AEW: Tony Khan in France for Meeting with Warner Bros Discovery, Jim Ross on Shane McMahon & Tony Khan Meeting, Lucha Bros Files New Trademarks

Aug 3, 2024

Tony Khan Traveled to France to Meet with Warner Bros Discovery for Talks

As noted before, AEW CEO Tony Khan was scheduled to travel to Paris, France this weekend to meet with Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav for talks regarding AEW’s new potential media rights deal. AEW’s exclusivity window with WBD for talks had expired earlier this week.

Khan provided an update on Twitter stating that he had traveled to France and arrived in Paris on Friday.

It's my first time ever in Paris!
I'm grateful to be here, thank you @wbd @TNTdrama @TBSNetwork!

A great weekend of wrestling kicks off in Timecop Territory TONIGHT:
Friday Night #AEWRampage on TNT
10pm ET/9pm CT
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Saturday Night #AEWCollision TOMORROW at
5pm ET/4pm CT/5pm PT!
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) August 2, 2024

Jim Ross Comments on Shane McMahon & Tony Khan Meeting in Arlington

As noted before, Shane McMahon and AEW CEO Tony Khan held a private meeting this past Monday in Arlington, Texas to discuss “possibilities moving forward” in regards to McMahon potentially working for AEW in the future.

A recent episode of the Grilling JR podcast featured co-host Jim Ross giving his thoughts about McMahon and Khan’s recent meeting and the potential help that McMahon could provide to AEW.

“If Shane could help us, help AEW, then Tony would hire him, and Shane would accept the offer. I had never seen that picture [of Khan and McMahon meeting]. That’s surprising. That’s pretty cool, actually. Shane, he could add a lot. He could do some physical things, within reason. He has great name identity. People who know he is. You don’t have to stop and explain, ‘This is Vince McMahon’s son.’ That goes without saying. But if Tony’s an entrepreneur, and if he thought that Shane could help us in AEW, and if Shane thought he could have some fun, make a couple of paydays, I’m sure Shane is not in need of a significant cash influx, but he wants to have fun and contribute. Look, the wrestling business is in Shane’s blood. Where else does he go if he wants to stay in that vocation? I’m a Shane McMahon fan. I like him. I’ve known him since he was in high school. He’s full of piss and vinegar, always, to the point of being almost humorous at times, but he’s smart. Again, the audience, our target audience knows who the hell he is. He’s got a good reputation. If he does come there to work for Tony and AEW…where else does he go if he wants to stay in the pro wrestling business. I think he could help us in a lot of ways, strategically, as a TV character, obviously the main thing. So we’ll just have to wait and see how that works out. I don’t have any outstanding hope or any inside info that he’s the guy, but he might be a new addition at some point in time. If so, between both their creative abilities, he would be entertaining.”

Transcript h/t: Figthtful.com