AEW Champion MJF Addresses Potential Retirement From Wrestling
MJF is the face of AEW as the reigning AEW World Champion.
MJF won the AEW World Championship at AEW Worlds End 2025 PPV after defeating the previous champion, Samoa Joe, along with Swerve Strickland and Hangman Adam Page, in a four-way match. He recently defended his title against Brody King at AEW Grand Slam Australia on February 14.
The Salt of the Earth recently sat down with Chris Van Vliet for an interview on his Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, where he was asked about his retirement plans. MJF replied that he hasn’t even thought about retirement yet, as he is still young.
He said, “No, because I’m young, the idea hasn’t even entered my head, like when I was watching that John Cena retirement, or the AJ Styles retirement.”
MJF Names His Top Matches In AEW
During the interview, Chris Van Vliet also asked MJF to name his top five matches of all time. In response, MJF went beyond the limit and mentioned more than five of his greatest matches.
“Bryan Danielson, Iron Man match. CM Punk, dog collar match, I’m gonna throw MJF versus Hangman at Revolution. I believe that was last year. Darby versus me Full Gear, we were the opening match. This is where it gets hard. I will throw in the Mistico match as well.
We can do this all day. I can do a top 50, because I’ve had it. But I think those are the ones that, when people think about my career, that’ll come up. The match against Kenny Omega on Collision also. These things can be swapped and switched. The match against Samoa Joe at Grand Slam was insanity.
My match with Adam Cole in front of 82,000 people, we pretty much broke the sound barrier that night. It was absurd. It was the loudest I’ve ever [heard], my ears hurt. Both of my matches with Will Ospreay.”