I can’t imagine what it would be like to care about Shane McMahon in 2024
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Shane McMahon absolutely isn’t a pull in 2024
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Personally, I’d pop seeing a McMahon in AEW.
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That’s quite a homoerotic sentence
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The McMahon name is tarnished. They’ll never get a “pop” anymore
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With the stupid stuff AEW does that wrestlers get hurt from. Shane McMahon might actually die. This ain’t a great idea.
Their owner is so obsessed with WWE he’s bringing the son of a disgraced ex owner on board.
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If Shane o Mac is at All In, that’s going to get some serious traction.
Only with people who watch AEW anyway.
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Shane McMahon has never been a considerable draw even at his very best. He’s not a needle over so at most you’ll get some nerdy marks on Twitter “popping” about it and then it’ll become largely irrelevant news lol
While I agree on the whole, at his very best, a couple of his matches were headliners (with Kane at Survivor Series, Undertaker at Mania and with Angle at a Summerslam). That’s not to mention McMahon v McMahon at WM17 with that innovative coast-to-coast move.
If that picture wasn’t released, I’m certain that the reaction for Shane appearing at All In would have been even bigger.
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As memorable as some of those were, none of them ever drew a pay per view buy or sold a ticket. Nobody has ever bought anything because Shane was on the card.
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Some might. We can’t say “nobody”. I certainly wouldn’t if Shane was going for the title, for instance.
People would have bought tickets for Summerslam, Survivor Series and Wrestlemania anyway. Shane gave us some wow moments in each of his matches. In our current day of “trending”, he’d have been right up there.
I do think AEW have a certain “knack” of introducing a new wrestler at a PPV. It would be very interesting to see how they’d do that for Shane at All In (if they do it at all. I’m guessing at the moment)
Yeah, I think it’d be big moment if he shows up the first time(if it happens) but that’d be it.
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Agreed. Beyond that, it’d be difficult. AEW can’t even “General Manager” him like Bischoff. They don’t have the capacity (in more ways than one)
AEW are a firm second to WWE when it comes to debuting new talent.
I think it speaks volumes to the relative health of both organisations that WWE is drawing huge crowds and gates, their creative is the strongest it’s been for years and AEW are scrabbling for engagement by trying desperately to get an appearance from a washed up son of a disgraced CEO.
AEW is done. Good chance it doesn’t exist in a few more years.
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If we’re citing the old PPV’s. Then we have to cite angles like the WCW invasion in which Shane McMahon (and Stephanie) did fuck all to improve the product despite being a central figures. Stone Cold had to try save that shit.
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Everyone knows the Invasion angle, and everything that went on with it, was shit.
Can’t be levelled at Shane. Even Heyman couldn’t salvage that.
Absolutely you can level some of it at Shane. Stone Cold joined the Alliance and started carrying the promos. That was their attempt at another McMahon family feud but the only McMahon people ever cared about was Vince.
Shane’s is only popular for 1) high flying spots 2) getting beaten up by everyone. In any other scenario we call him a jobber.
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“Some of it”, yes.
Austin became weak as part of the Alliance. He was weak with WWE beforehand. The writing was on the wall with that angle even well before Survivor Series.
It was a shit storyline using scrubs from WCW (many of whom WWE still shamelessly embarrassed).
Makes my blood boil.