Massive Update on FTR’s Future With AEW in 2023

FTR’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler will be of AEW television for the foreseeable future, as confirmed by Harwood on the latest episode of his FTR podcast. Harwood confirmed with Fightul last month that their contracts with the company would be expiring in April and that they were considering leaving the promotion. In the weeks that followed the pair failed to win the AEW World Tag Team Championships and dropped the ROH, AAA and IWGP Tag Team Championships as part of an 0-5 losing streak. 

“Tony has been nothing but top-notch to me and Dan [Dax] since day one,” Harwood said (h/t Fightful). “There are things that we haven’t agreed on, as any boss and any employee, even any friend. There are times that I felt the boat was missed on opportunities for us. There were times that I was super happy with everything we were doing, but there has come a time where we are on the tail end of our career. Right now, at this point in our career, is the most important time in our career. I mean that monetarily, creatively, and personally. It is the most important time in our career. With that being said, we have asked and been granted the next few months off of television so we can sit back, reflect, decide, let out bodies heal, and figure out what we’re going to do for the next few years. Whatever we decide to do next will be the absolute last thing we do as far as wrestling.”

“By April, we will have an answer,” he continued. “I have to take my health, my family, my creativity, and I have to take my personal life all in consideration about what we’re going to do next. I know what I want to do, but whatever we do, I just want to be respected. I feel we have done something so special in 2022 and most of that is in part to the fans. We deserve to continue to build on our legacy for ourselves, but also we owe it to the fans to build on that legacy because they made us this past year. I’m not sure exactly how long we’ll be away. It may be all the way until the end of our contract. Our contract is up in April.”

Harwood and Wheeler debuted in AEW back in 2020 after choosing to let their WWE contracts expire. Do you think the two will re-sign with AEW or wind up back in WWE? Let us know in the comments!