AEW president Tony Khan gets honest on ‘pleasant’ conversation with Shane McMahon

Tony Khan, The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, and Cody Rhodes founded AEW a few years ago in 2019. Starting as a mainstream wrestling competition in WWE in the USA, AEW soon began growing and is now often regarded as one of the largest wrestling promotions in the world.

A few years ago, shocking viewers all across the globe, a picture portraying Shane McMahon and Khan together started going viral. Recently speaking to Jonathan Coachman and Vince Russo, Khan opened up about and explained his meeting with McMahon.

“I had one really pleasant conversation with Shane [McMahon]. Shane reached out to me and said I’d love to get together. Where are you gonna be? I was going to be in Dallas, we were doing a bunch of shows around Arlington, Texas, and I said to Shane, ‘That’s where I’m gonna be, I can meet you here,’ and we had a nice conversation, and talked for a few hours at the airport.

“I thought it was really strange that a photo came out from it. I thought it was pretty unusual; it could just be someone who worked at the airport, but I had nothing to do with it,” Khan said. “It’s very unusual, I talk to people all the time, from all different media places, Shane’s a very recognisable face in Sports and the world of wrestling, where any wrestling fan would recognise him.

“So that could be what it is, someone recognised we were in a room and wanted to take a photo, I’m in a lot of rooms with a lot of people, I’ve only had that happen one time, so I thought that was unusual. You can see in the photo I’m very surprised, and I noticed he wasn’t as surprised as I was,” he further continued.

Further, Khan shared how their conversation went and how McMahon rejected the chance of portraying an on-screen character in AEW. “I’ve only had the one really nice talk with him. I thought that was interesting. I also thought it was impressive how, in one conversation, somehow it got out that I talked to him, but it was a very pleasant chat, and he seems like a really interesting guy. I don’t think the role of being an on-screen person in a wrestling show seemed like the thing he was interested in, but he had a lot of interesting experiences that are different than mine, but I don’t think he went into it thinking I want to be a character on this guy’s show”

A couple of years ago, in 2024, WrestleTalk and Fightful noted that Tony Khan had a meeting with Shane McMahon. Soon after, the media outlets also released a photo of their meeting, which triggered rumours about McMahon’s possible jump to AEW.

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