During a new interview this week on The Adam Friedland Show, AEW World Champion MJF told this story about the time a fake pilot tried to kidnap him in Chicago at the All Out 2019 pay-per-view.
“I’m at a show in Chicago, my father had just had a heart attack…My mother told me, ‘Don’t worry.’ ‘Cause this was one of the first pay-per-views in the history of our company. She was like, you don’t want to miss this thing.
So I’m there, I’m pretty distraught. I’m worried about my dad. He ended up being okay.
And a pilot walks up to me, and he goes, ‘Mr. Friedman, I’m gonna be flying you out back home after the show’s proceedings.’ Which, to be fair, I had flown on the jet a couple times with my boss up to that point anyway.
…I find my boss after this pilot says this to me. I knock on his door. He opens the door [and I say,] ‘I want you to know how much this means to me, the fact that you’re trying to fly me back home to my dad as soon as possible after he had the heart attack.’ My boss Tony [Khan] did know [about the heart attack]. And he goes, ‘What the fuck are you talking about?’ And I go, ‘The pilot just told me.’ He goes, ‘I didn’t fucking book you a jet to go back home tonight.’
So now I go back over with one of the EVPs in the company, QT Marshall. And QT goes, ‘So who did you say hired you again?’ [The pilot] goes, ‘Tony Khan.’ We go, ‘Okay. Are you sure about that?’ And then security comes and they grab this guy, and QT goes, before the guy leaves, ‘Wait a minute. We’ll let you stay if you show us your pilot’s license.’ And the guy, I shit you not, does this [pats his pockets], ‘Ah, I left it at home!’
Get the fuck out of here!”
The fake pilot was honest about his intention to abduct MJF.
“We still don’t know how he got backstage. To be fair though, our security team has changed since then. It probably was the building security, not even AEW security fault.
But they asked this guy, what were you planning on doing? He was honest. He said he was gonna fucking abduct me. An adult man was going to abduct MJF…that’s the craziest ‘a fan wanting me dead’ scenario I’ve ever been in, for sure. It was in Chicago…to this day I don’t know what happened after that.”
Just another scary day in the life of a pro wrestler dealing with crazy fans, I suppose.
What’s your reaction to MJF’s story about this fake pilot who tried to kidnap him? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.
