Tony Khan is still not interested in speaking about MJF‘s status with All Elite Wrestling.
During his Forbidden Door post-show media scrum, Tony Khan was asked if he would comment on MJF’s status with AEW. Khan declined to comment on the “Salt Of The Earth”, instead choosing to focus on a successful joint pay-per-view event with New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
“Especially after the great show that we did, I’m not gonna comment on it. It’s a fair question to ask, but I’m not gonna cover that one right now,” Khan said.
MJF has not been seen on AEW programming since the June 1 episode of AEW Dynamite, where he cut an in-ring promo and demanded to be fired. MJF was also pulled from advertisements and promotional materials at the behest of Warner Bros. Discovery, and Khan has declined to comment on his status multiple times since then.
Later in the scrum, Khan said he was happy with the show’s success, touting the live gate and said that early numbers are strong for digital statistics.
“Feeling fantastic. The show was a big success. We had ticket sales here in Chicago over 1.1 million dollars. I think it’ll be within literally thousands, it’ll probably be just behind Double or Nothing, right there, both at the 1.1 million live ticket sales. And the pay-per-view, I said if we hit 100,000 worldwide buys, I would feel it’s a big success and I feel very comfortable based on the digital numbers saying we had 100,000 worldwide buys and more. And I feel great about that. That’s a big success for a new franchise, and we’ve always had growth on our pay-per-views year-over-year based on really strong word of mouth and trying to do good TV week to week to build them. And I think even with all the challenges here, the TV’s been really strong the last several weeks, I’m really proud of the work we’ve done. And to be honest, I’ve never been prouder of how a show’s come together, and a lot of it comes from New Japan. They’re a great roster of talent, and they’re great people. For me, being here quarterbacking it, it’s been a challenge, and it’s probably been, other than the early shutdown lockdown wrestling of 2020, this is probably the biggest creative challenge I’ve ever faced, and I think we came through and did a great show. Probably since Double or Nothing 2020, I can’t remember being so proud of putting something together that came together so quickly and changed a lot from what it might have originally been and when we did the first lockdown pay-per-view.”
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