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When The Revival left WWE to shoot their shot on the indies, joining AEW under their long-term, tongue-in-cheek moniker FTR, they left a lot behind in order to earn their freedom. Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson? Gone. Their old theme song, “Southern Proud?” Gone too. Even the team’s finisher, the Shatter Machine, was renamed on […]

When Cody Rhodes left AEW to try his hand at WWE once more, it served as the ultimate test case of how Tony Khan’s company had changed the industry forever. After AEW effectively served as a safe space for creatively frustrated wrestlers who wanted to test their own ideas on a national stage, away from […]

In the same week FTR challenged The Gunns to a “we lose and we leave AEW forever” match on Dynamite, Dax Harwood decided to dedicate an episode of his podcast, FTR with Dax Harwood, to none other than the head booker and Chief Content Officer of WWE, Triple H, who was in charge of booking […]

Ever since Paul “Triple H” Levesque came to creative power within the WWE Univese, fans have been scouring the independent wrestling markets to determine which of “his guys” could be in play for a return to The Fed. So far, those dreams have largely and widely been answered, as WWE has brought back more than […]

When FTR, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, emerged at the end of the penultimate match at AEW Revolution to get into a little brawl with the once and current AEW World Tag Team Champions, The Gunns, it felt like a big deal. Sure, technically, Harwood had been priming fans for the return for weeks, noting […]

When the make-shift tag team of Orange Cassidy and Danhausen, technically wrestling under the Best Friends flag, were named as the final team for the Tag Team Fatal Fourway at Revolution alongside The Gunns, Triple J, and The Acclaimed, it came as a minor disappointment for fans desperate to see FTR make another run at […]

Though it’s almost been a year since Cody Rhodes made his re-debut in WWE at WrestleMania 38, stories continue to come out about his time in AEW, some of them good, some of them bad, some of them representing “what if” scenarios that fans will unfortunately never get a definitive answer to one way or […]

There was a time where FTR, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, returning to AEW on new contracts felt incredibly unlikely. The duo, mostly Harwood, consistently complained about the team’s lack of title shots despite being perennial number one contenders, the team began working more indie matches to supplement their lack of AEW television time, and […]

“D*mn y’all. I kinda miss wrestling.” – with these six words, Dax Harwood of FTR drew incredible speculation from fans across the professional wrestling world, with fans of AEW and even WWE wondering if there was some hidden message woven into the 7-star champion’s words. Asked about the tweet read around the world by Matt […]

In 2020, there wasn’t a more hotly anticipated match in AEW than the Young Bucks versus FTR. Finally, after years of anticipation, the two best tag teams in the world, at least according to general consensus, would finally take the ring to see who were the real top guys, and the fans both at home […]

With the tag team career of The Briscoes unfortunately over, fans have begun to look back at the tag team’s career, including their final three matches in Ring of Honor against FTR that were booked by Tony Khan. Initially working a match as champions following a tag team win at the final Pay-Per-View of the […]

Dax Harwood has an issue he’d like to address. Now granted, this isn’t a new or particularly rare thing, as, since the FTR member launched his FTR Podcast in place of William Regal’s The Gentleman Villian when he left for WWE, the 10-time champion has made it his mission to discuss seemingly everything he has […]

Though Vince McMahon hasn’t technically taken back the book from his son-in-law, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, just yet, his return to the Board of Directors has already shaken things up to a degree within the WWE Universe, with fans worried about the future, wrestlers worried that the company will sell to the Saudi Arabia Public […]

The Young Bucks and FTR are AEW’s oil and water; the former are fun, flashy, and frantic in the ring, with occasionally over-choreographed maneuvers, high-flying antics, and enough Superkicks to garner a cease and desist from HBK himself, whereas their formerly WWE foils represent tradition, legacy, and the old-school way of doing things. They like […]

There was a time when FTR’s number one contendership for the AEW Tag Team Championship was one of the biggest in-jokes among smart marks of professional wrestling. FTR outlasted The Lucha Brothers, Jurassic Express, The Young Bucks – who took the belts off of them in the first place – and Swerve in our Glory […]

After losing the Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship belts to The Briscoes at Final Battle and then dropping the Lucha Libre AAA belts to Hermanos Lee in their final match before Dragon Lee jumped ship to WWE as part of the NXT Brand, AEW’s FTR duo of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood entered NJPW […]

FTR, the podcast, has been the gift that keeps on giving for fans of AEW, WWE, and professional wrestling, period. Though the show only began during the penultimate week of 2022, with Dax Harwood taking over The Gentleman Villian podcast when William Regal jumped ship from AEW to WWE, the balder half of FTR the […]

With 2022 officially over, the “Year of FTR” has come to an end; two of their belts have been lost, first to The Briscoes and then Hermaons Lee at Lucha Libre Noche De Campeones, with a third potentially joining the legacy collection at Wrestle Kingdom 17, when they take on Chaos’ Bishamon in the middle […]

As 2022 comes to a close, folks are beginning to recap the year and discuss the biggest developments across the professional wrestling world. From Roman Reigns’ time atop the WWE Universe, to the announced return of Kenny Omega to New Japan Pro Wrestling, and even the return of Ring of Honor, no story has dominated […]

Serena Deeb hasn’t worked a professional wrestling match since all the way back in October, when she secured a win over Haley J on Dark Elevation. While there’s been no public acknowledgment of why Deeb has been missing, be it via injury, via other commitments, or simply a lack of creative ideas, her absence has […]

Dax Harwood is a lot of things; he’s an AEW superstar, a tag team specialist with two different championship belts around his waist, and as of December of 2022, he can add podcaster to his list of descriptors, as, with William Regal heading back to WWE, the man nicknamed “The Ax” is set to take […]

Ring of Honor 2.0 is the house The Briscoes and FTR built. Since returning with Supercard of Honor in April of 2022, Ring of Honor has fielded some pretty impressive matches, from Claudio Castagnoli’s matches with Chris Jericho to Wheeler Yuta’s matches with Daniel Garcia, and even the RUSH versus Dragon Lee match – which […]

Tony Khan, respectfully, you messed up: The Briscoes-FTR III really should have been the main event of Ring of Honor Final Battle, and frankly, that opinion really isn’t particularly controversial, as even Dave Meltzer called it one of the five best tag team matches of the 2022 calendar year alongside their first match at Ring […]

It’s here, it’s finally here; Ring of Honor Final Battle. Soon fans of the promotions will see how Tony Khan’s first calendar year as the head booker of the legendary promotion shakes out, which, if any, belts exchange hands on the show, and if the clever booker has any other surprises in store, maybe even […]

After effectively being banned from television due to deeply troubling homophobic comments from a decade prior, The Briscoes were inferred to on both AEW Dynamite and Rampage ahead of their big bout with FTR at Ring of Honor Final Battle. They enlisted The Gunns, Colton and Austin, to read off their Christmas cards to Dax […]

Though The Briscoes may be banned from television by Warner Bros Discovery – which is a story for another day – that doesn’t prevent them from sending others to do their work for them, as, immediately following their loss to The Acclaimed, the FTR duo of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood were challenged to a […]

FTR are arguably the most important tag team in professional wrestling right now. Sure, The Usos have been tag team champions in WWE for what 500 days – 505 to be exact – and the duo of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood aren’t even the tag team champions in their own company, that honor belongs […]

Dax Harwood is a fan of CM Punk. The duo worked together extensively during their shared time in AEW, with Punk’s first match after winning the AEW World Championship actually coming in trios action with FTR by his side, and even as the then-champ sat on the sidelines waiting to recover from injury, Harwood and […]

2022 has been the year of FTR or, more specifically, the year of Dax Harwood, the team’s follicly challenged heavy. Since leaving WWE and, really, since dropping the AEW World Tag Team Championships to the Young Bucks in July of 2021, Harwood has been on a tour de force across the professional wrestling world, with […]

Tony Khan books a ton of matches in any given week, month, or year. He has a roster of well over 100 wrestlers in AEW, and if Ring of Honor ultimately secures the television deal he’s been pining for, there’s a chance the overall number of in-ring performers he employs on some sort of contract […]

“Bret Hart has noted being greatly appreciative of FTR and C.M. Punk and other wrestlers for calling him the all-time best. The Calgary Hit Men hockey team sent all three jerseys a few months ago. Bret has been wearing FTR T-shirts. He can’t appear with AEW due to his legends contract so can only be […]

After wrestling his first “Premium Live Event” match at Crown Jewel since being released from WWE in June of 2021, Braun Strowman was feeling pretty sure of himself. Sure, his match wasn’t exactly a 60-minute Ironman contest between two champions, but his “Clash of the Titans” showdown against Omos drew strong enough reviews for its […]

On an otherwise insignificant Sunday night, “Uncle” Dax Harwood posted a message to his fans on Instagram featuring three pictures of previous NXT matches booked between The Revival and American Alpha – Chad Gable and Jason Jordan – that will certainly make wrestling fans both very confused indeed and a tad bit nervous about the […]

Who was the last tag team to debut in AEW and immediately make an impact on the division? Swerve in our Glory? I mean, sure, technically, that’s true, but the duo came into Tony Khan’s company as singles stars and only really started to find success working together when the booking gods forged their union. […]

There was a time in the pre-Dynamite, protohistory of AEW where one of the hottest feuds in the Pay-Per-View-only promotion was Cody not-yet-Rhodes, the “American Nightmare” babyface pitted against the “Chairman of AEW,” Shawn Spears. Though this feud didn’t quite come up to the same level as Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho vs. […]

Though the build-up may have been muddied by yet another backstage fight, with Andrade vs. Sammy Guevara the latest backstage battle to garner headlines across the greater sporting world, AEW: Battle of the Belts IV is officially here, and this time, it’s going to be a little different the previous runnings of the show. For […]

FTR haven’t wrestled on AEW television since Dynamite episode 152, when they wrestled alongside former Pinnacle member Wardlow in a trios match against Ren Jones, Vic Capri, and ex-Ring of Honor stalwart Silas Young. Now granted, they have been on AEW programming once since then, as the very same trio wrestled another long-time ROH member, […]

When discussing the best modern champions in professional wrestling, a few teams routinely come to mind. There’s the Young Bucks and FTR of AEW, The Usos of WWE, and even the Briscoe Brothers, who have wrestled for Impact and GCW in addition to their prolific run in Ring of Honor But one team who doesn’t […]

FTR are CM Punk’s boys in AEW. The trio teamed together in Punk’s first match post-Double or Nothing and were reportedly going to work together once more at Forbidden Door had the then-newly minted AEW World Heavyweight Champion not suffered an injury that required him to temporarily vacate his spot. So naturally, when the greater […]