MJF was just standing up to a bully.
On the July 17th episode of AEW Dynamite, MJF challenged Will Ospreay for the AEW International Championship. They battled it out for nearly an hour, and MJF scored the win. During the match, MJF and Ospreay fought in the crowd. At one point, a seven-year-old fan hit MJF. MJF flipped her off, and the bout continued.
Speaking on Casual Conversations with The Classic, MJF was asked about the young fan getting media time in the aftermath of the show.
“She’s a terrorist. Let’s talk about it,” MJF said. “We need to talk about this. So here’s the deal. I’m wrestling a match, I think we’re like three minutes in at this point. I’m just about to beat Will in a matter of seconds, and this guy, because he’s scared of me, he hops over the guard rail. He tries to leave the arena. Wild stuff. So now, to protect the integrity of our sport, I’m chasing after this guy. What a wuss. But I care about our company.
“So let me catch up to this guy so we can continue on with this match. When I got a hold of him, I’m beating him up with ease in this crowd. But it was a pretty hostile environment. Then, out of nowhere, a girl pulls a gun out. Now, I don’t know if you can see the gun when you watch the match back, but she had me at gunpoint and then proceeded to strike me in the chest. Repeatedly.”
MJF: I Flipped Her Off, Rightfully So
MJF continued by noting that he did not feel the strikes, and he flipped the young fan off because he was standing up to a bully. He then recapped scoring the win against Ospreay.
“Now, I didn’t feel any of the strikes because I’m jacked,” MJF said. “I have a chest the size of a Dodge Ram truck. So she stops, she puts the gun away. It’s at that point, even though I knew she had the gun on her, I wasn’t fearing for my life at this point because you gotta stand up to bullies, no matter what the situation is.
“So I flip her off, rightfully so, in my opinion, as I think anybody else would. Then Ospreay sneak attacks me from behind when all I’m trying to do is react to this vicious terrorist, and proceeded to sneak attack me while we were in the crowd. Luckily, I stopped him, I threw him in the ring. I gave him a great right hand punch, and that was all she wrote.”
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