Former WWE Head Writer Vince Russo Thinks Vince McMahon Will Buy AEW

There have been plenty of crazy opinions about current events in the wrestling world over the years. What can you expect from such a crazy business?

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One of the craziest has taken place in recent weeks, but a new theory from one of the industry’s most polarizing personalities and analysts is giving the relevant opinion the opportunity to walk away with an entire dessert plate.

We recently reported that former WWE performer and empire heir Shane McMahon, son of disgraced ex-chairman Vince McMahon, has been exchanging messages with someone at competitor AEW.

The mystery person is said to be someone who worked for the McMahons in WWE for years and knows them well. He or she is also a mutual friend of famed announcer Jim Ross and his podcast partner Conrad Thompson and is said to have tried to convince Shane to become All Elite.

This turn of events set the Internet Wrestling Community alight and caused people to speculate and predict with some degree of aplomb that Shane McMahon would be heading to AEW. Mind you, there is no concrete evidence to suggest that he has had any serious discussions with any higher power, including owner Tony Khan, who he has reportedly never met.

Still, there are those, like former writer and performer Vince Russo, who see this story as a strong possibility. Russo, however, goes one step further. He thinks Shane will act as a Trojan horse for his father, who will strike and buy the company.

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“It’s happened before. (Buying AEW) could happen under Shane’s guise, that’s what I’m saying,” Russo said on a recent edition of Sportskeeda Wrestlebinge, referring to McMahon’s 2001 acquisition of WCW that culminated in a storyline war between family members.

Russo added that Vince McMahon would hide behind his universally beloved son to protect this psyop from damaging his reputation. “Shane is as clean as a whistle. Vince could be behind it and no one would know.”

Russo also used Mike Tyson as an example of the senior McMahon’s way of thinking and doing business. He claims that when Tyson was working with WWE in 1998, McMahon assigned his son to Tyson’s team in an attempt to woo the boxer. Vince McMahon wanted to be Tyson’s new manager.

That could be another great tale of wrestling lore that has a good chance of being joined in the annals of legend by the Shane-AEW story. The latter has many mitigating circumstances working against it, not the least of which is the health of the father-son relationship.

There is no indication that the two are still in touch after Vince’s scandals rocked the wrestling world and forced him to leave the company that was his life.

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