FTR member highlights what went wrong in AEW Tag Team division; reveals plans for 2025
FTR is one of the best tag teams in AEW, and they've built a great legacy already. Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have been in the game for a long time and have clearly given a lot to the Jacksonville-based promotion.
Dax Harwood is very knowledgeable about wrestling, and when he speaks, he usually makes a lot of sense. He recently opened up on what went wrong for the tag team in 2024.
He pointed out how they saw their main agenda as pushing people who were not well known into the AEW spotlight. He was speaking on 3NT Wrestling when he said:
"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." [H/T Fightful]
Dax Harwood lays out future plans in AEW
In the same interview, the AEW star laid out his plans for 2025 and said that he wants to remind everyone how great a tag team FTR really is.
"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," he said.
Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler have gone through a turbulent 2024 and will hope that 2025 brings them some good news. It will be interesting to see what Tony Khan's plans are for them in AEW's new era.