With their newest pay-per-view having taken place within the New York Metropolis Metropolitan Space, the AEW roster spent the weekend touring by one of many crossroads of the world — LaGuardia Airport. Merely passing by it might result in rubbing elbows with anybody from celebrities to former co-workers, such was the case for Shane McMahon and one among AEW’s high champions.
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In line with PWInsider, Mercedes Mone (fka Sasha Banks) was seen chatting with to McMahon on the Queens airport. There isn’t any confirmed phrase on what the 2 talked about, although one PWI supply claimed that they had a dialog about AEW.
McMahon has been within the information cycle as of late as a consequence of rumors swirling about his doable participation in AEW; CEO Tony Khan has confirmed that, whereas he hasn’t spoken to McMahon straight, Shane can be welcome within the firm. McMahon is now not beneath contract with WWE (his latest look in WWE 2K24 was performed beneath a earlier settlement) and hasn’t wrestled commonly since 2019, with his most most up-to-date look (and quick knee harm) coming at WWE WrestleMania 39 final yr. Shane being the son of disgraced former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, although Shane is on no account talked about in the present intercourse trafficking investigation in opposition to his father.
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Mone gained the NJPW STRONG Ladies’s Championship on Sunday, defeating Stephanie Vaquer at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door and basically ending her story, as she was injured within the match to crown the inaugural champion in Could 2023 — a match she was presupposed to win — resulting in a prolonged absence which lasted till she signed with AEW earlier this yr. She can be the AEW TBS Champion.
