Kevin Ku is one half of Violence Is Forever alongside Dominic Garrini, and they are arguably the best tag team in independent wrestling.
The duo has wrestled across the world and won titles in various promotions including BLP, SUP, DPW, ACTION, and more.
At Beyond Wrestling Heavy Lies The Crown 2022, VIF called out FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler), challenging them to a bout to settle the score and prove who is on top of the tag team division in wrestling.
Speaking to Jeremy Lambert & Stephen Jensen on The Spotlight, Ku reflected on the callout.
"They gave us an open mic and told us to say whatever I wanted and said if I wanted to talk about FTR, I could. So I said, 'Okay.' I don't know how many people know this, but that match was supposed to happen a couple of times last year, end of 2021 into 2022. Obviously, they're pretty busy, so it never worked out with their scheduled. So, we're waiting," he said.
Ku continued, "I keep a list of my phone of wrestling accomplishments, wrestling goals, and who I want to wrestle and who we want to wrestle as a tag team. They are right up there and they have been for a very long time since we realized they were taking independent bookings. There are a couple of companies where it was supposed to happen, I won't say who they are since it didn't happen there, so I don't want to put them on blast. It was supposed to happen at different companies, it just never worked out with their schedule. When we did extra work (at AEW) in Nashville, we actually talked to both of them and they were like, 'Yes, we want this happen, we're going to go speak to Tony Khan right now about taking more independent bookings.' That was right before they started winning all the tag team titles. Obviously, it was hard to take a random independent date with a tag team that Tony Khan knows nothing about."
VIF worked the February 16, 2022 AEW Dark: Elevation tapings.
When it was noted that Tony Khan likely knows who VIF are given that they've been booked for AEW, Ku replied, "I assume nothing. I'm good friends with people he's known and tape traded with back in the day. I'm sure that he watched a lot of wrestling, but I don't know how much he knows of us as actual wrestlers. I'm sure he's heard of us, but I don't know how much he actually knows of us. I fully believe that if he knew who we actually were, we would be there right now. That's not me trying to blow smoke up my own ass, I'm very confident that we are two of the best wrestlers, period, in the world right now. Look at our last year or two years. You can't touch that. We've been everywhere, we've done everything, and we haven't stopped. We never have an off-day. None of our matches are off days. We always go as hard as we can, doesn't matter if there are five fans or 6,000 fans. We will do everything we can."
FTR is the reigning AEW Tag Team Champions. Violence is Forever are the reigning DPW and SUP Tag Team Champions.
It is unknown if or when the two teams will meet in the ring.
Fans can check out the full interview with Ku in the video above.
