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Ex-WWE & AEW Tag Champions Step Away From Wrestling

By Sunil Joseph • Published Jun 21, 2026 09:34 EDT
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Former WWE and AEW champions are stepping away from wrestling.

FTR is widely regarded as one of the greatest tag teams of this generation. They have competed for every major promotion in the world and have won tag team championships everywhere they have gone.

Currently, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler are signed to AEW, where they have been a regular feature on TV ever since they signed with the company a few years ago. They even won the AEW World Tag Team Championships three times. They recently held the Tag Titles before they lost them to Adam Copeland and Christian Cage at Double or Nothing 2026. Now, it looks like they are finally taking a break from everything.

AEW star Dax Harwood announces FTR will be stepping away

Dax Harwood recently took to Instagram to post a couple of pictures with his family while he was on vacation. He said that he and Cash Wheeler have been working tirelessly since 2014 and have become physically and mentally exhausted. He also said that they have worked on both Collision and Dynamite for a while. He also listed a bunch of injuries he has been dealing with. Therefore, he announced that FTR will be stepping away for the first time in 12 years, and he’s not sure when they will be back.

“Since the summer of 2014, The Revival, FTR, Dawson & Dash, Dax & Cash, whatever you want to call us, we’ve had the pedal to the floor. Aside from my bicep tear in 2017, we’ve taken no time away from the job we’ve dreamed of having. Physically & mentally, we both became exhausted.

We were two of the very few talents that traveled and worked on both Collision & Dynamite. I’ve fought through 3 hematomas on my lower back, another bicep tear I decided not to have surgery on, labrum tear from my groin to my hip, a shoulder that needs replacement, and probably a laundry list of other things I’m too afraid to get checked out haha.”

For the first time in 12 years, we’ve decided to step away and take some time for ourselves & for our families. I’m not sure when we’ll be back, what we’re going to do, how much longer we have, or if we even need to prove anything at all anymore.”

Check out his post here.

It will be interesting to see whether FTR will return to the ring after this break.

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