{"id":212916,"date":"2026-03-04T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=212916"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:45:28","slug":"mjf-says-he-plans-to-never-leave-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/03\/04\/mjf-says-he-plans-to-never-leave-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"MJF says he plans to never leave AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1795032839\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>MJF says he never plans to leave AEW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat keeps me in AEW is my ability to be myself; there\u2019s no leash on me,&#8221; said MJF\u00a0 while promoting Dynamite this week in El Paso, Tex. in an interview with ABC-7 sports director Adrian Ochoa <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/sports\/2026\/03\/02\/aew-returns-to-el-paso-one-on-one-interview-with-aew-champion-mjf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on KVIA<\/a>,\u00a0 &#8220;I don\u2019t have to worry about anyone sitting me down and telling me what I am doing right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy boss knows I am the draw. I have the World title right now. Ratings are up, ticket sales are up. I wonder why? He lets me do my thing. So, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MJF is the current AEW World Champion. He is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/03\/04\/aew-dynamite-preview-3-4-announced-matches-location-ticket-sales-how-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scheduled<\/a> to defend the AEW World Championship tonight against Kevin Knight on Dynamite. He is also scheduled to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allelitewrestling.com\/post\/aew-dynamite-results-february-25-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> defend<\/a> the AEW World Championship against Hangman Page in a Texas Death match at AEW&#8217;s Revolution PPV on March 15. If Page loses to MJF, he can never challenge for the AEW World Championship again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3254801981\"><div id=\"pwtor-3419967205\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MJF says he never plans to leave AEW. \u201cWhat keeps me in AEW is my ability to be myself; there\u2019s no leash on me,&#8221; said MJF\u00a0 while promoting Dynamite this week in El Paso, Tex. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/03\/04\/mjf-says-he-plans-to-never-leave-aew\/\" title=\"MJF says he plans to never leave AEW\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":165807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-15-at-2.37.27-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212921,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212916\/revisions\/212921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}