AEW World Champion MJF Calls Out Sheamus Following Reports of WWE Departure

With word circulating that Sheamus is set to leave WWE when his contract expires, AEW World Champion MJF wasted little time making his interest known — taking to social media to call out the Irish slugger with a pointed message: “Bring that smoke O’Shaunessy.”

The callout wasn’t entirely out of nowhere. MJF dug up an old back-and-forth he and Sheamus had engaged in back in September 2022, using it as the jumping-off point for his current pitch. The framing made clear that MJF sees a potential program with Sheamus as unfinished business — or at least a compelling opportunity worth stoking publicly.

Sheamus has spent the bulk of his career as one of WWE’s most reliable big-match performers, a multi-time world champion with a legitimate hard-hitting reputation that would translate well to any roster. The prospect of him landing in AEW, where MJF currently holds the top title, is the kind of dream-match scenario that fans have been buzzing about since the contract news broke.

Whether Sheamus will actually sign with AEW remains to be seen — free agents of his stature tend to draw interest from multiple directions. But MJF making his pitch loudly and publicly on social media is a classic move from a champion who knows how to keep himself at the center of the conversation. If Sheamus does end up in Jacksonville, the seeds of a feud have already been planted.