MJF Got Hurt, but Apparently It's Not Too Bad

MJF, seen here with the CZW Wired Championship, had to forfeit an Inspire Pro title due to injury
Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein

MJF, who got a microphone and some time at All Elite Wrestling's Fyter Fest to show his wares as a blowhard with a black hat, was suspiciously placed in a ho-hum six-man tag at Fight for the Fallen that served to advance a questionable story with criss-crossed alignments. If his actions in the match were the only notable thing going on, it wouldn't be notable to post about him today. Except news broke Sunday by Inspire Pro Wrestling, of which MJF was the Pure Prestige Champion, that he would be missing the show because of a "severe" elbow injury and thus be forfeiting the title, not because of bad blood, but because his AEW exclusivity would prevent him from wrestling for Inspire in the future. In case you're wondering, Ricky Starks won the title against Steve-O Reno. Starks was originally slated to challenge MJF for it before the injury.

However, Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful "was told" (probably by MJF, but I'm sure he has reason to keep the source anonymous) that the injury wasn't that severe, that he was just "banged up," and wanted to rest a little bit between Fight for the Fallen and his AAA appearance in a tag match teaming with Cody. I guess he chose the lucha giant over one of three major Central Texas indies for what he'd want to risk further injury on his elbow, which makes sense, to be fair. Other than AAA, MJF doesn't seem to have a lot on his fight card going forward. He doesn't have a match for All Out yet, for example, but with only four matches announced so far, a lot of people don't have matches there yet. Hopefully, this injury remains minor enough that he can either recover from it with rest or work through it and get lucky enough that it doesn't aggravate.