On Sunday at Forbidden Door, MJF will wrestle in front of a near sold-out crowd in London, England at The O2 against AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Page. As AEW’s longest-reigning men’s World Champion, he gets another shot at gold — his first time in the World Championship picture since losing the belt to Samoa Joe at Worlds End 2023.

They’ve always been in each other’s orbit in some way as two of AEW’s biggest homegrown stars. At AEW All In Texas, MJF secured a win in the Casino Gauntlet for a future title opportunity. On AEW Dynamite last week, the champion goaded him into using his contract. However MJF, as always, had something up his sleeve. This week, he threatened Mark Briscoe’s life, which got Hangman to agree to his terms for the match.

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