Dax Harwood says FTR wants to bring tag team wrestling back to the main event scene.
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) are two-time AEW World Tag Team Champions, and they have also held titles in AAA, ROH, NJPW, and WWE. The duo did not win titles in 2023, and they are currently feuding with The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, PAC, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli).
Speaking on 3NT Wrestling, Dax Harwood reflected on 2024 and looked forward to 2025.
“I told [Cash] him in 2024, the beginning of this year, I said, ‘If we retired today, I’d be happy. I would be okay with what we’ve accomplished.’ So 2024, our goal was to try to help make wrestlers, to try to help make wrestlers, to try to help make younger stars. I don’t like getting into too much inside baseball, but if you look at our 2024, we lost more than we won. You could say that might’ve been by design because we wanted to help out as much as we could the company, but also help bring up these younger stars. So my idea in 2024 was to help bring up guys like RUSH, guys Iike Dralistico…Daniel Garcia, that was a big pet project of mine. I wanted to make sure, because I saw something in him, and I wanted to bring him home. But then also re-introduce guys who I think still are incredible wrestlers and are big stars for us. House of Black, I wanted to bring them up. So that was our gameplan for 2024. Now, 2025 is rolling around, and I feel like we might have done ourselves a disservice in 2024 by being maybe a little giving, keeping ourselves in the background a bit too much. 2025, I want to continue to build 2025, continue to build out television shows, continue to build our relationship with Max now, streaming on Max, but also selfishly, I want to remind people that FTR is the greatest tag team in the world. Even though we’ve got a little bit of age on us, I feel better physically than I ever have in my life, and I am ready to remind people what tag team wrestling is because unfortunately, I think maybe it took a step back this year, and I think it’s our job and our duty as FTR to bring tag team wrestling back to the main event scene," Harwood said.
FTR is set to face the Death Riders at AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen. More information is available here.
Harwood previously looked back on FTR's match with The Bang Bang Gang. Check out his comments here.
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