MJF claims fake pilot once tried to abduct him at AEW show
MJF recalled a bizarre backstage incident when he was almost abducted from an AEW event.
He detailed the incident during his interaction on The Adam Friedland Show. A man claiming to be a pilot approached him backstage informing him that he’d be flying him out to Long Island after the event. MJF later went to thank Tony Khan for the gesture, believing his boss had arranged it after his father suffered a heart attack. But Khan was confused and insisted he had nothing to do with it.
“A pilot walks up to me and he goes ‘Mr. Friedman, I’m going to be flying you out back home after the show’s proceedings’ which to be fair I’ve flown on the jet with my boss up to that point anyway. Not to the island, well, to the island, as in Long Island, the only island that matters.”
“So, I find my boss after this pilot says this to me and I knock on his door and he opens the door and he goes ‘Max!’, I go ‘Yeah, it’s me. I want you to know how much this means to me the fact that you’re trying to fly me back to my dad as soon as possible, after he had the heart attack.’ Cause he did know, my boss Tony Khan and he goes ‘What the f*ck are you talking about?’. And I go ‘The pilot just told me’. He goes ‘I didn’t f*cking book you a jet to go back home tonight’”
MJF returned with QT Marshall to confront the man. Marshall asked him to show his pilot’s license as proof and he pretended to have left it at home.
“So, now I go back over with one of my bosses, one of the EVPs of the company, QT Marshall. And QT goes, ‘So, who did you say hired you, again?’. He goes, ‘Tony Khan’. Tony Khan’s my boss. We go, ‘Okay, are you sure about that?’. And then security comes and they grab this guy, and QT goes, before the guy leaves, he goes ‘wait a minute, wait a minute, we’ll let you stay if you show us your pilot’s license’. And the guy, I sh*t you not does this (pats himself imitating his search). ‘Ah, I left it at home’. Get the f*ck outta here. So, then they f*cking throw, I guess they throw the guy in whatever you call the brig or whatever.”
The interviewer asked MJF how the man managed to get backstage access to which he replied that no one knows to this day. When security questioned the man’s intentions, he replied to abduct MJF.
“We still don’t know how he got there. We still don’t know how he got backstage. To be fair our security team has changed since then but it probably was the building security, not even AEW security fault but they asked this guy ‘What were you planning on doing?’. And he was honest he said gonna f*cking abduct me”
There was no specification on when the alleged incident transpired. However, MJF has talked about it publicly dating back to 2020.
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