Tony Khan placed a bid for WWE during 2023 sale process

Tony Khan placed a bid of $6.9 billion on WWE in 2023 when the company was up for sale according to a report from Brandon Thurston of Post Wrestling. Khan placed the bid through his company Base 10. Khan’s bid was the lowest out of the four companies that placed bids. Endeavor, which eventually became TKO Group Holdings, eventually acquired WWE with a bid of $8.5 billion.

The information comes from recently unredacted court filings from November 2023 that are part of the ongoing WWE shareholder lawsuit that questions the process by which Endeavor eventually acquired WWE. Khan isn’t mentioned by name in the documents, but the documents mention that the owner of Base 10 is also the owner of AEW that would “enjoy significant synegies with WWE.”