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NEWS - The Truth About Tony Khan Buying WWE REVEALED!

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WhatCulture Wrestling

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Andy and Adam are here with today’s wrestling news, unpacking the story that AEW’s Tony Khan bid to buy WWE in 2023 from every possible angle...


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0:00.0

Hello there, my very good friends on today's wrestling news.

0:03.7

What the heck else are we going to talk about other than Tony Canne bidding to buy

0:08.4

WWE in Big 2023?

0:11.2

We're going to break all of this, every single aspect of this story down.

0:15.3

My name is Andy H. Murray.

0:16.9

The H stands for Harvey Whippleman. There you go. a second there I'm Adam Wilborn There's a bat Harvey's out there man You can't be doing that Dent Yeah he's the worst He's really two-faced That guy What a jerk Anyway, this is the news Anyway let's kick this one off I was going to go for Herb Abrams. I did Herb Dean yesterday. Save him for the afternoon. We've got other stories, but this is kind of unique to, this deserves its own story. But actually, that's kind of, you know, the other Harvey's kind of appropriate because Tony Cam once called WWW. The Harvey Weinstein of wrestling. It did. In one of his funniest moments, I think. But yes, look, this is a bombshell

0:56.2

story and it was dropped by Brandon Fursten. That's how you drop stuff. Excellent work, as always.

1:01.6

Yeah, Brandon's done an incredible bit of journalism here to find out that Tony Cannes was one of the

1:05.9

bidders effectively for WWE in 2023. Now, it wasn't just Tony Cannahn opening up his pocket money and going, yeah, I fancy that.

1:13.6

It was a company that he backs.

1:15.6

It's called Base 10, right?

1:16.6

So he bid for the company when it was up for sale in 2023, according to court filings.

1:22.6

Now, this was a merger and acquisition, obviously, that ultimately led to Endeavour buying WW and merging it with the UFC under TKO group.

1:32.9

An acquisition that has proved quite controversial because it is currently the subject of a lawsuit, which we'll get into as well.

1:39.7

But good news, because without that, we wouldn't know this.

1:42.0

Exactly.

1:42.5

So the complaint, which was originally

1:45.8

filed in Delaware in November 2023, has been unredacted. Right. So new information has come to light.

1:53.2

There's a bunch of different things in here and there's a bunch of like the, there are some

1:58.5

responses where they are denying the accusations of wrongdoing in the lawsuit,

2:03.5

the allegations of wrongdoing in this takeover, WWE and TKOR.

2:08.3

But they do affirm the identity of the bidders when Vince put WW up for sale shortly after

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