During his appearance on The Coach & Bro podcast, Tony Khan also discussed the meeting he had with Shane McMahon a couple of years ago in Texas, which sparked a big rumor online that McMahon was going to appear on AEW television.

Khan said it was McMahon who reached out to him to get together and they eventually met at an airport in Dallas, a meeting which Khan described as having a pleasant conversation.

The AEW President was surprised that a photo was published from the meeting.

“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 told Coach and Russo.

He theorized that since Shane is a very recognizable face in the world of sports, someone could have seen them in the room and snapped the picture.

“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,” he said.

Khan described Shane as a “really interesting guy” and the two had a nice talk together but didn’t come out of the meeting thinking that Shane wanted to be an on-screen character on AEW television.

“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,” Khan continued.