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NEWS - It’s Official: Warner Bros. Discovery Owns Part of AEW!

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Warner Bros. Discovery Owns Part Of AEW!

Jake Doyle Undergoes Successful Surgery!

NXT Favourite To Become A First-Time Father!

Ricky Morton Says “Nope” To One More Ric Flair Match?!


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0:00.0

On today's solo Sunday news confirmed Warner Bros. Discovery owns part of AEW.

0:07.0

Jay Doyle undergoes successful surgery.

0:10.0

Ricky Martin says, nope to one more Rick Flair match.

0:13.0

And then the next T favorite is to become a first-time parent.

0:16.0

Hello and welcome to what called your wrestling.

0:18.0

The solo Sunday news, myself, Andrew Pallad.

0:20.0

I hope you're well. I hope you're good and I hope your weekend is going as well as possible, up the end of the last 16 Reds, is all I will say. Right, starting things off with kind of a major story, but kind of something a lot of us had already presumed, but it's been confirmed that yes, Warner Brothers Discovery does indeed own a stake in AEW.

0:39.3

Now, this comes from an article on CNN's website, which was discussing politics in wrestling,

0:44.4

as in actual real-life politics, political stances, not the sort of politics where I say,

0:50.1

I don't know, Triple Age Berries, Rob Van Dam or Bucketty.

0:52.7

But in this article, there's an interesting line that outright states that Warner Brothers

0:56.8

Discovery owns a minority stake in AEW.

0:59.8

What gives this particular credence and legitimacy, of course, is that Warner Brothers Discovery,

1:04.7

as is noted in this article, is CNN's parent company.

1:08.0

So this is an article written on CNN by CNN, who are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

1:14.3

So this is legit as legit gets.

1:16.4

Now, it's not been revealed exactly how much of a stake WBD has in AEW, but it's seemingly

1:22.6

less than 10% because anything over 10% would, well, that would need to be publicly declared,

1:29.6

publicly disclosed due to WBD being a publicly traded company.

1:33.7

It's also not known what if any rights WBD have as part of this stake,

1:38.9

nor whether the stake increased as part of AW's latest media rights deal,

1:42.3

or what would happen should AEW at some

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