FTR are sticking around in All Elite Wrestling for many years to come.
AEW World Tag Team Champions Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler recently sat down with Raj Prashad of Uproxx to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about their decision to remain with the company, Wheeler said All Elite Wrestling is where they want to cement their legacy and they appreciate the freedom that comes along with working there.
“AEW is home, this is where we want to cement our legacy, and I think this is going to be our definitive run right here,” Cash Wheeler said. “To be able to go to Japan and do what we’ve done, to go to Mexico and do what we’ve done, to go work for these independents and do stuff with Bret (Hart), to do stuff that we’ve had on our bucket list, that from 2014 to 2020 was not even possible.
“There’s so much more we can do and we wanted to do. There’s more to wrestling than one company. I love getting to go in front of 2,000 people, 20,000 people, whatever it is, as long as they care and they love what we do. It’s the passion that these fans bring to us that really helped elevate us to where we are now. So it’s hard to say bye.”
Harwood noted that the “uncertainty” surrounding Vince McMahon’s potential return to the company “helped”, but he stated that the duo made their decision prior to the announcement of WWE’s deal with Endeavor. He also highlighted their relationship with AEW CEO Tony Khan as an important factor.
“I think that Tony gets Dax and Cash, FTR, better than Vince,” Dax Harwood said. “I think he understands that we are average, everyday human beings that just caught on with the fans because they can relate to us, because we’re either family men or just regular human beings. We just enjoy physicality and we enjoy fighting, and I think that they can live their lives through us.
“(Vince has) a business track record that proves that he is obviously very intelligent to the business, but I think he thinks he knows what the Revival was better than we did. That’s why he came up with all those cartoon costumes he gave us. In contrast, Tony understands that no one knows who we are better than us, and no one can display our characters or show our characteristics better than we can.”
Wheeler also chimed in on this line of thinking and touches on his relationship with Tony Khan compared to Vince McMahon or Triple H.
“The conversations we have with Tony, the relationship we have with Tony compared to [Triple H] or Vince, we get along well with both those guys over there,” Cash Wheeler said. “Vince, to our faces anyway, was always very respectful, respected our work. Same with Hunter. But with Tony, I feel like we can have open, honest discussions with him about how we feel, where we think we need to change something or pivot. And I know that he’s receptive to it.”
Harwood says he’s very fortunate that FTR chose to remain in All Elite Wrestling and that his family has been very supportive of this decision. Dax is hopeful that by the time their run is said and done, they will be one of the greatest tag teams of all time.
“I’m very glad and very fortunate that we made the decision to stay here in AEW. My family is very happy and very supportive of that because now I get to be home and go to Finley’s soccer games and dance practice and gymnastic meets and things like that,” Harwood said. “And overall, in the next few years, FTR will be able to continue to cement our legacy and hopefully, and I say this with humility, hopefully go down as at least one of the greatest tag teams of all time.”
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