MJF suffered torn labrum, will still defend AEW World title at Worlds End

Update —

MJF has since deleted the tweet where he announced that he has a torn labrum.

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AEW World Champion MJF has suffered a torn labrum — but he isn’t vacating his title.

On Monday, MJF announced that he underwent an MRI on his left shoulder. The MRI revealed that he has a torn labrum, but MJF vowed that he’ll still be making his scheduled AEW World Championship defense against Samoa Joe at December’s Worlds End pay-per-view.

“I just got an MRI. I tore my labrum in my left shoulder,” MJF wrote. “I’ll be defending my title at worlds end. I believe in AEW.”

MJF retained his AEW World Championship against Jay White in the main event of Full Gear earlier this month. It was reported after the PPV that MJF was dealing with hip and shoulder injuries.

Dave Meltzer wrote in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

MJF legit suffered a dislocated hip during the match as well as aggravated a prior shoulder injury. The hip injury took place when he was planning to do the spot where you come off the top rope and fly far, ending with an elbow drop putting your opponent through a table. However, when he put White on the table, it collapsed. Instead of just ditching the spot, he felt that the crowd was going to flatten if he didn’t do the spot, climbed up to the top rope and did an elbow drop from the top rope to the floor, which is an absolute killer on your hip. It was popped back in but he was in terrible pain. The shoulder injury worsened from a top rope uranage.

MJF has now been AEW World Champion for more than a year. His reign began at Full Gear 2022.

Worlds End is taking place from MJF’s hometown of Long Island, New York. The show will emanate from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale on Saturday, December 30.