FTR’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have made a name for themselves as one of the best tag team duos in professional wrestling. However, while they may already be in rarified air, the duo thinks they have more to accomplish.
“I don’t think we’ve evolved…well, yes, we’ve evolved, absolutely, but that’s because we got the opportunity to evolve,” Harwood said in a recent interview with PWInsider’s Mike Johnson when asked if he believes the team has evolved since making the move to All Elite Wrestling. “We’ve always stayed true to what we believe in, to our work and the professional wrestling that we enjoy and love, and the seriousness and things like that, but I think the evolution comes from having the opportunity to evolve, to be able to speak, being given the mic for a minute, we have that opportunity now. Or going and having a tag team match for 20 minutes, we have the opportunity to evolve, and that’s the biggest compliment that we can get as a talent is they trust us enough. As far as being satisfied, I put up a tweet that said I wasn’t satisfied and absolutely not, if I was satisfied I’d quit professional wrestling and sit home with my family. I’m absolutely not satisfied with where my career is right now.”
Harwood went on to talk about how when he and Wheeler eventually do decide to retire, he wants to know that he is satisfied, and as of yet, he’s not checked enough boxes off as accomplishments for him to be satisfied yet.
“At the end of the day, when me and Cash decide to hang the boots up and who knows, that could be in 6 months or in 6 years, but whenever we decide that, then come back and ask me if I’m satisfied,” said Harwood. “We have absolutely not checked off all the boxes that we want to in AEW or professional wrestling. Right off the bat, I want a rematch with the Young Bucks. I think we have a lot to prove and I think that they and ourselves, but I think they owe it to the fans to give a rematch to show who is the best tag team of this generation, that’s what I want. Again, the AEW World Championships obviously is the goal for every single tag team, and we had a small little run with that, but I want a run where I can prove and Cash can prove that there is no other tag team that can match up with us in the ring, on the mic with the ratings as well, so absolutely I’m not satisfied. Am I happy in AEW and what we’ve accomplished? For sure, 100%. Am I satisfied? I won’t be until the day I retire.”
As for Wheeler, he believes that they’ve been given the chance to evolve and are making the most of it, and it has a lot to do with AEW’s stronger tag team division, and the fact that the duo has more on-screen team to showcase their talents.
“Yeah, I think we’ve gotten an opportunity to evolve because we’re put in these programs that are with guys like Jericho, Punk, Mox, Sting, Darby, and we’re given 30 minutes to go out there and have these matches, where we can tell these main event stories and have these longer TV matches that get to showcase a wide array of what you can do and what you’re capable of instead of trying to stay within this box of, “OK you got 8 minutes, 2 for the entrances, we need a commercial break and then we got this, we kinda gotta keep it short and quick,” said Wheeler. “Now it’s like, “OK, you guys have 20 minutes, go out there and you’re out there with these guys,” and it’s opportunities like that where I think we get to show what we have always said, that we can hang with the best of them, we are the best, we can go out there with any of the top guys, any of the names and we can go out there and have a 30-minute classic with them and that’s because we are the best tag team of our generation and we’re evolving now because we are becoming that tag team that does that, and it’s not often you see a tag team that gets to that level but it’s not often that you see a tag team like FTR.”
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