For months, FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) had been building up the idea that they may leave AEW and potentially return to WWE when their contract expires in April. They also teased working on the independent scene for a year.
Last week, they put their AEW careers on the line against The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) for a shot at the AW Tag Team Championships. FTR walked away with the gold and will remain in AEW.
Last week, Harwood seemingly indicated that FTR never planned to leave AEW for WWE.
While speaking to Raj Prashad of Uproxx, Harwood said that they believe AEW/ROH President Tony Khan gets them better than Vince McMahon does.
“I think that Tony (Khan) gets Dax and Cash, FTR, better than Vince,” Harwood said. “I think he understands that we are average, everyday human beings that just caught on with the fans because they can relate to us, because we’re either family men or just regular human beings. We just enjoy physicality and we enjoy fighting, and I think that they can live their lives through us. (Vince has) a business track record that proves that he is obviously very intelligent to the business, but I think he thinks he knows what the Revival was better than we did. That’s why he came up with all those cartoon costumes he gave us. In contrast, Tony understands that no one knows who we are better than us, and no one can display our characters or show our characteristics better than we can.”
Wheeler added that the talks they had with Khan and their relationship with him, compared to Triple H or McMahon, is different as they feel they can have open and honest conversations with Khan. He did make it a point to note that McMahon and Triple H were always very respectful to them.
