MJF has continued his public campaign for AEW to run Madison Square Garden, telling TV Insider in a new interview that the company would sell out the historic New York venue “easy” and that an MSG main event is one of the remaining items on his career checklist.
MJF, who challenges Darby Allin for the AEW World Championship in a Title vs Hair match at Double or Nothing on Sunday in Flushing, NY, framed Madison Square Garden as his personal target.
“That’s my Mecca. I know we’d sell it out easy. It would be a joke, especially if I’m in the main event. That’s a big goal of mine to wrestle in MSG. I’ve managed to accomplish the old checklist in this industry, but the scary thing is I’m doing a speed run. There is not much left. MSG is definitely on that list.”
Madison Square Garden has not hosted a non-WWE wrestling event since September 2019, when ROH and NJPW ran the historic G1 Supercard show with Kazuchika Okada, Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, and The Young Bucks. The Garden’s policy on non-WWE wrestling events has been a subject of discussion over the years, with the venue’s exclusive WWE arrangement reportedly a structural obstacle to AEW running there.
The MJF push for an AEW MSG show would also be a full-circle moment for Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks specifically, who headlined the 2019 G1 Supercard show before AEW launched and have been at the center of AEW’s main event picture since. Khan has not formally committed to running MSG.
AEW Double or Nothing this weekend at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Flushing is the closest the company has come to the New York City market, with the venue itself sitting in Queens about 20 miles from Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
