FTR Pledges to Help Elevate Young Tag Teams in AEW

AEW has a locker room full of younger talent, and they need direction. It is up to the veterans on the roster to help those people out, and find their way in pro wrestling. FTR is ready for that task.

The Top Guys discussed this matter in a recent interview with Jeff Snyder of WAVY-TV 10. Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have been through a lot, and they want to help others out.

During the conversation, they shared their goals after deciding to extend their contract with AEW last year. Dax Harwood emphasized that winning championships is a positive achievement, but working alongside younger tag teams and providing them with valuable experience alongside one of the top teams globally will enhance the longevity of the promotion’s tag division.

Of course our goal is to continue being the greatest tag team of all time, but there comes a time when your body physically, you start to break down a bit. I don’t want to say we’re breaking down, but there’s going to come a time where we cannot perform at the level we are now. So I think, for me at least, our goal is to continue to help build AEW, to continue to help build with the young guys that we have as the base of AEW and continue to push that youth movement that we need to carry our legacy. We could sit here and take over all the airwaves, all of the TV time, and all of the tag team matches and championships, we could, but in five, six, seven, ten years, we’re going to be gone, and who’s gonna take over? So that’s our goal, that’s my goal now is to continue to help build that future of AEW, continue to help make it competition for WWE, but all the while, of course I’d like to make a whole bunch of money and win some championships.

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Cash Wheeler continued, as he spoke about FTR’s intentions. They want to help others, and tag teams, improve what they present in the ring. They’ve already done so much to knock a few items off their bucket list.

Yeah, Dax pretty much answered it exactly how I was going to. Cause I feel like for us, we’re kind of in a weird stage of our careers where we still have time left and there’s still things we want to do, but we’ve accomplished, like you said, as much as we could have ever hoped. As far as the things I had on my career bucket list, we’ve far surpassed that at this point. I still want to do those things for us, but I want to focus on helping the next generation of young tag teams. I really want to focus on building up Collision, I want to focus on building up AEW as a whole.

Anything we can do to help bring eyes to Saturday Nights, I want to do. Anything we can do to help bring eyes to AEW, I want to do but I’d like to be ten star FTR somehow, whatever that would end up being because there is still the TNA Tag Titles we’ve never won, maybe a few others. I wouldn’t mind doing a world tag league also, just one. We didn’t get a chance to when we were the [IWGP] tag champions because schedules didn’t match up and if we had [done it], we would have never had that Dog Collar match, so things worked out as they should. It’s a weird place right now because we both want to help the company and the next generation of tag teams, but we still want to be the greatest tag team in the world.

FTR have long been considered one of the best tag teams in the business. They proved that by covering themselves in gold, and they did so for a while. This is nothing new for them, and they have also made a valid point that they don’t even need titles at this point for people to know their worth.

Only time will tell what is next for FTR, but they’ve done well in AEW after their ally CM Punk departed. For more on this story, and so many more, please keep checking back with us here at Ringside News.

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