FTR finally returned from their hiatus at AEW Revolution on Sunday night. The pair went on a five-match losing streak in late 2022, losing the IWGP, AAA and ROH tag titles, failing to win back the AEW World Tag Team Championships and taking an upset loss against The Gunns. Dax Harwood then announced that he and Cash Wheeler had asked for time off from TV as both men consider their futures in the business. Harwood has since repeatedly talked about their contracts on his FTR podcast, mentioning how their current deals with AEW expire in April.
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The Gunns successfully retained their tag titles at Revolution, beating The Acclaimed, Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal and Orange Cassidy & Danhausen in a four-way. They then declared themselves the best tag team on the planet and demanded respect from the crowd, prompting FTR’s music to play. The pair hit a Spike Piledriver and a Big Rig before dropping the tag titles on the unconscious champs.
“Tony has been nothing but top-notch to me and Dan [Dax] since day one,” Harwood said on FTR back in January. “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.”
