FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) are finally set to clash with The Briscoes (Mark & Jay Briscoe) at ROH Supercard of Honor on Friday for the ROH Tag Team Championships.
The two began feuding through a series of social media promos that led to FTR showing up at ROH Final Battle in December to confront the Briscoes.
Speaking to Connor Casey of Comic Book, FTR say there was no planned match when the promos started.
"So, I'll tell you that there was no plan," Wheeler confirmed. "The plan is there was no plan. It was just... I think it just started over a couple of tweets, really. There has always been the chatter, because they are who they are, we are who we are and fans appreciate good tag team wrestling. And they know that those two teams are going to give you that. So, the chatter has already been there and then it just... I think maybe Dax and Jay went back and forth on Twitter. And from there it just... The videos started happening and we didn't know if we respond for a little bit. And then we decided, 'You know what? Let's respond. Let's put them in their place.' And then Final Battle got the approval, and we're like, 'Okay, we're really cooking here.' And then everything just had to... The brakes had to be pumped, and then we didn't know if it was going to happen at all. And so, we just kind of... Back and forth. A lot of uncertainty, and then we finally got the final word maybe a day before the fans did. Honestly. We knew about a day before it was announced, and that was it."
Harwood added to the conversation by saying, "I think that the word hype is completely the wrong word to use. Because there was no hype going on. There was no... The stuff that we were saying and we were doing wasn't for promotional material or to hype anything up. It was two tag teams, maybe specifically at the time, two guys who thought their tag team was the best. There was, like Cash said, a lot of chatter. A lot of dream and fantasy booking between FTR and the Briscoes. And I think they think they're the greatest. We think we're the greatest. If someone ever says something about me or Dan... Or, sorry. Excuse me. Someone says something about me or Cash, it gets me riled up a little bit. In real life and in wrestling, especially if you think you're better than us. So I had to, we had to rebuke... We decided for a while, we weren't going to say anything. We were going to let them just go on their little rants and not touch it at all. But you know what? We were getting tired of it. Let's do it. Let's put them in their place."
The Briscoes are the reigning ROH Tag Team Champions and captured the GCW Tag Team Championships at Joey Janela's Spring Break 6 Part 1 on Thursday. FTR are is the reigning AAA Tag Team Champions.
Fightful will have coverage of ROH Final Battle beginning at 7 p.m. ET with the pre-show on Friday.
