FTR are one of a kind… despite some of the similarities they have to some legends of the past.
Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler of FTR recently appeared on the Casual Conversations with The Classic podcast and the current AAA World Tag Team Champions explained how they’ve often borrowed, but they’ve never outright stolen moves from other tag teams. Dax said that the nuances you often see in their matches are what make their matches great, and what made classic tag team matches work so well.
“We’ve ‘stolen,’ yes, but we haven’t stolen a tag team’s down-to-the-wire moves or move-sets or something like that. At one time there was a way different concept of tag team wrestling and the fans have been conditioned to what tag team wrestling is today. But the beauty of tag team wrestling is the nuances, the small things, how you have to work four guys into the match and work them in there in a legal way and you have to do it flawlessly and seamlessly. That slide thing you talked about, we stole that from Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch, they’d do the exact same thing and have the hold, maybe they’d roll him off, tag, and then slide in front to cut them off and that’s one of those little nuances.
“I think one of the best matches to see those nuances is the Brain Busters vs. Hart Foundation because you have four guys who are completely qualified in the ring but they’re not just doing moves, they’re integrating tag team stuff, we’re integrating our best friends and we’re coming in and working together to make this our moment. It’s not about hitting a move and kicking out and going ‘oh my God!’, it’s not about four guys in the ring for two minutes, you know what I mean? I hate to harp on that, but that’s what makes tag team wrestling different from singles wrestling.”
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