Report: Shane McMahon Has Tried To Return To WWE, Company Not Interested

Shane McMahon has tried to return to WWE since WrestleMania 39 but the company has no interest in bringing him back due to "a lot of negativity", according to a new report from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio.

While discussing Shane McMahon's meeting with AEW CEO Tony Khan from earlier this week, Meltzer said:

"I know Shane McMahon has looked to get back in WWE. I know that the people in charge of WWE have no interest in him. Could that change with the idea that he would be willing to go to AEW? Maybe, maybe not...Shane got a lot, a lot of money if you compare the amount of money Shane got for the amount of work that he did when he was an active few-times-a-year pro wrestler. It was a really high number."

Meltzer later noted it wouldn't surprise him if the meeting with Tony Khan was simply part of a plan for Shane McMahon to try and return to WWE.

"Is it a leverage play for him to try to get back in WWE? Wouldn't surprise me at all but I know from people in WWE, yeah, like I said, he's tried to get back and they don't have interest. There's a lot of negativity, I would say, has been there for a long time," Meltzer stated.

"His coming back, it wasn't like when he was gone they were begging him to come back. Linda pushed very, very hard for a long time for him to come back and they took him back because there was injuries and they knew him and Undertaker was going to do business."

Shane McMahon and AEW CEO Tony Khan met at a private Arlington airport on Monday, July 29 and discussed "possibilities moving forward." The meeting came about after McMahon reached out to people in AEW about potentially making an appearance in the promotion, with Khan said to be "very open" about using Shane when asked about him at recent AEW TV tapings.

McMahon has since issued a statement about his "great" meeting with Khan. McMahon's WWE deal expired at some point after WrestleMania 39.

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