In a story released Saturday discussing the role politics is taking in both WWE and AEW, a sentence in the middle of the article confirmed what has been known for some time: that WBD owns a portion of AEW. The article on CNN’s website, an entity also owned by WBD, wrote within a paragraph that “(Warner Bros. In those non-confirms, Khan has made a point to note that he owns 100% of the decision-making within AEW. The question of how much WBD owns has not been answered, but if it was more than 10%, they would need to disclose that as they are a publicly traded company. It’s also unclear what rights they have with that ownership, whether the percentage they own increased with the latest media rights deal, and what would happen to the shares if AEW was to move to another media entity.

Source: CNN February 15, 2026 11:15 UTC