"Nobody cared" - MJF opens up on worrying injury in AEW

Current AEW American Champion MJF detailed the injury that kept him out of action. Max suffered the injury at a pay-per-view last year.

Last year at the Full Gear 2023 pay-per-view, MJF was set to defend his AEW world title against Jay White in the main event. However, Max suffered an injury at the beginning of the show which forced him to wrestle on just one leg in the main event. In a hard-fought battle, he managed to retain his title in the end.

Due to the injury, MJF had to be out of action for months afterward. Speaking on The Wrestling Classic recently, the AEW American champion detailed the pain amid his injury:

“I didn’t know. So in the Jay White match, I hit an elbow drop from the top rope to the floor because I was trying to impress people that I thought cared about me. Later on, I found out they didn’t. It was the most pain I’d ever been in in my entire life."

Max further admitted how nobody cared about him after his injury:

"Then somebody tells me you need to do a press conference and I go, ‘Oh, I love the wrestling fans. I’ll do a press conference, and I’ll fight through these tears.’ Once again, wrestling fans showed me they don’t care about me. They made memes about it, they thought it was funny. Hands down, the most pain I’ve ever been in, and nobody cared.” [h/t Inside The Ropes]

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MJF on suffering multiple injuries at AEW Full Gear 2023

As mentioned earlier, MJF wrestled on one leg in his AEW world title match against Jay White at Full Gear 2023. Max also disclosed how he suffered multiple injuries during the match:

"My hip popped out its socket. Because I thought those people cared about me, I fought through it for I think another 20 minutes, maybe, and then not long after that, Jay White, who is a hell of a professional wrestler, I beat him, but that’s neither here nor there, he’s a hell of a professional wrestler, he hit me with a Urinagi off the top rope, and I landed directly on my left shoulder, and my labrum just snapped entirely in half." [h/t Inside The Ropes]

Meanwhile, MJF is set to defend his American Title against Will Ospreay in a rematch at All In 2024. It remains to be seen who walks out the champion.