AEW’s Tony Schiavone is confident that Vince McMahon was prepared to hire him, just to keep him away from Tony Khan’s promotion.
On a recent edition of his “What Happened When” podcast, Schiavone spoke about working with the WWF in the early 1990s and how a return could have gone. He said,
“Who knows with the WWE, how long I would have stayed (in 1990) after that because I could have been fired like I would have been had I taken that job five years ago. I would have been fired almost immediately.
“There is no question. There is no question, in my mind, that Vince wanted me to come there to fire me. Yeah, I believe that.
“He wanted to hire me. I feel bad about Bruce [Bruce Prichard] because Bruce is in the middle of this and Bruce is a friend of mine and I believe anything Bruce tells me is legit and sincere. Vince wanted to hire me to keep me away from this upstart company AEW. COVID happened, they cut back, why not cut back on one of the newest guys that just arrived? There is no question I would have been let go.”
Schiavone has been with AEW since 2019. In addition to serving as a commentator for the company, he serves as a senior producer.
