SportsMoney AEW All Out 2022 Results: MJF Returns As The Joker, Confronts CM Punk Alfred Konuwa Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about men in tights and the money they make for men in suits. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Got it! Sep 4, 2022, 11:58pm EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin MJF returned at AEW All Out Credit: AEW MJF returned at AEW All Out 2022, revealing a (storyline) voice message from Tony Khan to (kayfabe) pay him more money and show up at All Out in the Casino Battle Royale Ladder Match. MJF returned at the beginning of the night under a mask. After Stokely Hathaway and his recruitments, in Ethan Page, W. Morrissey, the Gunn Club and Lee Moriarti, crashed the match, Hathaway gifted the winning chip to MJF, who won the AEW Casino Battle Royale Ladder Match under a devil's mask. MJF appeared after CM Punk's world title win to confront the new champion. Despite being in Punk's hometown, fans chanted "MJF!" Fans widely speculated the identity of The Joker was MJF, and by night's end, they were not disappointed. MJF has had a bizarre—if not unprecedented—2022, where he has become more notorious for his actions outside of the ring than in it. During a shoo-in coronation for Wardlow during Double or Nothing weekend, as one of AEW’s newest top stars, MJF sniped every headline of the weekend by no-showing an AEW Double or Nothing fan fest. From there, MJF, Tony Khan and AEW launched into an odyssey where, to this day, nobody can draw the exact line between when this was a shoot and it became part of an AEW’s storyline. MJF Returns, Reveals Tony Khan Voicemail MJF last appeared on the June 1, 2022 broadcast of AEW Dynamite in Inglewood, Calif. , cutting a scathing pipebomb promo on AEW President Tony Khan before evading CM Punk through the crowd. What do you think? One Community, Many Voices. Be the first to comment comments posted on Forbes. Add your voice now. Join the Conversation “Hey boss, would you treat me better if I were an ex-WWE guy?” said MJF during an instantly classic promo. “See maybe you don’t get it man, here’s the problem with you boss: you got a position of power in a wrestling company, when the only position that you should be assuming is behind the guardrail with all of them!” “I don’t want to wait until 2024, but you won’t listen to me so allow me to make it a little easier for you: Tony, I want you to fire me. Don’t count me down! You piece of [expletive]! You shut your mouth!” “Tony, look at me Tony, look at me – I want you to fire me. You f***ing mark, fire me! Fire me! Fire me!” MJF went radio silent for the next three months, with Tony Khan repeatedly refusing to comment on the situation. MJF’s return couldn’t have come soon enough for AEW, which finds itself on the wrong side of a WWE momentum surge. Amid excitement for the new WWE product, WWE’s key performance indicators continue to rise. WWE Raw ratings garnered its third broadcast with two million or more viewers in the month of August. Prior to August, Raw had not gone over two million viewers since this year’s Raw After WrestleMania. All summer, AEW has battled crucial injuries and backstage unrest, not too unlike whatever’s going on between Tony Khan and MJF. A healing roster and the return of one of AEW’s biggest stars can help AEW regain traction in the wrestling wars. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn . Check out my website or some of my other work here . Alfred Konuwa Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions.