How does one determine who is the best modern tag team in wrestling right now? Is it the top team in the top wrestling promotion in world, which would thus be The Usos of the WWE? Or maybe it's the team who has the most overall, unique title wins, a feat The Young Bucks have a pretty good case for, as they've won 21 unique belts in their career thus far. Or maybe it's the team who currently holds the most premium belts, say tag-team championships from three of the top five promotions in the wrestling world.
Mustafa Ali, the former leader of Retribution and current member of the RAW roster, announced to the greater Twitter world that he feels it's the latter and that FTR, his former fellow NXT standouts, are thus the best team in the world right now.
Is he right? Are the FTR boys Cash Wheeler and “Uncle” Dax Harwood the best in the business right now, or does another team have a better case for the prize? Well, considering Ali has wrestled in the ring with FTR on two occasions and trained with them for much longer, I'd say his opinion should hold some weight.
Yeah, yeah they are.
— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) July 10, 2022
FTR have a case for being the best tag team in wrestling today.
When FTR won the IWGP Tag Team Championship at Forbidden Door in a three-team bout that also featured Roppongi Vice and The United Empire's team of Great-O-Khan and Jeff Cobb, they made history – becoming the first team in wrestling history to win the WWE Tag Team Triple Crown, the AEW Tag Team Championship, the Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship, the Lucha Libre AAA World Tag Team Championship, and the IWGP Tag Team Championship.
Now granted, there have only been six AEW tag team champions to this point, and FTR are the only ones who also wrestled as a team in WWE, giving them a clear advantage in the historical rankings, but still, having the wherewithal, technical ability, and drawing power to hold the top tag team belts in three of the premier wrestling promotions in the world today – plus their much-beloved status as AEW's perennial number one contenders – is incredibly impressive, even in the modern world of wrestling where the Forbidden Door – at least outside of WWE – is wide open and the champions have a tendency to hold onto belts for an aggressively long time.
With a signature match on their resume in a six-star bout versus The Briscoes on Supercard of Honor 2022 and another match versus the duo set for Death Before Dishonor – plus FTR-The Young Bucks III coming at some point this year – there's a very real chance 2022 does go down as the year of FTR, with a chance to cement their legacy as the best tag team of this current era of wrestling history very much in their sights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcZjtUjrcU4
When the team then known as The Revival left WWE in favor of testing their mettle outside of Vince McMahon's company, some fans thought they were crazy. Their style was too traditional, they refused to do flips, and the prospects of a few fun matches might not have been worth walking away from generational wealth. Instead, FTR bet on themselves, adjusted their style, and became one of the best tag teams of all time while becoming unlikely babyfaces in the process. Maybe Mustafa Ali could have a similar glow-up when his contract expires too.
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