Dax Harwood Admits Tag Team Wrestling “Took A Step Back” In 2024
Dax Harwood is looking to re-establish tag team wrestling in 2025.
FTR enjoyed a dominant 2022, but they captured tag team gold just once in 2023 before going the entirety of 2024 without a Tag Team Title win.
Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler began the year feuding with the Blackpool Combat Club, and they’re going to end it at war with the latest incarnation of the group, the Death Riders.
During an appearance on 3NT Wrestling, Harwood looked back on 2024, revealing that he and Wheeler made a conscious decision to elevate as much young talent as possible. But he explained that maybe they stepped too far back at times, something that needs fixing going into 2025.
“I told [Cash] him in 2024, the beginning of this year, I said, ‘If we retired today, I’d be happy. I would be okay with what we’ve accomplished.’ So 2024, our goal was to try to help make wrestlers, to try to help make wrestlers, to try to help make younger stars.
I don’t like getting into too much inside baseball, but if you look at our 2024, we lost more than we won. You could say that might’ve been by design because we wanted to help out as much as we could the company, but also help bring up these younger stars.
So my idea in 2024 was to help bring up guys like RUSH, guys Iike Dralistico…Daniel Garcia, that was a big pet project of mine. I wanted to make sure, because I saw something in him, and I wanted to bring him home. But then also re-introduce guys who I think still are incredible wrestlers and are big stars for us. House of Black, I wanted to bring them up. So that was our gameplan for 2024.
Now, 2025 is rolling around, and I feel like we might have done ourselves a disservice in 2024 by being maybe a little giving, keeping ourselves in the background a bit too much. 2025, I want to continue to build 2025, continue to build out television shows, continue to build our relationship with Max now, streaming on Max, but also selfishly, I want to remind people that FTR is the greatest tag team in the world.
Even though we’ve got a little bit of age on us, I feel better physically than I ever have in my life, and I am ready to remind people what tag team wrestling is because unfortunately, I think maybe it took a step back this year, and I think it’s our job and our duty as FTR to bring tag team wrestling back to the main event scene,”
Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler Tease AEW Reunion
Harwood and Wheeler are currently out of action after being attacked by Jon Moxley and the Death Riders, however, they have a plan.
On a recent episode of Dynamite, the pair said they’d be cleared to fight the group at Fight For The Fallen on January 1st, although they won’t be coming alone.
This sparked speculation that Adam Copeland could join the duo on Dynamite, and it’s since been reported that the veteran is expected to make his return on the show. Copeland has been out of action since breaking his leg at Double or Nothing.
H/t to Fightful