Further details emerge on Tony Khan/Shane McMahon meeting about AEW

The Shane McMahon/Tony Khan/AEW story came back to life Thursday following some comments made from a former WWE broadcaster on a podcast. Jonathan Coachman claimed on his The Coach & Bro podcast that during the much-discussed meeting McMahon and Khan had last summer, McMahon asked for both equity in AEW and to “run the entire show.” He also said Khan never followed up or communicated with McMahon after the meeting, using the term “ghosted.” Fightful Select then reported that according to sources close to McMahon, Khan indeed failed to follow up and while the equity claim couldn’t be verified, the claim of wanting to run AEW appeared to be accurate. However, he didn’t have the knowledge of AEW or their business to realistically be able to do so. The source indicated McMahon didn’t take the lack of follow-up personally and felt that Khan thought he was joking when bringing up running AEW. That same source said McMahon saw “his insight and abilities to run a show as valuable after witnessing years of fans a