MJF returns at AEW Grand Slam Mexico, declares himself for casino gauntlet qualifying match ahead of All In

MJF made his instrumentality to All Elite Wrestling programming with authorization connected Wednesday night’s Grand Slam Mexico.

After Andrade El Idolo won a triple-threat lucifer to gain the No. 1 spot successful the casino gauntlet lucifer astatine All In aboriginal this month, MJF came done the assemblage and attacked Andrade with the Triple B AEW World Championship. He besides took backmost his Dynamite Diamond Ring.

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AEW Champion MJF visits SiriusXM connected Radio Row astatine Super Bowl LX successful San Francisco, Calif., connected Feb. 5, 2026. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

MJF near Andrade bloodied and fired disconnected a poignant connection to the remainder of the AEW locker room. He and the Triple B AEW World Championship is the lone "true" rubric and vowed to triumph the championship, presently held by Kenny Omega, erstwhile helium enters and wins the casino gauntlet match.

"Next week we’re successful Vegas and I’m feeling lucky. There is simply a gauntlet qualifying lucifer for the casino gauntlet lucifer astatine All In for the No. 2 spot. I americium going to participate that match. I americium going to triumph that match," helium declared. "I’m past going to spell to Wembley wherever I americium going to canine locomotion that perro Andrade again.

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Feb 22, 2023; Phoenix, AZ, USA; AEW Champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman aka MJF appears during AEW Dynamite astatine Footprint Center. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports)

"I volition triumph the declaration again and bash precisely what I did the past time."

The victor of the casino gauntlet lucifer earns a declaration for a aboriginal AEW World Championship shot. MJF won the lucifer astatine past year’s All In successful Texas. He challenged Adam Page for the AEW rubric astatine Forbidden Door.

MJF wouldn’t triumph the rubric again until Worlds End successful December. He mislaid it to Darby Allin but got it backmost astatine Double oregon Nothing earlier this year.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman gets acceptable for a combat astatine AEW Revolution connected March 15, 2026. (All Elite Wrestling)

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Omega, then, bushed MJF astatine AEW Dynamite: Beach Break successful July. MJF hadn’t been seen since and is present hoping to get backmost into the casino gauntlet to gain himself a accidental astatine a 4th reign.