During an appearance on the most recent Coach and Bro Show with Jonathan Coachman and Vince Russo, AEW head Tony Khan spoke on several topics, including the return of Chris Jericho and his (Khan’s) bid to purchase WWE.
On the return of Chris Jericho to AEW and if he wanted to go to WWE:
“I can’t say with any certainty. I do know that Chris had a choice, and he wanted to be in AEW. He would be the best person to ask. But I know that I’ve been in communication with Chris. He told me he definitely wanted to be in AEW and very specifically in Winnipeg on that date. We’ve had that circled for a long time going back to last year. It was a choice that Chris made, rather being in AEW than wrestling anywhere else, and I think that’s awesome. So I can’t say for sure Coach exactly what his mind was or what he was thinking but he definitely has been consistent that he loves AEW and that he wants to be here and I’m glad he chose to be in AEW and that’s a choice he made because he was a free agent.”
Jericho returned to AEW last Wednesday, after almost a one-year absence. He will address his return on this Wednesday’s Dynamite.
On his bid to purchase WWE:
“I was very interested in the process and I think that if there was going to be a sale, I would at least wanted a chance to be involved. If it had gone for any less than that, I would have really kicked myself. While respecting the confidentiality of that, I would say I don’t have any complaints about that process from my side right now. While respecting the confidentiality of the whole thing, I also would say that, at the time, that seemed like to me, just reiterating, if it had gone for any less I would have kicked myself. Why wouldn’t you put in a bid. I thought it was a very reasonable number.”
Khan bid $6.9 million to purchase WWE.
On meeting Shane McMahon in 2024:
“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 recognizable face in Sports and the world of wrestling, where any wrestling fan would recognize him. So that could be what it is, someone recognized 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. 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”
You can watch the full interview below:
Quote source: F4WOnline