What's he making out of this though? Nothing's gonna happen, the status quo will remain. Both Tony Khan and WWE know they will never work together unless the companies merge.
I feel one thing that could come out of it to AEW's benefit is stoking the fire under their diehards who love any excuse to shit on WWE. They're probably having a field day talking about "WWE are too scared to work with AEW" or some shit like that which isn't even true of course but the tribalism takes over. It gets their troops riled up. So maybe it's more of a retention method.
Ultimately though the biggest catch for me is that the question was posed to him, and he didn't do the super safe corporate thing and downplay the possibility even though anyone who has been watching wrestling for a good amount of time knows it's never gonna fucking happen. That's why I feel it's more of an in-character response than anything. Either way I just don't see this reflecting badly on AEW. I think if you wanna be big timers, you gotta act the part... Fake it til you make it, once again. That's where I stand on it.
I'm watching.
