Update on the internet speculation surrounding Shane McMahon potentially working with AEW

Over the past several days, there has been internet speculation surrounding Shane McMahon potentially working with AEW. During the Grilling JR podcast, Conrad Thompson said the following to Jim Ross about the idea of Shane in AEW…

“There was a friend of ours, I shouldn’t say their name, but he went out of his way to text me and say, ‘Hey, that’s not as crazy as you think. I know for sure that Shane McMahon has reached out to wrestlers on the AEW roster to at least hypothetically discuss the idea.'”

In regards to the situation, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com noted the following…

“I can only say on the AEW side, people who in theory should have an inkling about it, have said they’ve either heard nothing, or said they heard what Thompson said but heard nothing independently about it. Tony Khan’s comment was ‘I’ve never met him or talked to him in my life.’ One person noted to us that there was a conversation between McMahon and an ex-WWE talent in AEW and it was described as not a pitch to get in or anything, just two people chatting when McMahon said something to the effect of ‘Can you imagine if I walked out there on Dynamite?’, not as if he was pitching anything.”