration pals with him in that match, while Kevin Knight is the first person confirmed for MJF's team on the basis of MJF guaranteeing the Jet a future title shot. Big Hebrew also offered up a bunch of cash to Don Callis in exchange for other to-be-confirmed members of the Callis Family to be on that team.
In other now-confirmed matches for Forbidden Door, Kenny Omega will face New Japan's Zack Sabre Jr., Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay will do battle in the final of the men's Owen Hart Cup, and the women's Owen will see Mercedes Moné/Hazuki vs. Athena/Maya World.
Expected to feature talent from AEW, NJPW, CMLL, STARDOM, and ROH, Forbidden Door takes place on Sunday, June 28th from San Jose's SAP Center.