FTR Reacts To Jake Hager's Claim About Tony Khan Incident At AEW Talent Meeting

FTR says Jake Hager isn’t being truthful about a recent tale he told.

Hager, who recently announced his retirement from pro wrestling, told Chris Van Vliet about some of his issues with working for Tony Khan in AEW. According to Hager, Khan “stormed in” to an all-talent meeting after CM Punk’s tenure came to an end.

Hager says this was supposed to be a talent-only meeting, but Khan, who he called “Daddy’s little billionaire,” came storming in and yelled at them. He also said FTR’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler might have been a team that refused to do a storyline.

Jake Hager says Tony Khan treated him like a plaything instead of a wrestler

“And lo and behold, who comes in the room storming in? Daddy’s little billionaire. And he’s yelling at us because—I think it was Dax and Cash—didn’t want to come in. They didn’t like the storyline so they refused to come to TV that day. And he was like, ‘Listen, I’ll put you in a six-man, six minutes before the show, and you’re gonna do it!’ And we’re all just—all feeling disrespected. I still to this day wish I would’ve stood up and said a lot of things. You just told Sting that you’re gonna put him in a six-man in six minutes, and then you’re gonna honor him for his retirement?

“We became his little playthings. We had to wait outside his office. His storylines were very good at debuting, but he could never carry anything through. It got to the point where you couldn’t tell him anything. He couldn’t take criticism, he was f*cking up, and we were all just having to dealing with it. We all had blood, sweat, and tears put into that company. We were all there at the beginning, we all had our careers behind us that helped build that company. And then we all had to just sit side-by-side and couldn’t do anything because he wanted to run it the way he wanted to run it.”

FTR says Hager’s story didn’t happen, and they didn’t refuse to work

Dax Harwood saw Hager’s comments and said not only did they attend the meeting in question, but they’ve never refused to show up to work.

“Cash and I were at the all-talent only meeting that was called by Bryan, Jericho, and Mox. Tony never interrupted,” Harwood wrote on Twitter. “Cash and I have NEVER refused to show up to work and, I’d to dare say, if you look at our schedules since Collision started, we’re the most consistent talent that make BOTH shows EVERY WEEK. Im not really sure where all this is coming from, but it’s mostly not true.”

Furthermore, Harwood’s partner, Cash Wheeler, posted a screenshot of a new conversation with Hager. According to Hager, he said “he thought” it was FTR in the meeting. Wheeler pointed out that linking their names to the story makes them look stupid. Hager apologized if FTR was upset with him, but insisted that the meeting he was talking about happened.