The Shane McMahon-AEW rumor is officially over.
It all started when Conrad Thompson shared on Grilling JR that he got a message from a buddy saying Shane McMahon has been in touch with AEW wrestlers to discuss the possibility of joining the promotion. It was purely in a hypothetical way. This is after Jim Ross said that he didn’t think the idea of McMahon appearing in AEW was as “crazy as you think.”
Dave Meltzer reported people from the AEW side who should know about this either haven’t heard anything or have only heard what Thompson said.AEW President Tony Khan commented by stating, “I’ve never met him or talked to him in my life..” Meltzer also reported that there was a conversation between McMahon and a former WWE talent in AEW. However, it wasn’t a pitch for McMahon to join or anything like that. It was just a casual chat where McMahon mentioned something like, “Can you imagine if I walked out there on Dynamite?” It wasn’t meant to be a serious proposal, which could explain why the key people in AEW haven’t heard about it.
During the latest episode of his “The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast, Hardy was asked about this.
“He’s not,” Hardy said. “I heard from someone…none of that was true. It’s Matt Fiction, 100%, yeah. It would be wild.”
H/T to Fightful for the transcription